Hiking in South America: readers’ tips

Edit The Guardian 12 Nov 2015
With snowy peaks casting shadows on tropical landscapes, hidden ruins of ancient civilisations and deserts punctuated with immense volcanoes, South America isn’t short of dramatic hikes. Winning tip. Cerro Castillo, Chile ... ID090252 Laguna Quilotoa, Ecuador ... The ultimate adventure would be to hike the three-four day Quilotoa Loop which starts in the town of Sigchos or the crater itself. The town of Quilotoa is made up primarily of hostels....

8 Amazing Buildings Perched Near Volcanos

Edit Huffington Post 14 Jul 2015
By Katherine Wisniewski, Architectural Digest. (photo. courtesy of Jorge Javier Andrade Ben�tez). QUILOTOA SHALAL� OVERLOOK, ZUMBAHUA, ECUADOR. Architects Javier Mera Luna, Daniel Moreno Flores, and Jorge Javier Andrade Ben�tez designed this vertigo-inducing overlook, which is perched on the edge of the nearly two-mile-wide crater of a volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes. (photo. courtesy of Spasm Design) ... (photo. courtesy of Arkib�llan) ... (photo....

This spectacular lookout frames dizzying views of Ecuador's Quilotao Crater

Edit Inhabitat 17 Dec 2014
 .  . Mirador en la laguna del Quilotoa is a tourist lookout that offers dizzying views of the Quilotao Crater in Ecuador. The project was designed and built by Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno for the Ministry of Tourism ...  . Tourists from around the world travel to Quilotoa, a 12,000-foot-high active volcano with a brilliant blue lake in its crater ... Related ... + Javier Mera ... 0 ... ....

This spectacular lookout frames the dizzying view of Quilotao Crater in Ecuador

Edit Inhabitat 17 Dec 2014
 .  . Mirador en la laguna del Quilotoa is a tourist lookout that offers dizzying views of the Quilotao Crater in Ecuador. The project was designed and built by Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno for the Ministry of Tourism and can be taken apart if need be ...  . Tourists from around the world travel to Quilotoa, a 12,000-foot-high active volcano with a brilliant blue lake in its crater ... ....

Stunning Observation Deck Floats Above An Active Volcano

Edit Fast Company 16 Dec 2014
Eight-hundred years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in the westernmost Ecuadorian Andes formed the Quilotoa Crater Lake. a two-mile-wide caldera filled with water of a brilliant turquoise, thanks to volcanic minerals that brighten the color ... To offer visitors stellar views of the Shangri-la that lies beneath, architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno have designed the Quilotoa Crater Overlook ... [H/T. Dezeen] ... Continued....

Hiking And Riding The Quilotoa Loop

Edit Huffington Post 17 Nov 2014
Carrying the bare essentials for 3 days of hiking and riding the Quilotoa Loop, I took a bus to the village of Sasquisil�, Ecuador ... The paths were treacherous and at times, cantering along so close to the edge of a gaping ravine made me really wonder whether I was going to make it round the entire Quilotoa Loop alive ... After a second day of hard riding, we arrived in Quilotoa at almost 14,000 feet....

Ice Cores Show Volcanoes Cooled Earth Less Than Estimated

Edit Mashable 10 Jul 2014
Global cooling caused by some historic volcanic eruptions wasn't as extreme as climate scientists recently thought, according to newly revised ice core records from Antarctica. Volcanic eruptions blast sulfur-dioxide gas into the stratosphere, where it turns into tiny particles called sulfate aerosols that reflect the sun's energy and cool the Earth ... SEE ALSO. The 10 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History ... Quilotoa, Andes – 1280....

Volcanoes cooled Earth less than thought

Edit Fox News 10 Jul 2014
By Becky Oskin, Senior WriterPublished July 10, 2014. Facebook0 Twitter0 livefyre. Mount Pinatubo's 1991 eruptionUSGS ... ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT ... Samalas, Indonesia 1257 Kuwae, Vanuatu 1458 Tambora, Indonesia 1815 Mount Churchill, Alaska 674 Rabaul Caldera, Papua New Guinea (listed for two eruptions) 531 and 566 Quilotoa, Andes 1280 Ilopango, Central America 450 Laki, Iceland 1785 Mount Rinjani, Indonesia Between 1200 and 1250.   ... ....

Top Picks: They’ll take your breath away

Edit New Straits/Business Times 01 May 2014
Breathtaking scenery makes a holiday memorable. Here are the top 10 views around the world, as recommended by VirtualTourist.com. Makasutu Forest and Mangroves in The Gambia, Africa ... Swiss Alps in Kandersteg, Switzerland ... Moran in the starring role ... Laguna Quilotoa in Ecuadorian Andes. 4 - Laguna Quilotoa is a beautiful volcanic crater lake situated high in the Andes at an altitude of 3,900m ... Laguna Quilotoa in Ecuadorian Andes ... ....

>Eruptions

Edit Wired News 15 Apr 2014
Game 1 ... This volcano (roughly equivalent to ) in ~1280 AD that not only spread ash far across the globe, but also had lahars (volcanic mudflows) that reached the Pacific Ocean, a distance of over 170 km! Quilotoa shares a lot of traits with Pinatubo – the volcano is fairly inconspicuous during its periods of quiet, but it has produced large explosive eruptions over the last 200,000 years ... The crater lake at Quilotoa in Ecuador ... 0....

Top 10 ‘must see’ views

Edit Stuff 31 Mar 2014
1. View of Swiss Alps in Kandersteg, Switzerland ... Single rooms are of modest size but have all of the comforts ... 2 ... 3 ... 4. View of Laguna Quilotoa in Ecuadorian Andes. Laguna Quilotoa is a beautiful volcanic crater lake situated high in the Andes at an altitude of 3900 meters (almost 13,000 feet) ... VirtualTourist members recommend staying at the nearby Hostal Cabanas Quilotoa where getting to the crater is a short walk away. 5 ... 6 ... Ad Feedback. 7 ... 8....

Tourism in Ecuador Heating Up

Edit PR Newswire 25 Mar 2014
Other recognitions identify sites such as Cuenca as the Best Destination for Retirement during the past five years, according to International Living, and now as the Adventure Site for 2014; the Galapagos Islands as the Safest Bet for Surfing, according to Surfline.com; and the Quilotoa as one of the most beautiful volcanic lakes on the planet, according to TwistedShifter.com ... metropolitan areas like Atlanta and New York ...   ... ....

Volcano Detectives Uncover Monster Ancient Eruption (Op-Ed)

Edit Yahoo Daily News 15 Nov 2013
Robin Wylie is a doctoral candidate in volcanology at University College London. He contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices. Op-Ed & Insights ... The tiny shards in the 1258 layer had been the nails in the coffin for an Ecuadorian volcano, Quilotoa, as the source of the eruption; although it seemed to have been active in the right time frame, a disparity in the amount of aluminum in its ash had emphatically ruled it out....
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