🏨 Cotopaxi horseback riding & hiking experience Activity

Cotopaxi horseback riding & hiking experience

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From $125.00

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 8 hours

Departs: Quito, Quito

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

This is not the typical horseback riding experience with tired horses neither exploted animals. This is the only experience that takes place inside the national park. Getting to the base camp is the most beautiful and challenging thing you will ever do.

What's Included

Driver guide

Private transportation

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 7 - 12
YOUTH: Age: 13 - 17
ADULT: Age: 18 - 58

Additional Info

Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

What To Expect

Cotopaxi Volcano

Our horseback riding takes place at The Cotopaxi N.P is located inside a súper Volcano called Chalupas.

We will start from your accommodation placement if it's only you the only participant otherwise we Will set up a meeting point according to all participants locations.

We start at 7 or 8 am depending on weather conditions or week day. We will departure in south direction passing by the ✔️AVENUE OF THE VOLCANOES. After one hour we would already enter to the National Park where we plan to stop by ✔️ AGUA LONGO spot to see the prints left by the last Volcanic activity.

Then we will pass by ✔️LIMPIOPUNGO lake that is a glaciars origin lake. Then we Will pass by the ✔️STONES VALLEY where a huge amount of small and big rocks show the powerful of the volvanic activity caused ✔️COTOPAXI. Then our horses will be waiting for us. Hopefully we will see wild horses during the riding. Then we Will take the car to the 4700 meters to start a 1 hour hiking to the Shelter.

• Admission Ticket Free

Laguna de Limpiopungo

Beautiful lagoon inside the Cotopaxi National park which is origined by the water streams coming down from one of the other volcanoes inside this National park. Home of some birds as the Andean gulls and cara caras.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cotopaxi National Park

Beautiful national park full of amazing landscapes as the stones valley and also big communities of wild horses.

5 hours • Admission Ticket Included

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