Private Tour: Middle of the World Monument and Quito City Tour

Private Tour: Middle of the World Monument and Quito City Tour

Enjoy a charming tour to the monument of the Middle of the World in Quito. This historic place is full of life and colors and it is located at parallel zero marking he division between the northern and southern hemispheres as established by the French Geodesic Mission in the eighteenth century. You will also visit the Inti Ñam museum, crossed by the parallel zero, where you are going to learn about the magnetic forces that the platet applyes on us on the different hemispheres and more.

Your tour begins with hotel pickup from centrally located hotels in Quito. You will board a private vehicle and head to visit one of the most important historical places in Quito: The biggest Old Town in Latin America and The Middle of the World Monument. You will first visit the Old Town and then you go to the monument and the museum.

First you will visit some of Quito's main landmarks including old town and its churches and plazas such as La Compania, San Francisco, Basilica and the government palace.

Then, you will go to the monument which is known as "Mitad del Mundo" and is part of the Metropolitan disctrict of Quito. At the complex, you will see and visit several attractions including the monument itself, the Ethnography Museum and several handicraft shops and restaurants. Stand in the Equatorial line and take memorable pictures as you are in the middle of the world.

On the second part of the tour, you will visit the Inti Ñam museum, also with several atractions and activities like The Solar Cylinder Or “Acoratene”,Indigenous huts, magnetic line 00°00’00”, The Burial Mound, The Solar Laboratory, Stone For The Four Seasons, and more.

After a wonderful tour, you will be taken back to your hotel.