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Ecological Expedition: Llanganates National Park
offered by supplier M15945 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 4
day(s)
Group Size: 4
- 16
people
Destination(s):
Ecuador
Specialty Categories:
National Parks
Ecotourism
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: No
Minimum Per Person Price: 500 US Dollar (USD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1000 US Dollar (USD)
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Tour Itinerary:
Day 1: Accommodation and dinner on Hacienda Leito. We go out from Leito to 04:00 am until El Triunfo Parrish, where we will take the horses and the mountain equipment to start a walk of 5 hours following the course of the Muyo River and the cloud forest. We will be considerable impressed by the large, gracious trees which grow on the steep slopes on both sides of the river. The first rest and lunch is to 12:00 pm. Our walk will be until arriving to the first lagoon that it is to 4000m. Where we are going to spend a night at the camp
Day 2: Breakfast is at 06:00 am and then continue along the Brunner route for a walk of 2 hours. Here you can see for the first time the Peaks of Cerro Hermoso. We go down until to the Green River following the shorts of Laguna Negra where you can fish, have lunch, visit the waterfall and rest for one hour.
We follow our walk trough the rough moorlands and deep valleys until we arrive to the Cerro Hermoso on the shorts of Laguna Encantada. Here most of the park is covered by dense vegetation and the weather is mostly cold and rainy. Also you can see a beautiful waterfall and an spectacular view of this paradise that you can appreciate only here in this place. Fortunately we spent our second night.
Day 3: We have breakfast at 06:00 and check the equipment to go up to the highest peak of Llanganates that has 4571 m, crossing bigger stones of quartz, surrounded by an inexplicable and fascinating beautiful with fauna and flora never seen before and little know. We have breakfast at 06:00. There are mineral waters which are quite important to the mountain.
Here you can feel a sensation of mysterious, enchants that only this place has. Throughout history, explores and adventurers had been attracted to this area in search of the elusive gold of Atahualpa, which according to the legend is hidden in the Llanganates. We return to this area in the camp in the afternoon. Some of the miniature orchids of this area: Lepanthes biloba, Pleurothallis pentamytera and a Stelis.
Day 4: Then after the breakfast we get ready to return. Here you are able to obtain some spectacular and colorful photographs of this wonderful area. Pictures will be the most important treasure that you can carry on of Llanganates. We get to the Hacienda Leito approximately 06:00 pm.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- 2 nights Accommodation and dinner menu at the Hacienda Leito
- Transportation since Leito
- Tents and equipment for camp
- Alimentation
- 3 guide (2 specialist and 1 native).
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