Cajas is located above tree line and can be very cold specially when windy. The vegetation is mainly grass but with access to polylepis forest. Condors are a possibility. Interandean zone which ranges between 2,500 and 3.000 meters high. Drive Cuenca to Loja is around five hours with three or four good birding Spots.
Warm clothing is necessary.
This is a well protected area which ranges from 2,400m at the entrance to above 3,000m at the paramo trails on top. Cajanuma is temperate forest only 20 minutes from the city of Loja. Warm clothing needed. There is excellent birding from the road and a couple of nice easy-walk trails inside the forest. The road has an altitude of 1,000 meters.