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 ...

The Galapagos Rail had not been seen on this island since Charles Darwin's visit to the archipelago in 1835, until now.

Straddling the equator down in South America, Ecuador’s coastline is as diverse as they come: 1,400 miles of coastline and more than 50 beaches offering a virtual smorgasbord of waves ...

Situated directly on the equator, the country enjoys 12 hours of direct equatorial daylight 365 days a year. “The best weather in Ecuador is up in the mountains in towns and cities like Cuenca ...