Zaruma
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May to November for drier weather in the southern hills
- Budget
- $
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A gold-mining town draped over a ridgetop in the southern highlands, its steep lanes lined with elaborately carved wooden houses from the coffee and mining booms. Visitors tour an old mine tunnel beneath the town, sip locally grown highland coffee, and photograph the gilded timber church on the plaza.