Manta & Montecristi: Fish Market, Hat Weaving & Chocolate TourYou’ll walk Manta’s lively fish market with locals, step inside boatyards and tagua workshops, try weaving hats in Montecristi, taste fresh Ecuadorian chocolate—and maybe find yourself thinking about all those small details long after you’ve left.
Montecristi & Rain Forest Tour: Panama Hats & MonkeysThis five to six hour tour from Manta covers Montecristi, Ciudad Alfaro, and Pacoche protected forest with a live guide in English, Spanish, French or German. You visit the fish market and boatyard in Tarqui, watch artisans hand-weave Montecristi hats, explore Ciudad Alfaro museum and the complex honoring ex-president Eloy Alfaro, and trek through forest habitat where howler monkeys, hummingbirds and the Machalilla frog—the world's second smallest—live. The tour includes bottled water, all fees and taxes, and air-conditioned vehicle pickup; a 500-meter forest trail in Pacoche is strenuous and requires running shoes and mosquito repellent.Is it for me?Choose this if you want to walk through market, craft workshops, and forest in one morning—the forest section requires sturdy shoes and a steady pace to reach the howler monkeys and native palms up close.
