Cotopaxi's volcano views and the waterfalls of Baños, in one private day.
A private full-day tour combining Cotopaxi National Park's bird-favored lagoon with the town of Baños — known for Salasaca weavers, views of Tungurahua Volcano, the Agoyan Waterfall, and Ecuador's famous Tree House swing.
Since this is a private tour, your personal needs and pace can easily be accommodated across this long, two-region day.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private hotel pickup in Quito.
Stroll around a highland lagoon favored by native birds, with Cotopaxi Volcano in view.
Encounter Salasaca Indian weavers and their craft at a local market.
Take in views of Mount Tungurahua from the town of Baños.
See the Agoyan Waterfall, one of the region's most dramatic cascades.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private full-day tour combining Cotopaxi National Park's bird-favored lagoon with the town of Baños — known for Salasaca weavers, views of Tungurahua Volcano, the Agoyan Waterfall, and Ecuador's famous Tree House swing. Since this is a private tour, your personal needs and pace can easily be accommodated across this long, two-region day.
Baños de Agua Santa sits at around 1,820 meters on the northern foothills of Tungurahua Volcano, and it's long been known as Ecuador's "Gateway to the Amazon" — the last town in the mountain region before the road drops down into the Amazon basin. Long before Baños became a tourist destination, Indigenous peoples already visited the area to bathe in its thermal springs, which local tradition attributed to Mama Tungurahua, the volcano itself; Dominican priests built the town that grew around those springs after the Spanish arrived in the mid-1500s, and the name Agua Santa — "Holy Water" — stuck.
Tungurahua itself is no backdrop detail: the volcano entered an active eruptive phase in 1999 after roughly 80 years of dormancy, with ash explosions and lava flows that, for years, were visible from the town below. Rather than scaring tourism away, Baños reinvented itself around the volcano's activity, adding canopy lines, paragliding, and dedicated viewpoints for watching Tungurahua from a safe distance — a shift that helped cement the town's reputation as Ecuador's unofficial "Adventure Capital." That same volcanic geology is also why the area has more than 60 waterfalls packed into a relatively small radius, including the Agoyán Waterfall this tour visits, with many of the best-known falls strung along the 58-mile Ruta de las Cascadas cycling route that starts in town.
The Salasaca people, encountered at the market on this route, are a distinct Indigenous highland community whose ancestors are believed to have migrated to this part of Ecuador from the Bolivian altiplano generations ago, settling in and around the town of Salasaca between Ambato and Baños. They're internationally recognized for their weaving, still largely done on traditional looms, producing everything from everyday woolen clothing to elaborate storytelling tapestries that depict Andean legends and daily life — a living craft tradition, not a staged performance for visitors.
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