Excursions – Ecuador

The colonial center of Quito became the second UNESCO World Heritage site ever chosen. We will visit colonial churches and plazas on a walking tour of the Old City.

If you’ve ever wanted to be in two hemispheres at the same time, here’s your chance! We will visit the park astride the Equator before heading off to see the volcanic caldera at Pululahua

Our excursion into the eastern cloud forests will enable us to see hummingbirds and perhaps catch a glimpse of a masked trogon, one of the most colorful birds in all South America. Don’t forget your raincoat… Yanayacu ca be quite…

Our Amazon field camp is an amazing place, some five hours by canoe downriver from civilization. We will spend multiple days with native guides exploring the tropical rainforest.

Your chance to climb an active volcano (contingent upon local conditions).  We hike up the flank of the Tungurahua to see recent lava flows before returning to the spa town of Baños for a dip in a volcanic heated steam…

Cotopaxi is the second-highest volcano in all of Ecuador and arguably the most picturesque.  We will take a guided tour around the base of the volcano, taking us through windswept alpine tundra and lava flows past and present.

An opportunity to see a volcanic caldera up close and personal.  The Quilotoa Crater at 3,800 meters also bears the honor of being the highest caldera anywhere in the world.