When we talked to the girl who "handles the tours" at our hostel in Quito, and mentioned that we would probably head to Latacunga to get info on the "Loop" situation rather than book one of her tours, she matter-of-factly said that we would find no such help there, and that Latacunga was a farm town with nothing in it. What a weird thing to say. I suppose it would be like some one from Boston saying that you couldn't even get a decent meal in the Upper Valley, VT/NH, because it's all cows and marijuanna up there. Turns out, we found a great hostel with super friendly and helpfull staff, who, instead of trying to sell us on a tour, just answered all of our questions and offered free information on different ways to access/approach the loop. Big ups to the Tiana Hostel in Latacunga, we mos def recommend. We found the Tiana by way of our Moon Travel Handbook, which has been so much more helpful than our Peru travel book from Insight Guides by Discovery Channel and was cheaper than the Lonely Planet option. I can now officially recommend Moon Handbooks (for Ecuador at least). But that's all the city was for us really, just a stop off point to gather info and move on. So, we did.
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