Presently (May 2007), there are 2 airlines servicing Loja: TAME and ICARO. A third line, SAEREO, used to service Loja, and might start doing it again in the coming months.

• From Quito, there are 4 daily flights from Monday through Friday: 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. The 2 airlines leave Quito around the same time in the morning, at about 06h00, and between 16h00 and 16h30 in the afternoon.There are less flights on Saturday and Sunday.
• From Guayaquil, there is one daily flight from Monday through Friday with TAME, at 13h00. There is no direct flight on Saturday nor Sunday.
• TAME flies with the largest airplane (jet powered), ICARO and SAEREO fly with smaller propeller planes.

• The cost of a one-way ticket QUITO – LOJA for adults varies between $ 59 (SAEREO, bought minimum 5 days before the date of the flight) and $ 76.18 (TAME).
• The cost of a one-way ticket GUAYAQUIL - LOJA for adults varies between $72.45 and $ 83.65 (TAME).

Please check the exact time schedule with the airline companies, your travel agent, or on the internet (see below for the homepages of the airlines). Flight schedules to and from Loja are rather frequently subject to changes.

Note that it is possible to make flight reservations via the Internet with TAME, but that it is not possible to actually buy your e-tickets if you have an internationally issued credit card, because TAME only accepts the Ecuadorian issued credit cards VISA and DINERS for payment of e-tickets.

AIRLINE	HOMEPAGE	Language	Reservation on-line possible ?	Telephone numbers in Loja
TAME	htttp://www.tame.com.ec/	Spanish English	Yes	(07) 2570.248
ICARO	http://www.icaro.com.ec/	Spanish	No	(07) 2585.955 (07) 2578.416 (07) 2573.734
SAEREO	http://www.saereo.com/	English	Not yet	(07) 2579.554

From LojaAirport

Loja airport is located in Catamayo, also called "La Toma", which is a 35 minutes’ drive from Loja.
From the airport, you can take a shared taxi or "taxi compartido" to Loja. The cost is $4 per person.
You can also rent the entire taxi, which costs about $15 to Loja, $45 to Zamora (Terminal terrestre), and $40 to “Cabañas Ecológicas COPALINGA”. Only some taxi drivers at the airport know our place.
We can also send a taxi from Zamora upon request, which is a bit cheaper ($40 to COPALINGA).

From Zamora

At the bus station or "Terminal Terrestre" in Zamora, you can take a taxi (“yellow cab” or “white pick-up truck”) to COPALINGA. Our place is located halfway (3 kms) on the road to the Podocarpus National Park. The place is locally also known as "El Oso". Most taxi drivers know the place, if not under the previous names, then as “donde viven los extranjeros, en la carretera al Parque”. The cost of the passage is $2,5.

From Loja

From the bus station (Terminal Terrestre) in Loja, you can take a bus to Zamora. We recommend the companies “Cooperativa Loja International” and “Nambija”. Other bus companies are “Yanzatza”, “Cariamanga” and “Viajeros”. Travel time is around one hour and thirty minutes; the cost of passage is $2.40 per person.

If you take a taxi from Loja to Zamora, the cost is about $25.

From Quito, Guayaquil or Cuenca

Direct : The bus company “Cooperativa Internacional Loja” offers a direct service from the cities of Quito and Guayaquil to Zamora; the “Viajeros” bus company offers a direct service from the city of Cuenca. There are only one or 2 direct busses per day to Zamora from these cities.

Via Loja : The alternative is to change busses in Loja. There are more bus companies servicing between Quito, Guayaquil or Cuenca and Loja, and the service is much more frequent, probably about one bus every hour from Cuenca for example.

The "Cooperativa Loja Internacional" also offers an “executive” service, which is faster than the regular service, and very safe.

The travel time to Loja from Quito is around fifteen hours, from Guayaquil eight hours and from Cuenca five hours.

The cost of transportation (15/10/05) for whichever of the companies is:

Quito - Loja $ 17.00 - Quito - Zamora $ 19.40

Guayaquil - Loja $ 10.00 - Guayaquil - Zamora $ 12.40

Coming from Loja, continue until the roundabout of the bus station (Terminal terrestre). At this roundabout, take a right turn, following the direction “Parque Podocarpus” mentioned on the signboard. Follow the paved road for about 50m, and turn right again, following the direction “Podocarpus”. (Do not take the direction “Bombuscaro”). After 10 m, the paving ends. Follow this road first through a more or less urban neighborhood, and then continue through a rural area.

After about 3kms from the roundabout, you will see a house and wooden tower on the left-hand side of the road, and a little bit further down on the right-hand side of the road, an iron gate with the COPALINGA logo. This gate is the entrance to the parking area of the cabins of the COPALINGA lodge.

It is possible to rent a car in Loja. This service is offered by:

• Hotel “Bombuscaro” telephone: (593) (07) 2589.293 or 257.7021; and,
• Hotel “Libertador” telephone: (593) (07) 2585.849