April 16 to April 25, 2011

Saints, incorrupt bodies, Sacred Music concerts, processions and old world Catholic culture…….

YOUR TRIP INCLUDES:

  • Round-trip air from Miami Airline FUEL SURCHARGES INCLUDED (up to $330)
  • 9 nights in hotels ( www.orilladelrio.com.ec, www.abraspungo.com.ec, www.hotelrelicariodelcarmen.com )  with private baths
  • Two meals a day (normally Breakfast and Dinner)
  • Wine with dinners
  • Assistance of a professional local Catholic guide(s)
  • Transfers as per itinerary
  • Sightseeing and admissions fees as per itinerary
  • Catholic Priest available for Spiritual Direction
  • Daily Mass in a Traditional Rite & Spiritual activities
  • All ground transportation and flight from Quito to Guayaquil) .
  • Luggage handling (1 piece per person)

Not Included: Airport taxes (approx. $150, subject to change), one meal a day. Travel Insurance, Tips to your guide & driver ($2-5 per day). Incidental expenses at hotels.

31 March     Arrive at the Guayaquil, Ecuador airport and transfer to your hotel Orrila del Rio (www.orilladelrio.com.ec/).

April 1     Palm Sunday Early Morning Tridentine Mass at 8:00 at Santa Teresita Church (www.steresita.com). We will have a breakfast at the hotel followed by the Palm Sunday Procession in downtown Guayaquil starting at the Cathedral.  We have a lunch on the boardwalk at Guayaquil and an afternoon tour of the historical and botanical gardens.

April 2    Early morning Tridentine Mass at Santa Teresita followed by breakfast at the hotel. We then depart by bus for Riobamba arriving at lunch and check into our hotel Abraspungo (http://www.abraspungo.com.ec). We then will have a walking tour in the afternoon of the city of Riobamba and its historical churches, plazas and monuments

April 3     After our breakfast we will depart on the bus for the churh of Balbanera which is the oldest church in Ecuador and a visit to Nuestra Señor del Buen Suceso.  We then have lunch in Riobamba followed by the procession in the streets of Nuestra Señor del Buen Suceso. We return to the hotel by late evening.

April 4     After our early breakfast we check out of our hotel and travel by bus directly to Quito. After a box lunch on the bus we check into our hotel Relicario del Carmen (www.hotelrelicariodelcarmen.com) and then experience “In the footsteps of La Dolorosa” (which today is the feast day) with visits to the impressive Jesuit Church La Compania and site of the original miracle. Then board our bus again for the San Gabriel School to visit the actual resting place of the original image.  We return late afternoon to our hotel. Sacred Music concert offered at La Compania church in the evening.

April 5     After breakfast we will take our “In the footsteps of Garcia Moreno” tour where we will learn the important life of this exemplary Catholic leader and the sites where he spent not only the last day of his life but where his body was secretly hidden for 100 years.  This tour includes the magnificent Plaza Grande (assassination site), The Cathedral (where he expired), and the Monastery of Santa Catalina (where the body was hidden).  Lunch provided and Sacred Music concert offered in the Cathedral in the evening.

April 6     Good Friday After breakfast we will take a tour of the Monastery of Our Lady of Good Success with visits to the grave of the incorrupt body of Venerable Mother Mariana, the site of the apparitions in the upper choir loft and the original miraculous image. After our tour we have lunch then participate in Latin Americas largest Good Friday procession “Jesus del Gran Poder”.

April 7     After breakfast we will tour Monastery San Francisco and the Carmelite Monastery of Carmen Alto where we will have lunch. We then will check out of our hotels for an afternoon flight back to Guayaquil at 15:35 and check back into our original hotel there.

April 8     Easter Sunday     Early morning breakfast followed by a trip to Nobol and the church where Santa Narcisa de Jesus  incorrupt body is enshrined. We return back to Guayaquil for a a noon Tridentine Mass at the church of Santa Teresita. We then have our Easter Sunday banquet and afternoon free.

April 9     Check out of hotel and transfers to airport in Guayaquil.

Single Supplement/Private Room $357