La Escondida farm offers a safe horseback riding experience; beginners, intermediate and advance riders are all very welcome.
We specialized in providing wonderful horseback riding holidays. We offer rides from 1 to 12 days by unique trails with stoning views, rides around active volcanoes, paramos, cloud forest and coastal area. Each day will bring you knew experiences and opportunities to learn more about Ecuador, the Andes, their people and crops.
Let us take you to visit the Antisana, Sincholagua, Cotopaxi and Cayambe, among the most ...., several haciendas can be your host.
Our horses are mixt, Anglo, Spanish, live and trained in the Andes, agile, calm, character and perfect mountain sense.
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Nuevos Retos
Horseback Riding the Andes with the best horses and guides in a pristine natural habitat
Wild horses Piñan 2017
Last trip of the year December
The Royal Road (Camino Real)
Languages die, memories vanish, stories are built on stories, as the footsteps of those who have already walked the ancient roads persist, except for in the minds of those who walk upon them. These words, speaking of lost languages, echoed in my mind as I walked the Camino Real, or Royal Road, located on the southern side of Mount Chimborazo: a path of footsteps that are no longer to be found. Footsteps of the ancient Puruhå people, of the Incas, of the Spaniards, of 19th century adventure seekers. Today we walk this beaten path, whose character and essence had been contemplated and imagined long before we came along.
Chagras, Paramos Trail the Andes
Join the legendary Chagras (Ecuadorian Cowboys) on a trip across wide open undulating grasslands with rivers, lakes, forests and remote Haciendas (ranches). Come prepared for lots of good forward going riding at all paces - no nose to tail trail riding. Here! The South American cowboy refuses to break with tradition which, according to the UNESCO, makes for the liveliest equestrian culture in the world. The Ecuadorian Chagras lives in the Andes and all have roots in Europe due to the large numbers of immigrants who arrived in the 16th to 19th centuries.
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[email protected]
La Escondida Farm / Trip Advisor
593 9 99701172
The Royal Road (Camino Real)
Languages die, memories vanish, stories are built on stories, as the footsteps of those who have already walked the ancient roads persist, except for in the minds of those who walk upon them. These words, speaking of lost languages, echoed in my mind as I walked the Camino Real, or Royal Road, located on the southern side of Mount Chimborazo: a path of footsteps that are no longer to be found. Footsteps of the ancient Puruhå people, of the Incas, of the Spaniards, of 19th century adventure seekers. Today we walk this beaten path, whose character and essence had been contemplated and imagined long before we came along.
These ancient roads, which date back over 2,000 years, are lined with päramo. One of them leads all the way from Cuzco, Peru, through the eastern slopes of Chimborazo and from Chuquipogyo (Hacienda Andaluza), heading north through Mocha. From Chuquipogyo you can also go west through Yungas cloudforest, or through Tambo Totorillas (Chimborazo Lodge) down to Guaranda, where you can descend to the coast via the Babahoyo river.
In colonial times, this pass was called the Royal Road, or Camino Real, and it was in use until 1908, when the Guayaquil-Quito Railway was finished. We usually call these routes "Inca trails," but in reality they were there long before; once the Incas arrived, they used these already-existing paths to create a massive interconnected road system called the Qhapac nan, which was praised by Alexander von Humboldt: "Nothing I have seen in Roman roads in Italy, southern France or Spain, were more imposing than these works". Inca trails cover over 5,000 kilometers, spanning from the Mayo River in Colombia to the Maule River in Chile, with offshoots in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina,
The road, along with the people, cultures and the more than 70,000 animals that had used it, was forgotten in 1908. It's hard to imagine what the path must have looked like just over 100 years ago, with so much traffic. The P
Andean Rides
Andes Outfitters, La Escondida Farm- 25% off youth 16 years or younger attending with a parent
Cirque du Solei
Horseback
Riding with the Cirque du Solei
