BIKING DOWNHILL COTOPAXI FULL DAY
Your choice of day.
This full-day tour leaves Quito in the morning. After a scenic hour and a half drive on the Pan-American highway, we will reach the entrance of Cotopaxi National Park. We will drive through the thick pine forest and soon reach the park’s museum. While here, we will see the museum’s holdings and savor a warm cup of ginger tea before continuing the ascent in a 4-wheel drive vehicle. Along this rou
te we will reach the highest point of the tour, an astonishing 500 meters/15,000 feet. On a clear day, the stunning view presents eight volcanoes.Afterward, dressed in helmets, gloves and protection pads, the bike adventure on the world’s most active volcano can begins! The first 8km of the ride will take us down 700m in altitude, traversing dirt roads through volcanic ash and páramo landscape. At 3.800m you will have to do some pedaling, continuing another 8km alongside volcanic rocks, with some luck we might see a wild condor or caracara. At this point we put the bikes on the jeep and head for the lake of Limpiopungo back up to 3.800m, where we resume biking for 16km, a leisurely downhill ride through pine forests and dirt roads. The bike adventure ends after 2km more on a beautiful single track road.