The Quilatoa crater lake. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
View of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
More of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
The river in the bottom of the valley. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
View over the valley. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
The trail around the rim of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Friends from the Black Sheep Inn while we're hiking on the rim of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Us in front of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
A little indigena girl. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
The ubiquitous feral dog. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Hiking along the rim of Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Eating lunch on a cliff overlooking the valley. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Hikers! (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Hiking along the rim of the volcanic crater lake, Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
A view of the rim down into the crater. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Hore hiking along the rim, with a view of the lake. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
More views of the valley. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
More Quilatoa. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
More views of the valley. (near Chugchilan, Ecuador)
HIking down from Quilatoa, we see a pen of goats and sheep watched by a farm dog. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Joey in a field of lupines. They are cultivated as food. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
We're hiking down through the clouds that seem to have socked in the top part of the mountain. (Chuchilan, Ecuador)
The trail around Laguna Quilatoa. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
View of the valley near Quilatoa. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Hiking back out of the valley. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
A steep part. Climbing out of the valley on the Quilatoa hike. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Humberto, Daniel, and Katie on the edge of the valley, before we head up into the cloud forest. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Katie begins her obsession with pigs. (Ecuador)
Creepy branches in the cloud forest. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)
Katie in the cloud forest. (Chugchilan, Ecuador)