Private Cuicocha Hiking Day Tour
OVERVIEW
The Cuicocha Lagoon is the best natural treasure we have in the Imbabura Province. The last eruption of this volcano was 3100 years ago and it formed a krater at 3068m (10065ft) with a deameter of the caldera 12km. Two significative islands are part of Cuicocha Lagoon. The small one Yerovi and the biggest one Teodoro Wolf. The Cuicocha means Rainbow lagoon in Kichwa language. Join us and discover together this amazing place in Ecuador!
ITINERARY
This Private Cuicocha Hiking Day Tour starts from your location in Quito at 07.00 am. Our Private touristic Transportation and National Tour Guide certified by the tourism ministry will pick you up and then a drive in to the Panamericana Highway to the Imbabura Province where the Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve is located. In fact, We will do some stops on the way to buy traditional snacks (biscochos) or try some local stuff of the area. It will take us around two hours and half to get to the main entrance of the reserve 3050msnm. Once here, our guide will check in the visit and our Cuicocha Hiking day tour. After that, we will take a time for preparing our hiking gear before to start this nice hiking around the Cuicocha loop into the andes mountains. All this hiking will take us five hours 12 km (5,5 miles). The highest spot in the path is Las Orquideas viewpoint at 3590msnm where we have a time to relax and eat our Box lunch (half way) Finally after two and half hours more, we will come back to the same site we left. People take it as part of the acclimatization to try Cayambe or Cotopaxi Volcanoes.
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OPTIONAL Once we finish our Cuicocha hiking day tour, We can visit the Cotacachi leather town or Otavalo Indigenous market. Great time for shopping and then We will come back to Quito city around at 18:00 PM. End of our Private Cuicocha Hiking Day Tour
Private Cuicocha Hiking Day Tour
What do you need to bring?
hiking boots or trail shoes, Adjustable trekking poles.
Upper and lower body Synthetic t-shirt, Long-sleeved base layer, Softshell jacket, softshell pants. Rain Poncho
Miscellaneous Backpack 35lt, sunscreen, a sun hut, sunglasses UV protection water purification, personal items, camera, snacks.