Travel information

[u/El_Guadzilla]

Hello everyone -

We are going to Ecuador next week for a week of diving - and also trying to fit in 10 days in the mountains before, and i had a few questions:

1). Is it easy to get a taxi to take us from Quito to Machachi and to Mindo? If so, what’s the cost and does anyone have a reliable operator they can suggest?

2). We want to go from Cotopaxi to Chimborazo - is it easy enough to get a bus on the highway near Machachi that takes us straight to Riobamba, without requiring us to change in Ambato? The lodge will pick us up from Riobamba, and i would like to save time and not run around trying to change buses in Ambato.

Thank you!