BOOOM! Volcan Reventador

Ash plume from an eruption of Volcan Reventador

Here is our intrepid guide,  Florencio, who took us up and down the volcano through mud, streams, torrential rain, and machete hacking.

lichen eating away at the volcanic rock

looking up at the reforming volcano cone in clouds, former crater wall surrounding, and with a lava flow from 2008 to the left in tan