Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador – Adventurous mountain bikers begin their decent of Cotopaxi just as the weather arrives.
For centuries local Andean Indians have honored Cotopaxi (“Throne of Moon”) as a sacred mountain and worshiped it as the “rain sender” that made the land fertile.
Mountain bikers begin their descent near the summit, a place once revered as a home of the gods.
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