Price: From USD Days: 1 day Trip Rating: Moderate Place: Andes and Amazon Basin
Option 1: Cotopaxi Volcano National Park
Trip Rating: Moderate
Drive through páramo landscape to highest point. Enjoy stunning view of 8 different volcanoes.
The bike adventure on the world’s highest active volcano begins. Bike on dirt roads through volcanic ash and páramo landscape to Inca ruin at 3.700 m Packed lunch while keeping an eye towards the sky - you might see a condor! In the afternoon bike on dirt roads and single track down from Lake Limpiopungo through pine forest.
Altitudes: 4.500-3.200 m. (15,000-10,600 ft.)
Option 2: Quito-Andes Highlands of Papallacta and Cloud Forest
Trip Rating: Moderate
This is an excellent way to see a cross section of Ecuador’s ecosystems in one day: the first part of the trip starts high up in the páramo – the Ecuadorian equivalent of the arctic tundra – and ends in low montane cloud forest at the edge of the Amazon basin.
Once we reach our first destination, we throw our bikes on the jeep’s roof and drive back up the pass to the Papallacta hot springs for a soothing swim in the natural thermal pools. If the day is clear, views of Antisana Volcano will bedazzle. After lunch we drive over the Papallacta pass at 4200m and remount our iron horses for the two thousand meter (over 6000ft.) whiz downward to Tumbaco valley just outside of Quito.
Altitudes: 4200-2500 m. (13900-8300 ft.)
Option 3: Otavalo
Trip Rating: Moderate.
Single tracks, dirt and paved roads will lead you on your bike through striking landscape in the area of volcanos Imbabura and Cotacachi.
As we approach Otavalo, you will notice an area rich with culture. Indigenous people in local dress come from all over the country to sell their handmade wares. Once we have had time to fill our bags with goods we drive to Cuicocha Lake. Lunch.
After a refortifying lunch we bike on dirt roads through quaint Indian villages back to Otavalo. Return on jeep to Quito.
PRICE (USD)
TOUR
PRICE (USD) per person
PRICE (USD) per person
Option 1: Cotopaxi Volcano National Park
From 2 to 5 pax: 49$
From 5 pax: 45$
Option 2: Quito-Andes Highlands of Papallacta and Cloud Forest
From 2 to 5 pax: 55$
From 5 pax: 50$
Option 3: Otavalo
From 2 to 5 pax: 55$
From 5 pax: 50$
◊ PRICE INCLUDES
• Professional bilingual Guides,
• Fully equipped 4x4 back up vehicle,
• Mountain bikes, with v-brakes and front suspension,
• All protective gear (helmet, gloves, knee & elbow pads),
• Lunch,
• Purified water
◊ PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE
• Entrance fees (e.g. National Parks Cotopaxi $ 10).
• Tips,
• Personal expenses
• Meals not indicated as included.
afternoon bike on dirt roads and single track down from Lake Limpiopungo through pine forest. 
Trip Rating: Moderate
throw our bikes on the jeep’s roof and drive back up the pass to the Papallacta hot springs for a soothing swim in the natural thermal pools. If the day is clear, views of Antisana Volcano will bedazzle. After lunch we drive over the Papallacta pass at 4200m and remount our iron horses for the two thousand meter (over 6000ft.) whiz downward to Tumbaco valley just outside of Quito.
Trip Rating: Moderate.
with goods we drive to Cuicocha Lake. Lunch.
