Get your bike ready and join our cause.
From September 16 to 22, the International Sustainable Mobility Week is celebrated worldwide, an initiative that promotes environmentally friendly forms of transportation such as cycling, walking, and the right to decent public transportation.
Within this celebration, there is a varied agenda of citizen activities and we are pleased to announce that the second “Ilaló de Vuelta” Cycling Tour is part of it; as well as the local celebration promoted by the Safe Mobility Coalition Ecuador.
For the second “Ilaló de Vuelta” Cycling Tour, we will meet on Sunday, September 17th at the Tola Chica Church and pedal to La Merced Park, where there will be cultural, artistic, and educational activities. The “Ilaló de Vuelta” cycling tours aim to protect and recover Ilaló through the creation of a permanent cycle path around this volcano. Don’t miss out and join this citizen action!
We have designed 3 simultaneous routes, be part of any of them, see the map in the link here: https://shorturl.at/fFPR9.
We share the itinerary:
08:00 Meeting at the Church of La Tola Chica https://shorturl.at/inxJ6
08:30 Departure of the long route group (24 km asphalt)
09:00 Departure of the intermediate route group (15 km asphalt – cobblestone)
09:00 Meeting in El Tingo (outside the pool).
09:30 Departure of the short route group – family (6 km asphalt) El Tingo – La Merced (joins the long route group and they advance together).
All circuits will arrive from 10:30 am at the Central Park of La Merced, where we will have educational tents in which we will tell you about the importance of the Ilaló volcano.
How to get to the meeting points?
To celebrate Mobility Week, here we share the most sustainable mobility alternatives. If you don’t have a way to get to the Tola Chica Church, don’t worry, you have the following options to go with your bike:
Pichincha Prefecture Bus and Truck:
Departure:
Meeting place: Plaza de la República (Pichincha Prefecture: Arenas and Manuel Larrea)
Time: 06:30
Departure to Tola Chica: 07:00
Arrival at Tola Chica: 07:45
Return:
Place: La Merced Park
Time: 12:30
Departure to Quito: 13:00
Arrival at Plaza de la República: 13:45
You can register here: https://shorturl.at/fKL02, hurry, we have 30 places.
Buses @cooperativatumbaco and Termas Turis*
As in the first Cycling Tour, these two bus cooperatives take you and your bike.
Río Coca – La Tola Chica: Cooperativa Tumbaco, La Morita route.
From 06:00, every 15 minutes.
Playón de la Marín – El Tingo, La Merced and El Nacional route (in both cases, get off at El Tingo)
From 06:00 every 15 minutes.
Return:
La Merced – La Marín: Termas Turis, Playón route.
Every 15 minutes.
La Merced – Tola Chica: Termas Turis: El Tingo Route
Termas Turis transfer: El Tingo – El Nacional
Cooperativa Tumbaco transfer: El Nacional – La Morita (Tola Chica).
La Merced – Río Coca: Termas Turis: La Merced: El Tingo Route
Termas Turis transfer: El Tingo – El Nacional
Cooperativa Tumbaco transfer: El Nacional – Río Coca.
Not all buses have space to carry bikes, be patient, the next unit that has it will surely embark you. And if you don’t go by bike, Cooperativa Termas Turis will take you to and from La Merced. Map of the second Ilaló de Vuelta Cycling Tour: https://shorturl.at/inxJ6
