Adventures near Quito - written by Eric Castro

Quito because of its geographical location can offer different kind of adventures. Bird watching, paragliding, rafting, mountain biking, hiking, tubing, climbing, are some of the different kind of adventure activities close to Quito, that you can enjoy just after to arrive and check in you Quito hotel.

Tour operators and also some hotels in Quito will help you in organizing trips in and around the city covering every detail as possible. They will also help you with the adequate equipment and transportation to any destination of your choice.

Very nice sites for adventure and nature travel activities surround Quito. Sites such as snow peak mountains, tropical forests, rivers and more.

Just imagine eleven volcanoes, active and none active, surround Quito. So if you like mountains and volcanoes you are in the right place.

Just one hour in a private transportation vehicle, you are at Choco Andes Cloud forest, with an incredible concentration of birds. This is a perfect place to do bird watching just go early so you can enjoy as much as possible.

Also as a mountain city, Quito is a very nice place to discover on bike, is important to be very smart to go in bike, because the car drivers doesn't respect the bikers. My recommendation is to ride outside the city or in the Metropolitano park a perfect place to do mountain biking.

For the mountain climbing lovers, Quito's surrounding volcanoes and mountains provide a magnificent training center, with eleven mountains over 4000 meters like Cotopaxi, Antisana, Illinizas, Sincholagua, Rumi�ahui, Cayambe, Guagua and Rucu Pichincha, Corazon, Atacazo, are a few of the very nice mountains and volcanoes which surround Quito.

Is very important to know that Quito is the main base for the major Adventure tour operators in Ecuador, so is the best place to start your adventure tour in Ecuador.

Quito is just 1 hour and a half from Amazon basin, so the Amazon rivers which are born in the Northeast Andes of Ecuador run strong and fast from the highland to the Amazon rainforest, creating a very nice place to do some rafting, in 2005 the Chaco and Quijos rivers located to the northeast of Quito were the trail rivers for the 2005 World Rafting Championship.

It means you will ride world class rivers in your kayaks and boats, its an amazing and stunning area, not massive tourist sites are developed and it's better to keep in that way to avoid the community changes.

We recommend Quito as your adventure travel beginning site, enjoy it and discover this Andes treasure and its surroundings.