The Campsite That Should Not Exist | Ecuador Overlanding - Video

We heard about a campsite on the rim of Laguna Quilotoa, a volcanic crater lake at 3,900m in the Ecuadorian Andes. No one we knew had found the road. The last iOverlander report said part of it had washed away. We went anyway.

In this episode: the hidden rim road, hiking the full 10km crater loop, hunting down a secret Swiss cheese farm in the Andes, reuniting with friends at Cotopaxi, a week of camphosting at CodaVista in Quito, and fixing a broken exhaust manifold on our Land Rover Defender TD5.

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#Ecuador #Overlanding #LandRoverDefender

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Episode 070 I Filmed April 2026 in Ecuador

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Chapters:
00:00 A Campsite on the Rim of a Volcano
01:05 Fluri Adventures
01:55 The Drive to Quilotoa
02:33 Finding the Hidden Rim Road
04:00 We Made It to the Rim
05:30 The Story of Quilotoa Volcano
06:55 Hiking the Crater Rim at 3,900m
11:15 The Highest Point
17:10 Searching for Swiss Cheese in the Andes
18:50 Found It — Swiss Cheesemaking in Ecuador
21:05 Reunited with @HD.Adventuring at Cotopaxi
21:45 Why Cotopaxi Is Not to Be Underestimated
23:05 Wild Horses in the Páramo
24:20 Sunset in the Andes
26:25 A Week of Camphosting at CodaVista
27:20 Time to Fix Willy
28:02 The Broken Exhaust Manifold
29:25 Manifold Overhaul by @ORIngenieria
31:45 Replacing the Alucab Rooftop LED
33:10 Goodbye CodaVista
35:00 Heading to Peru
35:35 The Haircut

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