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Quito & Cotopaxi Trip

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by: Judy Green
Our first sight of Quito as we dropped through the clouds was of a bowl filled to the brim with lights. Quito sits high in the Andes, surrounded by mountain peaks, and the city runs right up the mountainsides.

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Quito & Cotopaxi Trip

Want to go? Cotopaxi - Quilatoa

I went to: Ecuador, Quito, Cotopaxi
Made it (gasp!) to 14,400 feet on CotopaxiCotopaxi in the clouds; the glacier used to come all the way down to the Base Camp at the center of the photoCotopaxi: Coming down from Base Camp on jelly legsOn the shores of Laguna de Limpiopungo, with Cotopaxi in the backgroundLaguna de Limpiopungo--or what's left of it--a lake more than11,000 feet up into the Andes, with Cotopaxi looming in the background Quito at night from the Cafe Mosaico, with La Virgen de Quito at the left La Virgen de Quito, a metal statue with great viewsBasilica del Vote Nacional in Quito; imagine climbing into the towers!

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