Mountain Biking in the Ecuadorian Andes
(6 days, 5 nights
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Day 1. Quito - Cotopaxi National Park
After breakfast, we leave Quito and drive through the valley of the volcanoes to the Cotopaxi National Park. Arrival to Pedregal where we start our biking tour at 3200m and bike for around 3 hours (mostly uphill) in to the National park. Picnic lunch on route. In the afternoon we will reach the base of Cotopaxi where we will set up our campsite at 3800 m. Here we will have spectacular views of the Cotopaxi, Pasochoa, Sincholagua and Rumiñahui Volcanoes.
Day 2. Limpiopungo Lake - El Boliche - Albergue Cuello de Luna
From the campsite we drive to the parking lot of Cotopaxi at 4.600m and bike downhill towards Limpiopungo Lake at 3800 m. We continue biking to El Boliche in the northwest of the park, passing by pine tree plantations and Andean Páramo vegetation where Llamas and deer live. Birds like Falcons, Seagull and hummingbirds can also be seen here. Picnic lunch on route. From here we drive 20 minutes to a Mountain refuge at Cuello de Luna for accommodation and dinner.
Day 3. Saquisili - Sumbagua - Quilotoa Crater - Sigchos
After breakfast we drive up to the Páramo again to 3900m. In a very quiet and spectacular landscape (the valleys of the silence) via Saquisili- Sumbagua a small Indian village where we start our biking tour. We bike for about 1 hour to the Quilotoa crater lake where we shall have a picnic lunch and continue down hill passing Chugchilan until to Sigchos. Here the day adventure ends and we set up our campsite.
Day 4. Sigchos - Toachi River Canyon
After breakfast, we continue our Mountain Bike tour in the direction of the coast behind the Illinizas through the Toachi River canyon, carpeted by verdant tropical rain forest. The vegetation is changing at every step and also the climate will be getting warmer. We descend very quickly starting at the Páramo vegetation in the highland passing cloud forest, and eventually entering into the sub-tropical and tropical pacific coast climate. Picnic lunch on route and in the afternoon accommodation in a hotel.
Day 5. Valle Hermoso - Los Bancos
Today our adventure takes us from the Union del Toachi approx 50 km in 6 hours to Valle Hermoso. We will be passing by Alluriquin and Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Lunch on route and finally we drive to Los Bancos where we will spend our night in a Hotel.
Day 6. Los Bancos - Guagua Pichincha - Quito
After breakfast our tour leave los Bancos in the direction of Quito, via Tandayapa, Nono, Calacali and a secondary road. Most of the ride is uphill and the distance is approx 50 km. Behind the Guagua Pichincha we start biking for about 6-7 hours. In the afternoon we will finally arrive by Jeep to Quito.
Support transportation will assist all the way.
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