Adventures on Ecuadorian Trails
This year it was time to explore the trails in South America. Ecuador offers diverse landscape from Volcanic rugged terrain and alpine tundra to cloud forests and lush green jungles. With challenging terrain, diverse wildlife, and high altitude, Ecuador Andes offers variety of hikes. The peaks which we planned were all 15,000 plus feet. Rucu Pichincha, Corazon, Iliniza Norte, Cayambe, Cotopaxi, and Chimborazo ! There were 16 people in our group. All the peaks with their height in feet. Image Credit-: Samir Palnitkar Group Members-: Meenal Patwardhan, Neel Patwardhan, Sagar Chivate, Samir Palnitkar, Anuradha Palnitkar, Sahil Palnitkar, Aditya Palnitkar, Jai Rawat, Arun Kumar, Priti Gairola, Srikanth Nandyala, Divya Yeraguntla, Jai Rawat, Gautam Vashist, Sushil Ranjan and Ashutosh Chauhan. The ideal time to hike in Ecuador is during dry season, which is June to September. So our hiking dates were exactly during this time frame. Though as they say 'Mountain makes its own weathe...