Cotopaxi Volcano National Park, Ecuador
November 5th 2007 Today we left Quito and drove about two hours south west to visit the famous Cotopaxi Volcano National Park.
At 5,897 metres Cotopaxi is the highest active volcano in Ecuador and as such, is permanently capped in snow. It is instantly recognizable by it´s completely symmetrical cone shape and is the epitmoe of what one thinks of as a Volcano.
However, when we arrived we were disappointed as
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