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In America, Highlight, Ecuador 2001, Traveled places On  25/12/2001  No comments

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In America, Ecuador 2001 On  26/04/2001  No comments

I woke up early to go to the Cotopaxi Volcano. This made me feel a little bit anxious. I had been in an altitude of 2800m above see level for only two days and in two hours I would go up to a height of 4800m. I’ve never had been to an altitude like that before.

I went with a driver and two English guys, a tour arranged by a hotel. To get there was easy, as we left early we did not catch too much traffic. At 3800m of altitude there was a museum that shows to the visitors a little of the volcano history. At 4500m we stop in a sort of parking lot. There we got off the car and had to walk to the refuge (at 4800m). It was very cold, the wind was strong and snow falling. The way up was steep and slippery (it reminded me the volcanoes in Indonesia). After the first the 20 steps I was already tired, I had to stop. My heart was beating very strongly, for the first time I felt the effects of the thin air.

The way up was hard to me. I would go up a little and stop to rest...