Tambopaxi Cotopaxi
Parque Nacional Cotopaxi Cotopaxi, Ecuador
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Illiniza Norte and Cotopaxi
After a few days of acclimitizing in Quito and climbing on Rucu Pichincha (4627m /15176ft), Garth, Perry and I (Mike) headed out to climb Illiniza Norte (5230m /16813ft) and Cotopaxi (5897m/19342ft). The plan was to sleep at the Nuevos Horizontes Refugio at 4765m (15629ft) and shoot up the scramble route on Illiniza Norte. This was an acclimitizing …
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Quito, Cotopaxi and Atacames
... and men dressed up as women...
7) And New Years is tonight! Pretty excited to see all of the effigies burned in the center and all the men running around in dresses. Another traditional holiday meal tonight around 7:30p and then after heading into town. From the sounds of it, New Years is a much bigger deal here than Christmas so it should one for the memory books :)
Happy New Year and bring on 2012!!
Corrie <3
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Laguna Quilotoa
On the way there I saw for the first time several volcanoes. During my travels in November 2010 and April 2011 I didn't get the chance to see them as it was always bad weather. So today I was lucky and got to saw the Pichincha, Cotopaxi, El Corazón, Chimborazo, Tungurahua and some others of which I have already forgotten the names!
When we arrived at the Laguna Quilotoa, at 3914 masl the sun was ...
Annas Wunderkamera
... wenigstens noch ein paar Erinnerungs-Bilder machen zu können. Aber in ganz Latacunga gibt es nur ganz billige Modelle, auch annähernd kein Ersatz für eine supertolle Spiegelreflexkamera...
(Die folgende Szene müsst ihr euch folgendermassen vorstellen: Der Himmel ist schwarz bewölkt, Donner grollt und ein schwerer Regen kommt näher - ist über uns - ist überall.)
Traurig setzten wir uns im Hostal aufs Bett, und beschlossen - nach ...
Cotapaxi and Quilotoa
... water. The weather that day was fantastic, with the sun lighting up the green hills and valleys which stretch most of the way to the crater. Once at the crater we stopped for a few photos, before heading down to the lake. The path was very steep and very sandy, so we seemed to slide a large part of the way down. We then relaxed near the lake edge for a bit, before making the long hike back to the top of the crater. We were expecting it to be really ...


