Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous markets to ...

After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator - but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim to ...

'Ecuador ama la vida' reads the enormous sign built out of rocks at the peak of the Casitgua Mountain at the southern end of Quito, the country's capital city. Ecuador loves life. And indeed it does, ...

I had planned to travel to Africa this week to climb Kilimanjaro, highest peak on the continent, but I lost my chance when I injured a knee training. So here's a story about some climbs I did in ...

The Americans and Canadians in our group of 10 gasped and then laughed as our guide explained that guinea pigs are considered a good source of protein and were never kept as pets in Ecuador. In fact, ...

Not far from Ecuador’s capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they’ve got one foot on either side of the equator. A 100 foot obelisk marks the spot. Now, the ...

Created after the dissolution of Gran Colombia, Simon Bolivar’s great South American nation, Ecuador gained its independence in 1830. Before Spanish colonization it was a part of Inca Empire. Today, ...