Well today we headed up to Cotopaxi!! The Highest snow capped active volcano in the world! (very active volcano). And it looks absoloutly amazing! the day started with a train ride to cotopaxi national park, had to sit on the roof of the train ofcourse and wave to all the locals. once at cotopaxi we saw the bottom of the mountain, was quite cloudy but looked amazing. we then drove up the the car park and hiked to the refuge where we had lunch and then hiked to the glacier. I wanted to go all the way to the top but thats an expensive 2 day trip so sadley could not, the glacier is at 5,000m though which is still pretty damn high!! (for comparison, Mt Blanc, the higest mountain in Europe, is 4,800m high
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