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Real Montecristi hats
Manta's highlights & Montecristi
Manta's highlights & Montecristi
Manta's highlights & Montecristi
Manta's highlights & Montecristi

Manta's highlights & Montecristi Hats

By Manta SOS
9 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$110 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 6h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Best prices, high quality! This tour will give you a sense of what locals experience everyday, you will learn about our education system, history, customs, culture, & cuisine.
You will learn how we build our fishing boats, fishermen may approach asking to take them with you on a picture posing and holding a big tuna while you visit the fish market; We will take you to one of the factories where we process “tagua” buttons, tonnes of these buttons get exported, so you might be wearing one right now, to complement this tour we will visit a chocolate bars factory, we will also show you how the Montecristi hats are woven, and how much work a weaver put into it, through a demonstration, in one of the artisan's shops, we will explain the process, right after, we will take you to the museum Ciudad Alfaro, which is full of art and history that you will be introduced to. On the way back, do not miss taking a picture of the weaving woman statue on the roundabout.

Activity location

  • Plage de Tarqui
    • Manta, Ecuador

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Terminal Portuaria De Manta
    • Manta, Manabí, Ecuador

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Manta's highlights & Montecristi
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • English

Pickup included

Starting time: 8:30 am
Price details
AU$109.60 x 1 AdultAU$109.60
Total
Price is AU$109.60
Language French and German
  • Activity duration is 6 hours6h6h
  • German

Extra fee : This prices apply to German and French guidance only
Pickup included

Starting time: 8:30 am
Price details
AU$148.27 x 1 AdultAU$148.27
Total
Price is AU$148.27

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll Fees and Taxes
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntries and plenty water bottled

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Specialised infant seats are available
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In case you are bringing a wheelchair, you need to notify this to us, otherwise we won't be responsible of not being able to take you on the tour.
  • If you require a guide that speaks another language other than English or Spanish, you will have to choose the option "Other languages"

Activity itinerary

Plage de Tarqui
  • 1h
Firstly we will visit the fish market fish market, at this point we will learn how our fishermen bring the fish in to our cost and table, then we will visit the boat factory, were you will see some of the fishing boats being built.
Plage de Tarqui
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Boatyard, where you will have the opportunity to see how the fishing boats are being built.
Tagua Store
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
We will visit a Tagua Factory, where we will learn how the tagua nuts or the vegetable ivory is processed into pieces that will be carved into nice buttons or figures.
Montecristi
  • 30m
Hat weaving demonstration: We will witness an artisan weaving, ironing, shaping, and pressing a hat, we will tell you how a hat is made from the very beginning of the process.
Museo Ciudad Alfaro
  • 2h
We will visit, Ciudad Alfaro, a complex that was built in order to honour our ex president Eloy Alfaro, who regardless of being a wealthy man, he fought agains the inequality in 1895, and where we singned our last constitution in 2008. Then we will visit a shop, where we will be shown how we weave the Montecristi hats, and you will have time to shop and look around city centre.
Manta
  • 30m
Chocolate factory. In this visit we will learn a little bit of high quality chocolate bars, an opportunity to taste the different products and bring some souvenirs with you.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESPlage de Tarqui
    • Manta, Ecuador

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLETerminal Portuaria De Manta
    • Manta, Manabí, Ecuador

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