Key Information: Tour Duration: 3
- 5
day(s) Group Size: 4
- 16
people Destination(s):Ecuador Specialty Categories:National ParksCultural Journey Season: January - December Airfare Included: No Tour Customizable: Yes Minimum Per Person Price: 799 US Dollar (USD) Maximum Per Person Price: 999 US Dollar (USD)
This is the homeland of alpacas, vicuñas, and wolves also home of the Purahá Indian Nation. Our exclusive treks open to our clients a new experience while we support local communities, our guides are specially trained by the Secretary of Environment to offer outstanding lectures and a deeper meaning to your visit.
Program includes one night in Baños, one night at Hacienda Chuquipogyo and one optional night at an Indian community in the base of Chimborazo with all meal at the community. Following the steps of Humboldt and Whymper.
After an early departure we get into the Cotopaxi National Park, This is the habitat of the Andean Condor and the Ecuadorian Hillstar hummingbirds. Various treks at different altitudes will give the opportunity to see unusual flora and fauna of the upper Andes and a final effort will take you up to the Snowline and Glacial at 4800 m.
Following the course of the mighty Pastaza River into the Amazon Basin we offer a hike down into the Devil’s waterfall. This is a land of orchids and waterfalls as vegetation blast. There is private reserve that gives us a feeling of the Jungle and it’s different people.
The main course of the journey is the two-day stay at the Indian Communities in the domains of the Chimborazo. Two major treks in the flanks of the Volcano will cover all travel expectations. The first 4-hour altitude trek will take you to see to Black Stone where you will feel at the top of the world and then on to the "Lonely Tree" or Machai Temple, the closes tree to the sun on earth. At night you will be host at the real Indian Community either at the community center or at their straw and adobe huts.
On the second day we have a half-day trek to meet the "Ice Peckers". People that dig pieces of a 2 million years old Glacial and then sell it at the market with fruit juice, Indians feel they are drinking a small portion of the soul of the mountain.
