Private Tour
Otavalo Market & Cuicocha Volcano Tour from Quito Andes Adventure
Overview
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The Otavalo Market with its colorful plaza de ponchos is one of the most important and popular indigenous markets in Ecuador and South America. Otavalo has a large indigenous population of Otavalos, where their mother language is Kichwa.
In the Otavalo Market, you can find typical food and several places where the Otavaleños sell their handicrafts, textiles, ponchos, blouses, shirts, hats, alpargatas, and handmade alpaca tapestries. The Otavalo market or Otavalo fair is fully active every Saturday, however, you can find a smaller number of vendors on other days of the week.
Additional Info
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Fabrica de Bizcochos San Pedro
Then we will go to Cayambe, here you can taste a biscuit or "bizcocho cayambeño" as a snack, it can be accompanied with dulce de leche or also called the delicacy of milk and with leaf cheese, chocolate or coffee, the traditional food of Cayambe.
San Pablo Del Lago
Miralago Viewpoint : Leaving Cayambe we go to the Miralago viewpoint located south of Otavalo, you can see a wonderful view of the Imbabura volcano and the Lagoon of San Pablo.
What‘s Included
Visit Otavalo Market
Bilingual Tour Guide
Miralago View Point
Entrance to Cuicocha Lagoon
Visit Bizcocho factory
Pick Up / Drop Off
Private Transportation
Breakfast
Lunch
Pickup points
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Private
Private Tour
Duration: 8 hours
Lunch
Quito-Imbabura-Quito: Quito-Cayambe-Otavalo-Quito
Jeep - Minivan
Place to Visit: -Bizcocho Tour
-Miralago San Pablo
Otavalo Market
Peguche Waterfall
Cuicocha Lagoon
Cotachachi specialized in working leather
Pickup included
Shared Tour
Shared Tour - no lunch
Pickup included
Reviews
10 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
A must-do tour!
maddiesS7684FE,,Sep 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Andrés is a knowledgeable guide who taught us so much about Ecuador! I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how great our driver Jimmy was as well. My friend and I had a wonderful day exploring with them! Absolutely would recommend booking this tour to anyone.
Otalavo y Laguna Cuicocha trip
guillaumetO617TE,,Aug 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The trip was super good, the breakfast with the bizcochos, the cuicocha lake was amazing and Otavalo market was impressive Lucia and Veronica were super helpful and their explanations about the region were very interesting
Extraordinary experience!
Tourist29487595528,,Aug 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Extraordinary experience! We started tasting a delicious breakfast, Los Bizcochos and admire the panorama of Miralago. Then we went through Otavalo market, Catachi lagune and Catachi city. The tour guide, Chris, was amazing and nice. He deeply explain us everything about Quito environment, population and culture. 5 stars for him!
Fantastic trip to local market and beautiful nature.
Helge B,,Jul 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Very nice trip to a very nice market. This is South America's largest outdoor market. Also got to stop at the original center of the world, and taste very good biscuits 😁
Otavala Market
Martedal,,Jul 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great trip to the Otavalo market. Andrés was a wonderful guide who shared so much history and stories about Equador and the area. A great day tour from Quoto.
Francisco was an amazing...
Vicki F,,Mar 19, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Francisco was an amazing guide! His vehicle was roomy, clean and comfortable. With our initial outline of activities, Francisco worked with us to customize the stops and the length of time at the stops, so that the day was truly everything we wanted! Fransisco was a wealth of information, and shared so much about Ecuador and each of the places we visited. We would definitely use Franciso again and highly recommend both him and the tour.
Just WOW!
C3896UGjuliea,,Jun 5, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Wow, what an amazing tour in the safe and very knowledgeable hands of Pedro our tour guide. He was amazing and really ensured we had the very best day out. Thoroughly recommend the tour but particularly with Pedro. Thanks
A full on day of fun, food and exploring!
Andrew B,,Jan 29, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had a fun day with David (we left Quito at 08:10 and arrived back around 20:30, so bear timings in mind!), first going to Cayambe town right on the equator to try some delicious bizcocho biscuits. Also stopped here to buy some Andean tea. Then on to a viewpoint of Otavalo volcano and the lake near San Pablo del Lago before going to the market. After this we had a 3 course lunch (drinks are extra) in Cotacachi. We then walked around some of the Laguna Cuicocha with wonderful views. We headed back to to Cotacachi for a quick tasty surprise before heading home. David was very enthusiastic, knowledge and fun and enjoyed telling us about his country in good English. ¡Gracias!
10/10. Highly recommend all Real Dreams Tours.
zo h862,,Aug 14, 2022
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00An excellent day trip! Highly recommend!! On our holiday in Ecuador we decided to book a day trip to Mindo with Real Dreams which was amazing. We loved our day so much that we decided to book a second day tour with this fantastic company to Otavalo. We were picked up promptly from our hotel and driven safely to all stops. We tasted traditional biscuits, went to a view point, visited Otavalo market, had lunch, went to a waterfall, saw a stunning lake and finished in a small village with traditional leather goods before being dropped back to Quito. We had such a great time and felt we got to see so much! We learnt a lot from our helpful guides and were able to ask many questions. We loved both our trips with real dreams and thanks to Carolina and Pedro for making it so memorable.
It was a ROCKING day!
matthew c,,Oct 9, 2021
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My favorite part of this tour was my guide Pedro! He was on time, full of energy, great English skills, good sense of humor, knew exactly where he was going, drove flawlessly and allowed me to just enjoy myself ALL day! I found the actual market experience to be a bit underwhelming as many of the wares seemed to be overly redundant and wanted to be talking to artisans versus hawkers. But I found one young jewlery maker who made the trip worthwhile and the lunch I was treated to was fabulous. We visited a waterfall walk that was nice, moved to Cotacachi (leather central) which was a cute little town and then bought 24 stunning roses for $2 (how is that possible?) and back to Quito! I can't rave enough about how this all went so seamlessly.
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