Country Info
- Quito
- Capital
- US dollar (USD)
- Currency
- 13,183,978
- Population
- EC
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Ecuador Slideshow
Ecuador
Travel Blogs from Ecuador
Running of the Bulls and the friends of Cayambe
This is a top pick! A year ago, during my 22nd birthday I would have never thought that I would be spending this one watching hundreds of different people enter a wooden, not-so-sturdy stadium with Raging Bulls running after them with special Ecuadorian friends at my ...
Escuela Espanol
This is a top pick! ... bus down to the town Attacames (in Esmereldas province) and he was one of the completely out of his mind variety. I still think Ecuador has some of the worst bus drivers in this part of the world, they are mental. They drive at insane and dangerous ...
A brief trip into Ecuador.
This is a top pick! After several weeks in Colombia I crossed into Ecuador for a few days 'holiday' from Colombia. I spent my first night in Ottavalo and found a great place to stay at the Hostal Santa Fe. The rooms had just been refurbished and were lovely and I also had ...
I have been robbed...
This is a top pick! ...of my nail scissors, or maybe I just forgot them on the Galapagos cruise or something. A pair of nail scissors, that's the only thing I have lost or gotten stolen off me after more than a year in Latin America. Not bad if you ask me. To be honest, I ...
Cali (Colombia) to Quito (Ecuador)
This is a top pick! ... kind of church we had seen like that and it was impressive and worth the hour side trip. We crossed the border into Ecuador and continued onto Otavalo in the countryside. We noticed straight away how many more tourists there are in Ecuador than Colombia ...
The Streets of Quito
This is a top pick! ... The three sharks circled in confusion then sped off into the night. Where Does All the Small Change Go? No one in Ecuador can make change. Upscale shops, busy restaurants, street vendors - it doesn't matter. When you buy something you're expected ...
On the road to Columbia via Otavalo!
This is a top pick! ... out of Ecuador and into Columbia and guesses range from 11/2 hours to 10 days! The traffic jam is horrificly long but we eventually leave Ecuador and get stamped out and cross a bridge into Columbia. As Dave and I are security we wait by the truck while ...
Exotic Animals, Rikishi and 2 mentions of Whores
This is a top pick! STEVE SAYS... I´m cheap. Anyone who knows me, knows this. For those who don´t, let me expand: 1) I´ve been dating Sara for 6 years and the most expensive gift (birthday, Christmas, just-because) she´s ever received from me was 2 seasons of ...
Colombia bound...
This is a top pick! ... amazing city. Plans always change of course but we´re looking at about a month there at the moment, before coming back through Ecuador for a couple weeks and FINALLY on to Peru and the rest of the original itinerary. I´ve truly had an amazing time ...
South of the Equator
This is a top pick! Five and half hours after crossing the border into Ecuador, I arrived in the capital city of Quito. At 2850 meters(about 9400 feet) in elevation, this is the second highest capital city in the world. I checked into one of the zillion hostels mentioned in ...
EcuaChristmas
This is a top pick! Before I knew it I was sitting in a plastic chair and passing on (not drinking) an alcoholic shot of whiskey every 3 minutes in celebration of the infant-daughters baptism. This was my EcuaChristmas Eve. Talk about feeling far away from home. My ...
Bikes in Baños, Sun in Canoa, Back home with Brady
This is a top pick! ... and spectacular scenery, Baños is up there with Cuenca and the beach-town of Canoa as my favorite places here in Ecuador... (Message to Volunteers: I know I really need to travel the Coast more right.) Saturday morning after only 4 hours of sleep from ...
Back to Work
This is a top pick! After seven days of exploring the southern half of Ecuador, I will shortly be embarking on a 22 hour busride, northeast, back to my jungle house. I am leaving Cuenca after four tranquil days where I have been able to step-back from the busyness at my job ...
Wait! I think I have forgotten something
This is a top pick! We woke up to a pleasant morning of glorious sunshine which was a lovely change after yesterday's rainy start. We had managed to book a ferry yesterday to the Island of Isabela, the largest Island in the Galapagos archipelago, the ferry cost $25. After a ...
Swimming with pink dolphins
This is a top pick! ... we can improve our Spanish over the following days in Cotopaxi. **We received such good service from Paul at Carpedm we though we'd include his contact details if anyone is travelling to Ecuador and the Galapagos: paul@carpedm.ca ...
Pondering the Creatures of the Galapagos
This is a top pick! Could a group of animals gather themselves together on a raft, or maybe an ark-like craft and make their way 1,000 kilometers to a few islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean? How long ago would they have come here? Ten thousand years ago, a million ...
Changing country.....
This is a top pick! The airport at Baltra, in the Galapagos is very small, and once the tourists have been bused to their expensive tours, we were left with the locals to be first bused to a ferry where we saw, pelicans and seals and then onto a bus terminal just outside ...
More volcanoes and views
This is a top pick! Get up early (mainly due to noise. Beeping should be made illegal in this country between 11 pm and 7am I reckon there would be a revolution!) and get a bus to Ambato. This ride is also amazing as we go north of the volcano and see it from another ...
A long old journey into Equador.....
This is a top pick! An overnight bus journey, two cab rides with I know you^re ripping us off, but yourê so cheap and I´m so tired we don,t care.Then another bus trip we arrived at a huge bus station in the middle of nowhere, so another cab ride to a nice little hotel ...
Banos
This is a top pick! Steve Irwin´s death has received considerable coverage here in Ecuador... what a significant loss to Australia´s tourism industry and Australia in general. I can just imagine the sadness being witnessed there. On arrival in Banos, as soon as we walked ...
Afro-Latin Beat
This is a top pick! ... in mid-week, and only for a couple of days, it would surely be a nice quiet place to relax. The northern coast of Ecuador has a high proportion of people of African origin, and the first thing we noticed as we arrived in Atacames was the "beat". The ...
On Tour
This is a top pick! I´m starting to recuperate from what was a very hectic 3 days of travel from Marakesh to Quito. I´m very dehydrated, so drinking heaps of water and gatorade but have very dry skin. Quito is a beautiful town, 2850km above sea level and full of rich ...
Happy 4th of July... again
This is a top pick! Since visiting the center of the planet, I have explored more around Quito, went to a local soccer game at the stadium, an indigenous market in Otovalo, and completed another week of spanish school. They have rules in spanish that don't exist in english ...
Completing the Northern South America Loop
This is a top pick! Had a fantastic parillada (lots of meat basically!) last night in a great little restaurant in latacunga called El Copihue Rogjo on Calle Quito y Tarqui. Great value too! Went to bed very full but tired. Some very kind tourists bundled in the ...
The Last of His Kind
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 326 Temperature : Weather : Sunny with Rainy Showers A very short blog today. We went to the Charles Darwin Centre to visit Solitary George and the giant tortoises. After yet another start at 5.30am for the sunrise we once again ...
Exploring the old town
This is a top pick! Woke up early again despite sleeping well, must be all this going to bed so early lark. Embarked on our walking tour of the old town. From the start in felt like we were in a completely different city to last time we were here (we only stayed in the ...
Off the Beaten Track
This is a top pick! Leaving the coastal resort town behind, we travelled about 200 km across the western lowlands, where the forests have long since been cleared to make way for acres and acres of banana, oil palm and cacao and peppercorn plantations. In contrast to the ...
Ay ay skipper!
This is a top pick! ... the next 7 weeks there will be three of us travelling together, Sandra, Madeleine and me. We´re working our way slowly down Ecuador then to Peru. In the not too distant future we´ll hopefully be trekking up a mountain or two and find ourselves at the ...
I left my lungs in Pichincha and bathed in Baños
This is a top pick! ... were doing some program to volunteer and learn spanish in Guayaquil. We discussed some travel options for our stay in Ecuador. Generally a worthless conversation I suppose, and even more worthless and as a travel log note. Sorry. Baños is supposed ...