Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jefferson Herrera stands with his Alpaca beside Quilotoa crater lake, an area regarded by many Ecuadorian communities as a sacred ...

13,000 feet above sea level, the Quilotoa Crater Overlook in Ecuador offers stunning views of a turquoise water-filled volcanic crater. Eight-hundred years ago, a catastrophic volcanic eruption in the ...

If you want to hike in the Andes without crowds, head to the Quilotoa Loop. If you want to hike in the Andes, it’s pretty hard to go wrong. The longest continental mountain range in the world spans ...

If you've ever wanted to check out the inside of a volcano, this is your chance. Architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno have created a high-altitude viewing deck perched above an ...

Tourists from around the world travel to Quilotoa, a 12,000-foot-high active volcano with a brilliant blue lake in its crater. Located about 100 miles away from Quito, a local indigenous community ...

This wooden observation platform by architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno sits high above a three-kilometre-wide lake inside an active volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes (+ slideshow).

Located in the Cotopaxi Province of central Ecuador, Quilotoa Lake is a stunning water-filled caldera formed from a collapsed volcano over 800 years ago. With a depth of approximately 250 meters and a ...

This wooden observation platform by architects Javier Mera, Jorge Andrade and Daniel Moreno sits high above a three-kilometre-wide lake inside an active volcano in the Ecuadorian Andes (+ slideshow).