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The diverse geography of Ecuador offers
great biking possibilities for beginners and professionals. While
mountain biking you can get to know Ecuador from different sides
and enjoy the beauties of this unique destination. Our service
includes 4WD escort car, high quality bikes, and experienced guides
so we will offer an unforgettable biking experience. Lake & Mountain offers biking tours from one day up to fifteen days.
One
Day Biking
 Cotopaxi
Volcano National Park
Rating: Moderate
Drive through paramo 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 paramo 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: 4500-3200 m. (15000-10600 ft.)
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Quito-Papallacta-Amazon
Rating: Moderate Trip
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 paramo
- 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.)
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Quito-Nono-Tandayapa
Rating: Easy
Drive northwest until we reach the highest point on this trip
(3.000 mts). At this point, we switch to our mountain bikes and
start the descend. We'll pass the small village of Nono. Watch
the vegetation change from paramo to cloud forest to low montane
forest as you whiz down the mountain until reaching the small
birding paradise of Tandayapa. Keep one eye on the road and the
other toward the sky: there's a good chance to see parrots, hummingbirds,
toucans and caciques. Picnic lunch. Afterwards we will let you
end the biking tour through desert like areas until we reach the
Equatorial Line Monument. Drive back to Quito.
Altitudes: 3000-1800m (10000-6000 ft)
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Guagua
Pichincha Volcano - Lloa
Rating: Challenging
A spectacular trip even during the jeep ride to where we start this biking journey.
Donning our gear near up to the top of still-active Guagua Pichincha
Volcano we descend a steep and technical mountain side which is
surely one of the premier downhills in the entire country. On
a clear day we can see the breathtaking metropolis of Quito, surrounded by numerous snow-covered volcanoes. Wherever you look, you will be awed by great expanses of
páramo, and, if luckily, a soaring condor. We trek to the
edge of the crater of
this active volcano after which we mount our bikes and race downward
to Lloa on an abandoned dirt road. At Lloa we ride west into the
cloud forest where we enjoy a picnic boxed lunch. By late afternoon
we return to Quito by jeep.
Altitudes: 4800-2000 m (16000-6700ft)
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Otavalo, 1 Day
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.
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