Cotopaxi Park

Today was a big excursion day, we left home at around twelve for a long drive south. We (Toya, Fabian, Diego, Alegria, Filipe and me) drove towards the Cotopaxi Park. The Cotopaxi is the world highest active volcano which rises above 5'850 meters.
The tip of the volcano is all year long covered by snow, the flanks of the volcano were redish, most probably because of the iron.
As we stepped out of the car for a little walk on a plateau at the bottom of the volcano, the wind blew like crazy, we walked around a pond, but Filipe was really cold, so we headed back to the car and continued our sightseeing from the car window.
In the park, we saw a lot of wild horses and even an eagle that was no futher than a meter away from our car. What a beautiful bird!
After the park visit, we headed towards a hacienda (farm) to have lunch. The hacienda was beautiful, with an inside court yard field by colourful flowers. The volumes where really spacious, and above all, the food was delicious.
On our way back home, we decided to visit Toya's father natal city, but unfortunatly I fell asleep and haven't seen an inch of it. But what I did see, was the hacienda Fabian use to spend a lot of time in as he was younger. Fabian showed me quickly around and as I looked at the view form the hacienda, Fabian told me that his mother used to compare the view to Switzerland. She was quite right, from the top of the hill where the hacienda layed, we could see a small river flowing down in the valley, a couple cows walking around a field and all this in a decor of mountains.
Then we drove back home and for the rest of the evening, we rested in front of the television set.