Avid walkers and trekkers can now join organized seven, four and three-night Mountain Guardians Lodge-to-Lodge Climbing and Trekking programs exploring the tops and underbellies of four volcanoes and diverse eco-systems in one of the most bio-diverse countries of the world, Ecuador.
The adventure at the hearth of Ecuador's Avenue of the Volcanoes in the Andes was developed by Ecuador ecotourism
company, Tropic Ecological Adventures.
"Mountain Guardians is Tropic's desire to develop a sustainable tourism operation that integrates local entrepreneurs into the concept of sustainable tourism development," says Jascivan Carvalho, owner. Since 1994 Carvalho's company has worked to help preserve the Amazon. It recently expanded its ecotourism as a tool for conservation into the Galapagos. "Now we want to incorporate the Andes, such an incredible ecosystem
that has extreme value to the world and where all of the fresh waters sources for Ecuador are born." This region, Carvalho notes, is also home of emblematic and endangered species such as the Andean Condor and the Spectacle Bear.
Up until now an accessible, comfortable trekking program didn't exist here. For many years climbing has been a luxury for only a select group of expert mountaineers.
For more information visit destinationecuador.com.
