Quilotoa Circuit & Latacunga Loop
Trip Start
Mar 24, 2006
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Trip End
Aug 26, 2006
Latacunga,
Ecuador
Saturday, April 22, 2006
basically an 8 hour bus ride with a stop in the middle and their is
heaps of tramping and horse riding that you can do. The place is really
beautiful and we spent a day here going to the Quilotoa laguna which is
a lake in an old volcano crater and then doing a 5 hour hike back to
our hostel.
The hike was really fun, we skipped going down into the crater as at
3800 meters the altitude would have made the walk back up really hard
and I'm still getting over my bronchitis. The walk to the hostel was
quite pleasant tho and the last bit was real fun walking down a cliff
through narrow channels in the cliff and over wooden Indiana Jones
style bridges. The most fun was right at the end where there was a mud
slip which covered about 5 meters of the path over a cliff which went
basically straight down. There was still rocks falling down and the
entire slip was moving downwards and we got to cross it. Which was
great because I really didn't feel like climbing back up that cliff.
Got some photos which I'll upload when I have the time.
We stayed at a hostel called 'Mama Hildas' in Chugchilan which was
great. All the furniture was carved from wood and it was a really nice
quite break after the hostel in Quito.
