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Latacunga
Travel Blogs from Latacunga, Ecuador
Quick stop
This is a top pick! We headed south from Quito to the town of Latacunga. Our plan was to do some of the Quilatoa Loop which is a 200km loop from here through the surrounding countryside walking, bus-ing or hitching between the small villages. The town itself didn't seem up ...
Travelling to Banos
This is a top pick! Travelled on the top of a bus for a couple of hours today before switching to the inside for a another 4 hours and several changes in bus. Narrowly missed being hit of the head from an overhanging tree but survived ! One of our fellow travellers shouted ...
Latacunga - Again!
... of debate as to risk trying or not, we realised that we did not have enough time left to acclimatise for Glenn to climb Cotopaxi. Latacunga was again a bad luck charm for us and we decided to head to Riobamba the next day. To make it worse (yes, worse ...
ZUMBAHUA, QILOTOA, CHUGCHILAN...
... plus vers le Sud, a Latacunga, toujours dans les montagnes andines equatoriales, mais, restons sages, a 3500 metres seulement !! Latacunga est a quelques 100 kilometres au Sud de Quito, située entre les volcans du Cotopaxi au nord et du Chimborazo ...
Quilotoa loop, off the beaten track
By taking local busses, cars, and even a ride in the milk truck, Melanie and I did a 3-days long tour in the Quilotoa area. Highlight are the unspoiled villages, women in beautiful indigenous clothing, and the beautiful crater lake. When ...
Laguna Quilotoa and Banos
... of us trudged back up to the top of the laguna (with many, many breaks) and from there split ways as they headed back to Latacunga and I was going to hike to a close-by village, Chugchilan. I think the hike would have been a lot easier if this dense fog ...
Latacunga, the highlands of Ecuador
We left the beaches and decided that we needed to see the highlands before we leave Ecuador. The bus ride to Latacunga was not too bad, about 6-7 hours in total. We arrived at about 10:00pm and took a taxi to the Hostel that we had a reservation ...
Quechua (ki-chou-ah)
... hostal en fonction du plus petit prix possible. Ville-camp-de-base pour de nombreuses ascensions de volcans (surtout le Cotopaxi), Latacunga a surtout des hostals pas mal chers. Sauf un... que nous avons osé essayer, et ce, malgré la face ...
Super fiesta i drobne straty finansowe
... polski jezyk i okazuje sie, ze mam szczescie spotkac kolejne 3 Polki. Szybka wymiana kontaktow i wskakujemy z Joramem w busa do Latacunga (za 2$). Po 2h jazdy docieramy do miasteczka, wcinamy pizze, pozniej znajdujemy hotel dla niego (bo poczatkowo ja ...
Quilotoa crater lake
... and travellers in general. The main reason for coming here was to visit the Quilotoa crater lake which is around 2 1/2 hours from Latacunga, nothing in SA journey terms. Once at the crater, you can either walk down to the lake and back up again or walk ...
Volcan
... not be sarpased either!!! Then after a quick, bumpy, interesting, scenic and cheap bus ride south from quito we arrived in latacunga. I was even a little sad to leave the big town of quito cos i met some interesting people there, even the crappy pool ...
Saquisili Market and Latacunga
I made it to the Saquisili Market and back to Latacunga. The Market was amazing- there were aisles upon aisles of unfamilar fruits, vegetables, foods, animals and off the wall items. Ì tried a number of new fruits and vegetables- my ...
Quilatoa: inside the volcano
... to attempt to reach the summit you have to go with an experienced guide) and just visit the crater lake of Laguna Quilatoa, also near Latacunga, instead. The village of Quilotoa and the lake of the same name are a couple of hours away by bus, on a road ...
Up the world's tallest active volcano
Yes, that's right: active volcano. I rolled into the town of Latacunga, just South of Quito, and went about trying to figure a way to get up near the crater of the Cotopaxi volcano within a day. Pretty mental, but after the high of seeing the ...
Back in Latacunga to catch my breath
Finished the Quilotola Loop yesterday afternoon... and it was OUTSTANDING! I am spending the day here in boring Latacunga to catch up on a few things including sleep!!! I am pooped! Tomorrow I will be heading South to Baños- lower altitude ...
Annas Wunderkamera
... Reise: Auf dem Weg zum Busbahnhof, um auf den Markt in Pujilí zu gehen, wollte Anna die schöne Kirche von Latacunga photographieren - und plötzlich ging gar nichts mehr: Die Kamera machte keinen Wank mehr, und auch nachdem wir alles rausgenommen und ...
Be sure to wear shoes or you might just Quil-a-toa
... If you answer is anyone else than your favorite CanonBalls, you are wrong. OK, I am supposed to be talking about Latacunga. Latacunga is a cool little city with Disneyland-like lights on the trees in the plaza. That’s definitely a thing in ...
The same as the Welland but in a volcanoe
In search of snow capped peaks I stumbled upon Volcanoe Quiltoa, which has a big lake in it`s crater, but is apperently still active, not sure about that one....but I decided to stay up there at 3500M for the night and took a walk down to the lake, ...
Cotopaxi
Huet simmer uf 4800M.u.M. go wandere bim Cotopaxi. De Gipfel isch bedeckt mit emene Gletscher, uf 5800m. Meh Text gits ...
Lost in the Andes
... ". Arriving at Latacunga, a base from which we could explore Cotopaxi (Volcano, 2nd highest peak in Ecuador) and Quilotoa (Volcanic lake filled crater). Latacunga itself, set amongst around 9 volcanic peaks is a pleasant enough colonial town with a ...
Cotopaxi
... and watching the mountain! We were starting to get a bit anxious with all 5897m of mountain looming over us! We returned to Latacunga to hire the mountaineering equipment we needed! It was pretty old and basic but it worked! And we thought that by the ...
The Cotopaxi Climb
Today was an adventure day... Our plan was to climb Cotapaxi and then go onto Latacunga from where we could visit Quilotoa tomorrow and so this meant leaving the relative ´safety´ of Quito and hitting the road. Cotapaxi is the second highest mountain in ...
Raining in Latacunga
... man run up to me, asking in panicked Spanish as if both of our lives depended on it, "WHERE ARE YOU GOING?? WHERE??" When I responded "Latacunga," he waved me over to a bus that was just on its way out of the station, and off we went. The bus stops ...
Cotopaxi, revisited
1st September 2009 Hotel rosim, latacunga, Ecuador (20 usd) It's warm and my face is burnt Ambato – lacatunga (42 kms) We could have made it to lacatunga yesterday but decided we would have 2 short days in anticipation of a couple of hard days as we ...
Latacunga!!
I left Quito on Friday with Bill and together we travelled to Latacunga which lies around 2 hours South of Quito on the Pan American highway. We arrived at the local bus terminal and took a $1 taxi into town and checked in to The Central Hotel ...
Latacunga
No big news today. We travelled to Latacunga which is a nice colonial town, which should be great tomorrow Saturday as it has one of the main street markets. We have checked into a lovely hotel which immediately reminded both of us of Bavaria in ...
Latacunga
... , we decided to move on from Quito. We left in the morning, catching a taxi to the bus station. Getting a bus to our destination - Latacunga was easy! We are starting to love the ease of catching a bus in South America! It was nice to sit on the bus ...
Quilotoa Loop
... you say milk truck, I think milk man delivering cold bottles of fresh milk to my door step. When you say milk truck in Ecuador they mean a truck, with a bucket or a large container of some sort- stopping at each and every farm house that has cows and ...
quilotoa loop / happy bday mum
so there´s a nearby loop you can do, going from one small town to another, with a cool lagoon called laguna quilotoa thrown in. this isn´t very touristy, and there were no gringos around at all. unfortunately i was pretty sick here for the second time ...