Cotopaxi

The Cotopaxi 🌋 was a altitude test and height record for Nadja and Vanbora and luckily they both succeeded.
You could drive up on 4500m with your car. Vanbora made it up to 4450m, on the last turn there was too much snow so we had to park there. Leki was not happy to stay back in the van, seeing all this snow around. But it was forbidden to bring dogs inside this park so we already felt bad bringing him along in the car. For crossing the park entry we had to attach him in the back of the van on the bed🙈
To reach the Jose Rivas refuge you had to walk around 1km with 350m height difference. With a slow and steady pace we had no problems to hike up there, and reached the refuge about 45min later. We were the first ones to arrive and even arrived before the staff. Unfortunately we forgot our money and couldn't taste a hot chocolate or a 'te de coca.' We really liked this hut, it was cozy and full of memories of other tourists. Our highlight was of course the climbing wall 🤗
As the weather was quite stormy we didn't have the best view of Cotopaxi but we nevertheless enjoyed this small adventure very much!Read more