Tigua: Only recently accepting of outsiders, the Indians of this remote valley live a traditional life style, farming spectacular, almost vertical fields and traveling once a week into one of the local markets, to trade their produce hike through an area that would have looked the same a thousand years ago!

Cotopaxi: The spectacular lajars and bolder fields that surround the active volcano of Cotopaxi enable the hiker to travel the high paramo, camp at night, and savor the mountains while crossing this recently formed volcanic landscape.

The Condor Trek: Hiking up through the Antisana park the trail takes you across the grasslands of the high paramos,where you are more likely to see the Andean Condor and the Mountain Wolf than you are to see other travelers and comes out on the eastern edge of the Cotopaxi National Park.

Oyacachi Hike: Hiiking from the High Andes to the Amazon basin this trail follows an ancient trade route, along the valley of the river Oyacachi going from paramo, through the cloud forests and into the rainforest of the Amazon.

Hiking in the Andes: (Acclimatization)

• Pasochoa 4,200 meters (13,780 feet)
• Guagua Pichincha 4,700 m (15,739 feet)
• Corazon 4,700 meters (15,710 feet)
• Cayambe acclimatization hike 4,800 meters
• Iliniza North 5,200 meters (16,818 feet)

(all of them are located in the Acclimatization guide in the Climbing section)

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