https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwo4036LOls
This link is a short video about our 3-day adventure in the Cotopaxi National Forest. The Secret Garden Hostel that we are volunteering for in Quito has a sister hostel in el Parque Nacional Cotopaxi where we were gifted one free night so that we could come back to Quito to promote this package deal for all the guests. We ended up loving el aire libra, dramatic peaks, and 24-hour river fed Jacuzzi so much that we extended our trip to Cotopaxi. There was a fire every night with 6 resident dogs, llamas, cows, horses, birds… You could pay to hike some of Ecuador’s highest peaks including the recently active Volcán Cotopaxi. Carmen and I are stingy as hell so we decided to do two free treks: a jungle climb that ends at two mossy waterfalls (we swam in snowmelt runoff), and Pasachoa (4,200 metres extinct volcano). They provided sweet mint tea and banana bread at the summit. The altitude was intense but a refreshing break from the bustle of Old Town, Quito.