Cotopaxi Tours Schedule

Your chosen tour guide will pick you up on it's car at your hotel or apointed meeting place at 7:25 in the morning.

You will drive aproximatelly 1 hour to Machachi, for a short stop a couple of pictures and some shopping. Arround 9 am everyone should be back on the car to start driving up the mountains!

We should arrive arround 10 am to the Cotopaxi National Park. In our way up the Guide will prove it's skill driving a 4x4 as the road is full of rivers you need to cross and very stip hills. 

At arrival to the National Park you will requiere to pay an entrance fee of $10 per person, this money helps the park to be well kept.

At this point we should be able to get a first glimpse of the Higuest active volcano in the world!

Away we go into the Cotopaxi National Park, wild horses are to been seen in the path up the volcano.

There are many routes up the hills, and this time if you wish you can ask the Tour guide to allow you to drive and try your 4x4 driving skills. For this an  alternative road will be taken, after done playing on the mud we will go back to the regular roads and continue our adventure.

Before taking the final road up to the parking lot (which is only a few meters away from the volcanoes snow) we can visit the laguna, .

A 40 minutes walk is usually requiered to arrive to the refujio, where will drink some hote chocolate, enjoy the view and play in the snow.

All the way to the volcano gives great oprtunities for pictures of don't forget to shoot some video and upload it to youtube!

This is the higuest active volcano in the world, you will be at 5500 meters of altitude over the sea level.

Two day tours with horseback riding can be scheduled with your choosen guide.

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