Llama Treks: Coming Soon to the Black Sheep Inn, Cotopaxi, Ecuador, South America

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	Adam with New Born Miss Bell	A Unique Experience Black Sheep Inn is working hard to provide Andean Llama Trekking. Our team of friendly llamas are training to lead you through the mountains. They will carry all the gear, while you walk along side. Llamas have an extremely low erosion impact on hiking trails and the environment. We promise they won't spit!!
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Andean Llama Trekking
We are NOT offering this service yet...

We are looking for a volunteer to help train the llamas and local people to guide these treks. Please send us an email if you are interested, have experience with animals and can commit to 6 months or more.
Treks will range from two to four days. Minimum of two people, maximum of six. The Black Sheep Inn provides all your gear, tents, sleeping bags, sleep mats, cookware, delicious food and of course the Llamas!!! Remember, you don't ride the llamas, you hike along side of them and they carry your equipment.

Sample Itinerary - Tentative price: $60 per person per day.
Day 1- Depart the Black Sheep Inn after breakfast. Climb up to the high altitude grasslands of Guasumbini Alto, and visit the cooperatively run cheese factory. Hike further over the paramó ridge with views of the cloud forest. Camp at over 11,500 feet (3,600 meters) and see the sunset atop of a Pre-Incan Ruin Site.

Day 2- Hike down the side of a waterfall, and descend into the Rio Toachi Canyon, 'The Grand Canyon of Ecuador'. This day we will descend 3,000 feet (1,000 meters). After crossing the Rio Toachi we will set up camp at the confluence with Rio Sihui (pronounced sea-way). Enjoy a campfire.

Day 3- After breakfast we begin to climb out of the canyon, and up the side of the Quilotoa Volcano, 12,400 feet (3800 meters), this will be the highest elevation in our trek. At the crater rim views are stunning of the Emerald Lake below. Spend the night in this dormant volcanic crater, at the waters edge.

Day 4- Pack up the gear after breakfast, and head back to the Black Sheep Inn, visiting local artists along the way. We cross the canyon of Rio Sihui, a tributary to the Toachi, on our way back to Chugchilan and the Black Sheep Inn

Each day is approximately six hours of walking, with altitudes ranging from 2500m to 3900m (7800 feet to 12,700 feet). All meals are provided. $35 per person per day.
Meet our Llamas!!