Arriving in a place you’ve seen so well covered and narrated by David Attenborough creates a strange feeling, everything is completely new and yet somewhat familiar at the same time. The result being you’re still not prepared for what you experience and it feels overwhelmingly surreal to actually be there …
Category: Ecuador
Hiking the Quilotoa Loop
The Quilotoa loop is a self-guided hiking trail, high in the Andes in the Cotopaxi region of Ecuador. You can choose from many different route options depending on how many days you’d like to be on the trail. Our itinerary looked like this …
Mindo
Getting there Jorge our guide who drove us up to the mouth of the volcano outside Otavalo gave us some advice on stops in Ecuador. We had Mindo in our list of places but our intended next stop at the time was the city of Quito – largely due to geography reasons and it being …