Ecuador Mountain Biking Tours

Mountain Biking - 01 Day Trips

Itinerary:

COTOPAXI One day downhill bike tour
Longitude (on bike):       50 km/34 miles
Max. Altitude:              4.500 meters/15.800 feet
Min. Altitude:               3.200 meters/11.300 feet

At 08:00 AM you will leave Quito and after driving south for 1,5 hours on the Pan-American Highway you will reach the park entrance of Cotopaxi National Park. You drive through pine forest and soon reach the museum of the park. From here you continue the ascent in the 4-wheel drive vehicle until you reach the highest point of the tour, 4.500 meters/15.000 feet.

The view from this point is stunning and on a clear day you are able to see 8 volcanoes. We then put on helmets, gloves and protection pads and the bike adventure on the world's highest active volcano can begin. The first 8 km will take you down 700 m. on dirt roads through volcanic ash and páramo landscape.

At 3.800 m you actually have to do some pedalling heading down another 8 km to the lunch spot by a view point where have been Inca ruins in former times at 3.700 m. With some luck you might see a condor or a caracara. You put the bikes back on the jeep and head for the lake of Limpiopungo at 3.800 m where you start the 16 km downhill biking on dirt roads through pine forest. After another 2 km on a beautiful single track the bike adventure is over for this time and around 16:30 PM you are back in Quito again.

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Departure Day: upon request
Price 1 Days: USD 95.-
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NONO-TANDAYAPA
Longitude (on bike):         34 km/21 miles
Max. Altitude:                 3000 meters/10.500 feet
Min. Altitude:                   1800meters/6.400 feet

Drive westwards from Quito towards the coast, over the Andes using the old road Quito-Mindo until 3.100 m of altitude. At this point, you switch to the mountain bikes and start the descent towards the cloud forest located on the west slope of the Volcano Pichincha until you will reach the cross roads to Tandayapa (2.000 m).

This is a 40 km bike ride on a dead road, void of traffic. You'll enjoy a picnic lunch before you continue biking until reaching the small birding paradise of Tandayapa. Watch the vegetation change from paramo to cloud forest to low mountain forest as you whiz down the mountain.

Keep one eye on the road and the other peeled on the sky: there's a good chance to see parrots, hummingbirds, toucans and caciques. On your way back to Quito you stop for a 40-minute-hike among verdant forest. You intern yourselves in the cloud forest to visit a waterfall. You will return to the 4-wheel drive jeep and continue on the Calacalí-La Independiencia road towards Quito. This is a very scenic loop enjoying the views. The landscape is diverse with patchwork fields of lush vegetation and the high sierra plains. You will stop for a visit to the rim of the Pululahua Crater. Before you reach Quito, you will pass the monument to the Mitad del Mundo.

GUAGUA PICHINCHA – LLOA
You start the biking journey near the top of still very active Guagua Pichincha Volcano. The views are spectacular. Look east on a clear day and you’ll see the sprawling metropolis of Quito back- dropped by numerous snow-capped volcanoes. Look towards each of the other three compass points and you will be awed by great expenses of paramo (tundra like vegetation). You will trek to the edge of the crater to peer over its rim and into the throbbing heart of this rumbling, belching sulphuric beast, after which, you mount the bikes and race downwards to Lloa on an abandoned dirt road. At Lloa you head west into the cloud forest, where the verdant forest awaits you. Packed lunch en-route. By late afternoon you will return to Quito.

Prices:
Each costs USD 95.- per person

Included:
Box lunch, 21-speed mountain bikes, all transportation, all protections (helmet, hand gloves, elbow and knee pads) and veteran guides.

Not included:
Entrance fees to National Parks (e.g. Cotopaxi), tips, beverages, personal expenses, insurance.

Departure time:
Around 08h00 in the morning. In each we'll ride approximately 50 kilometres on bike (5 - 6 hours) and 4 hours on jeep. Clients can choose to do more biking, if desired!

Departure days:
EVERY DAY! With 2 or more clients.

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