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ACTIVITIES OF INTEREST FOR SHORT AND LONG HOLIDAYS IN ECUADOR

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Ecuador has many touristic places for visit, is a worderful and perfect place for enjoy the short and long holidays. The tourist can find many options of activities for doing during the holidays, they can choose from nearby places up to the most distant places. Ecuador has four worlds in an alone place, where the tourist can enjoy their stay in Higthland, Coast, Amazon Region and Galápagos Island. The place that they choose will depend on the type of tourism that they want to do. Ecuador offer many options for assure the stay and comfort of the tourists.

Holidays in Ecuador mostly originate from the Catholic religious calendar.

These holidays have, however, blended with indigenous traditions that existed before the arrival of the Spanish. A few other major holidays celebrate Ecuador’s hard-won independence from Spain, with national celebrations and regional festivals. (Anywhere, n.d) ACTIVITIES FOR A SHORT HOLIDAY IN ECUADOR There are many activities that a national and international tourist can do during its stay in this country, there is a lot of cities with several tourist offers of which we are going to mention some of the most important.

Ambato Ambato is a city that has much that to offer when we are speaking about cultural tourism, museums, houses and homes of historical figures who now open the doors in order that the tourists and visitors learn a little bit more of the history of this city. (Touristic-Ecuador, 2016).

Ambato has many options for doing in a holidays, the most important activities for doing is visit the houses and homes of historical figures, visit the church’s and the historical parks, where you can find an cultural information about each place..

Baños de Agua santa The city of Baños is famous for its great variety of practicing extreme sports like cayoning, puenting, rafting, etc., and also the tourists can have walks in bicycle or in popular touristic buses called “chivas” across the route of the waterfalls.

The more attractive church that Baños possess is the " basilica of the Virgin of the Rosario of Holy Water " and also the visitors can take a refreshing bath in the swimming pools of thermal waters (Travel, 2016)

Cementerio de Tulcán A maze of cypress trees – sculpted into bulbous, preColumbian totems, mythological figures, animals and geometric shapes – lines graves and mausoleums ornamented with candles and plastic flowers. Bushes and hedges take shape as they’re trimmed by the son of the original topiary master and another artist. (planet, n.d). In this place the tourist can visit the tombs of illustrious prominent figures, they can to cross the labyrinths, to look at the art in the cypress trees and take a photographies. In the center of the city they can find many small restaurants where they can taste the tipically food of this place.

ACTIVITIES FOR A LONG HOLIDAY IN ECUADOR Cuenca This city possesses a market of crafts where the manufacturers offers its articles of, ceramics, iron, between others. In addition the tourists in November can meet the Festival of the baked pork and of the “Fritada�, in the park Paradise and also cultural parades along the principal streets of the city. (Travel, 2016). In cuenca the tourist can do many activities, such us: visit the historical places,visit the National Park of Cajas and enjoy of their cultural festivities.

Portoviejo In Portoviejo's the principal tourist attraction is in Crucita's beach, There the tourists can fly away in parapente, in coastal cities as Portoviejo, Santa Elena, Salinas, the tourists can enjoy an excellent marine gastronomy, a great variety of seafood and the prices they are very accessible, besides that its attention to the tourist always will be with the intention of making the visitors experience the best (Touristic-Ecuador, 2016). In this place the principal activities for doing is visit the beaches and practices a different water sports such us : kitesurfing ,surf and windsurf

Galápagos Island The Galapagos Islands area situated in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 km from the Ecuadorian coast. This archipelago and its immense marine reserve is known as the unique ‘living museum and showcase of evolution’. Its geographical location at the confluence of three ocean currents makes it one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world.

Ongoing seismic and volcanic activity reflects the processes that formed the islands. These processes, together with the extreme isolation of the islands, led to the development of unusual plant and animal life – such as marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, giant tortoises, huge cacti, endemic trees and the many different subspecies of mockingbirds and finches – all of which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection following his visit in 1835. (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2001). In Galápagos Island the tourist can visit the nineteen island where can find many activities such us : water sports, visit the flora an fauna, visit the turtles, the sea turtles iguanas, penguins, flemings and many animals more.

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