Articles tagged with "Ecuador"
Sitting on the equator gives Ecuador almost no seasonal swing in daylight or temperature. What it has instead is altitude and a mountain range, and between them they produce four weather regimes within a few hours of each other.
Ecuador has one entry requirement that surprises almost everybody, and it applies only if you arrive overland. This guide separates what the cited source actually says from what it does not, and is explicit about whose passport it was written for.
Ecuador is small enough to cross in a day and varied enough that no single month is best for all of it. The highlands, the coast, the Amazon and the Galapagos each have their own year, and the Galapagos question is really two questions.
Cuenca was inscribed in 1999 for a reason that is easy to walk: a planned Renaissance town, set out on paper in 1557 and built to that plan, whose grid and scale survive inside a modern working city.
Quito was inscribed in 1978 alongside the Galapagos, in the first group of properties the World Heritage List ever contained. Its citation is unusually direct: the best preserved and least altered historic center in Latin America.
The Galapagos were inscribed in 1978 among the first properties ever placed on the World Heritage List, and they carry reference number one. This guide covers what is there, how a visit is organized, and the two practical facts that change a Galapagos plan.