Snow Capped Trek

(5 Days / 4 Nights)

Day 1: (SAT) Quito

Arrival in Quito and transfer to your hotel (meals on your own)   

Day 2:  (SUN)  Pintag
In the early hours of the morning, you will leave Quito on a one and a half hour drive to the rural area  of “Pintag” from where you will start your trek at 8,600ft. You will enjoy a moderate uphill walk through Haciendas and past typical Andean houses. The trek continues until you reach the Ubillus rural area where you will set up camp by a natural spring at 9,100ft.
 
Day 3: (MON) Sincholagua Valley
Today you will start walk through typical Andean vegetation on a beautiful scenic cobblestone road for about 2 hours, and continue walking through farmlands for about one hour. After your picnic lunch you will start a 3-hour uphill trek to a small valley and enjoy the beautiful sight of the Paramo landscape. You will continue uphill until reaching the slopes of the Sincholagua Mountain where camp will be set up at 12,450ft.
 

Day 4: (TUE) Sincholagua - Manantial

After an early breakfast, we start our trek uphill towards the highest pass (14,430ft) of our trek, and from here we start our descent passing through a native forest and highland Paramo vegetation with extraordinary views of the Cotopaxi (on clear days) as we continue our descent we will be able to see the Sinig Lagoon to our left, to then follow-on and across the Pita river in order to reach our camp at a great location surrounded by a few small hills and a small river that comes straight out of the bottom of one of this hills. Camp at the Manantial (12,360ft).

Day 5: (WED) Manatial/Cotopaxi National Park/Quito
After breakfast, we continue our trek for another 4 hours and reach the archeological site called Incahuasi, a beautiful plain lying between Sincholagua and Cotopaxi, before walking on to Rumiñahui (4,712m/15,455ft) and the Limpiopungo lake in the valley of Cotopaxi.  After lunch, a 2-hour drive, passing along the picturesque "Avenue of the Volcanoes" takes us back to Quito. 

Transfers to the airport or to your hotel are provided.