Waking up at 11pm, we say waking up, no one slept. It's still Saturday. We both felt sick with a headache, this was not good as they could be symptoms of acute altitude sickness, but maybe some breakfast would help? We had some granola and yogurt with a herbal tea as the guide said this would help and we weren't to worried as a slight headache and uneasy stomach was ok as long as it didn't get worse! If it was bad now it would be 8 times as bad at the top. Hopefu...

So today is the day, we are off on our 2 day trek climbing Cotopaxi, the highest active volcano reaching 5900m at the summit! We woke up and had fruit and Grenola for breakfast, left our bags in the hostels storage and headed to Condor Trekking where we pick up our equipment and met the rest of the group, 2 americans Brittany and Nate, 2 english girls Natasha and Helen, 2 Swiss guys who for ages we thought were German. They looked like veteran climbers and the ki...