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Ride through the Andean grassland at the foot of an active volcano.
An exclusive private day trip combining a 2-3 hour horseback ride around the grassland at the base of Cotopaxi Volcano with a hike around Limpiopungo Lagoon, plus a boxed lunch.
This is an exclusive experience with your own private tour guide — the drive to Cotopaxi is roughly 90 minutes, followed by the horseback ride and hike.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private pickup from your hotel or Airbnb.
Ride for 2-3 hours around the grassland and volcano with helmets and ponchos provided.
Hike for about an hour around this highland lagoon, spotting local plants, flowers, and birds.
Enjoy a boxed lunch included in the tour before returning to Quito.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
An exclusive private day trip combining a 2-3 hour horseback ride around the grassland at the base of Cotopaxi Volcano with a hike around Limpiopungo Lagoon, plus a boxed lunch. This is an exclusive experience with your own private tour guide — the drive to Cotopaxi is roughly 90 minutes, followed by the horseback ride and hike.
The grassland you'll ride through on this tour is páramo, a treeless, high-altitude Andean ecosystem found only in the northern Andes, where spongy soil and hardy grasses, mosses, and shrubs survive intense sun, cold nights, and thin air. It's an unusually important landscape ecologically — páramo wetlands act like a natural sponge, capturing moisture from passing clouds and slowly releasing it to feed the rivers that supply water to communities far below — and it's also home to Cotopaxi National Park's best-known residents: free-roaming, semi-wild horses that move in loose bands across the open grassland and are easy to spot near Limpiopungo, often grazing within sight of Cotopaxi's glaciated summit.
Horseback travel through this landscape has deep roots in the Ecuadorian highlands. The region's chagra culture — Andean cowhands descended from a centuries-old blend of Indigenous and Spanish colonial traditions — has herded cattle and horses across this same páramo since the colonial hacienda era, wearing wool ponchos and leather chaps against the cold and wind. Large historic haciendas scattered across this part of the Andes, some built directly on earlier Inca foundations, still keep that horsemanship alive today, and a guided ride at the base of Cotopaxi follows the same routes chagras have used for generations rather than a route invented purely for visitors.
Limpiopungo Lagoon, where the tour's hike takes place after the ride, sits at roughly 3,800 meters inside Cotopaxi National Park — a protected area of about 32,272 hectares established in 1975. A flat trail of around 2.2 miles circles the wetland, and between the horseback ride and the walk, it's common to spot llamas, hummingbirds, and Andean gulls moving through the low vegetation, all framed by the volcano's snow line above.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
