Biking on Cotopaxi (ECU) - May 2/3
Back from the Galapagos on the main land we decided to go for a biking trip on the highest active volcano of South America: Cotopaxi (5911m)!
Well, it sound more challenging that it really was because this is the way we went up to 4600m:
And this is what we have seen of Cotopaxi... the top was covered in cloud unfortunately, but still very impressive!
And it was really cold up there, so Barbara and myself were nicely packed up when we started on the 1300m descent:
It doesn't really look like it but it was quite fun to bike down these mountain roads as fast as possible.
And this is the view on the way down:
By the way, I was very lucky about 10 days after this trip when I had a very early flight out of Quito on my way to Mexico City: this is the view of Cotopaxi form the plan just after take-off on that morning:
Well, it sound more challenging that it really was because this is the way we went up to 4600m:
And this is what we have seen of Cotopaxi... the top was covered in cloud unfortunately, but still very impressive!
And it was really cold up there, so Barbara and myself were nicely packed up when we started on the 1300m descent:
It doesn't really look like it but it was quite fun to bike down these mountain roads as fast as possible.
And this is the view on the way down:
By the way, I was very lucky about 10 days after this trip when I had a very early flight out of Quito on my way to Mexico City: this is the view of Cotopaxi form the plan just after take-off on that morning:
Peppo - 17. Mai, 16:44
