From one-day volcano hikes to multi-day crossings through páramo, ancient Inca roads and cloud forest, every Unmapped Ecuador departure is private: your guide, your pace and a plan built around your booking.
Chimborazo · Sangay National Park
A demanding journey into one of Ecuador's most dramatic volcanic amphitheaters, ending at the glacial-colored Laguna Amarilla beneath El Altar's jagged peaks.
Cotopaxi · Sigchos → Isinliví → Chugchilán → Quilotoa
A multi-day walk through deep Andean valleys and rural communities, finishing at the turquoise Quilotoa crater rim.
Papallacta · Antisana · Sincholagua · Cotopaxi
One of Ecuador's great high-páramo traverses, linking El Tambo near Papallacta with the Antisana landscape and the northern side of Cotopaxi.
Chimborazo → Cañar
Walk a surviving section of the Andean road system through remote páramo, Laguna Culebrillas and archaeological landscapes before reaching Ingapirca.
Quito · Pichincha
A private high-altitude summit day above Quito, crossing open páramo, volcanic sand and a rocky final section to 4,696 meters.
Chimborazo Fauna Production Reserve
A short-distance but serious high-altitude experience from the Carrel refuge toward Whymper and Laguna Cóndor Cocha, where the landscape crosses the 5,000-meter line.
Cotopaxi National Park
Combine the open landscape of Laguna Limpiopungo with the stark volcanic slopes leading toward the José Rivas refuge below Cotopaxi's glacier.
Cotopaxi / Pichincha · Reserva Ecológica Los Ilinizas
A serious acclimatization summit with more than 1,000 meters of ascent, a mountain refuge and a rocky upper ridge above 5,000 meters.
Cotacachi · Imbabura
Circle the rim of Cuicocha's volcanic caldera with constant views toward its deep-blue water, central islands and the northern Andes.
Imbabura / Pichincha · Mojanda–Cajas
Start beside the high volcanic lakes of Mojanda and climb Fuya Fuya for open views across Otavalo, the northern inter-Andean valley and surrounding volcanoes.
Mejía · Pichincha
An extinct volcanic crater southeast of Quito with páramo, native Andean forest and a summit ridge that opens toward the Avenue of the Volcanoes.
Pichincha · Andes to Chocó cloud forest
A long westward traverse from the high country of Lloa down through the Río Cinto corridor toward the humid cloud forests around Mindo.