A New Tourist Attraction at Quilotoa Volcano

BobH Serial expat

Member since 07 June 2011

BobHSerial expat15 December 2014 21:36:56

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A project sponsored by the Ecuadorian Tourism Board has just completed an observation deck projecting out over the crater lake at Quilotoa.

http://www.complex.com/style/2014/12/vo … in-ecuador

The pictures at the link of the deck and the lake look like it's really cool (a similar projecting deck was built a few years ago at Grand Canyon).

Google maps says that Quilotoa is about 2.5 hours south of Quito, and about a hour west of Latacunga.

mugtech ViP

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mugtechViP16 December 2014 19:52:54

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BobH wrote:
A project sponsored by the Ecuadorian Tourism Board has just completed an observation deck projecting out over the crater lake at Quilotoa.

http://www.complex.com/style/2014/12/vo … in-ecuador

The pictures at the link of the deck and the lake look like it's really cool (a similar projecting deck was built a few years ago at Grand Canyon).

Google maps says that Quilotoa is about 2.5 hours south of Quito, and about a hour west of Latacunga.

Sounds like quite the effort to get there, including a six mile hike to the rim, which is over 12,000 feet above sea level, with the lake itself about 11,300 feet above sea level. I would think tourists might want to wait until they have been in Quito a few weeks before trying this adventure, but it does sound like a beautiful view.