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 ...

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 ...

Just two per cent of the original Choco forest remains, and it’s a bucket list location for many nature-lovers. Constructed in 2012 on the site of an old sawmill, Mashpi Lodge was built to protect the ...

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 ...