Jefferson Herrera stands with his Alpaca beside Quilotoa crater lake, an area regarded by many Ecuadorian communities as a sacred space. Photograph by Ben Pipe The town of Zumbahua acts as the gateway ...

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'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 ...

If you want to hike in the Andes, it's pretty hard to go wrong. The longest continental mountain range in the world spans over 4,000 miles, includes ample 20,000-foot peaks, the world's highest active ...

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).