Cajas National Park Day Trip Including Lunch
Cuenca, Ecuador
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Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful natural places of Ecuador with more than 200 glacial lakes and a range of alternatives for hiking for everyone to enjoy the scenery of the Andean highlands.
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Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful natural places of Ecuador with more than 200 glacial lakes and a range of alternatives for hiking for everyone to enjoy the scenery of the Andean highlands.Cajas National Park is located 35km west of Cuenca, we'll need approx. 1-hour to arrive there.
This tour will visit 3 levels of height, the highest point on the route known as Tres Cruces located at 4,200 masl approximately where, if the weather allows us, we can enjoy the beautiful scenery and the guide will explain about the geological formation of the park.
Then visit the middle 3960msnm located in the area of Toreadora where we will walk about 3-hours depending on the pace of the group. The skirt along the trek will cross gaps and Polylepis forests and the guide will explain about moorland vegetation.
Then we will have lunch in a restaurant of the zone. Finally visit the lower part of the park, near Llaviuco to 3150msnm in a different ecosystem known as montage primary forest and have a walk around the lake for about 1.5-hour.
The guide can change the order of the visits but it'll lasts 8-hour approx. This tour includes pickup at your hotel as well as drop-off.
This tour will visit 3 levels of height, the highest point on the route known as Tres Cruces located at 4,200 masl approximately where, if the weather allows us, we can enjoy the beautiful scenery and the guide will explain about the geological formation of the park.
Then visit the middle 3960msnm located in the area of Toreadora where we will walk about 3-hours depending on the pace of the group. The skirt along the trek will cross gaps and Polylepis forests and the guide will explain about moorland vegetation.
Then we will have lunch in a restaurant of the zone. Finally visit the lower part of the park, near Llaviuco to 3150msnm in a different ecosystem known as montage primary forest and have a walk around the lake for about 1.5-hour.
The guide can change the order of the visits but it'll lasts 8-hour approx. This tour includes pickup at your hotel as well as drop-off.
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