Inspection of National Park “Los Nevados”

If you love highland trekking, you have to visit national park “Los Nevados”. To get to know the park’s infrastructure, we visited the park two weeks ago to examine carefully its’ conditions. Within 5 days, the “Neptunos” Camila, Julian and Christopher crossed the Andes’ Central Cordillera from East to West. On horse, on foot, with the help of a piolet, sleeping in tents and sleeping in small fincas – a dream came true!

Our tour began in the village Murillo, east of the Central Cordillera, where we started crossing the mountain range until we finally arrived to the Cocora Valley after 5 days. The typical South American highland vegetation called Páramo was present all the time, which is characteristic for altitudes between 3500 and 4500 metres. Fortunately all of us quickly got used to the altitude and felt better day after day. The highlight of our trip certainly was the morning ascent to “Nevado del Tolima”. 

At 3am we left the base camp at 4500 metres to crest the volcano’s summit at 5220 metres, which we finally reached at 6:30 after withstanding a snowstorm. During our descent, the sky brightened up which gave us the opportunity to enjoy the spectacular view of the smoking active volcano “Nevado del Ruiz”. Turn your phone off and just hike!

For further information regarding the whole operation please contact us. We offer tours in the “Nevados” for FITs and groups.