Ecuador Travel News

It was a cloudy August day as we drove into Puerta Lopez, a small fishing village in the Manabi Providence in Ecuador.

Suman Tarafdar Posted: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 2218 hrs IST Updated: Sunday, Nov 08, 2009 at 2218 hrs IST : 'We are a banana Republic.' Well, that's what Gonzalo Davila Trueba , from the distant land of Ecuador, says gleefully.

The nation's most popular park isn't too popular with National Geographic Traveler magazine.

Galapagos Islands tours are often a highlight of any South America vacation, but can be an expensive and time consuming experience.

QUITO, Ecuador - Due to their unrivaled stability and comfort, Catamarans are the ideal type of boat from which to explore the Galapagos Islands.

Casa Ceibo is living up to its newfound reputation as the finest destination resort on Ecuador's coast.

DORKING, ENGLAND, October 30, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Travel specialist Kuoni has launched a brand new Latin America holiday brochure, valid until December 2010.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Ecuadoran counterpart Rafael Correa pledged Thursday to ramp up cooperation in energy and defence as the Kremlin seeks to revive Soviet-era ties with Latin America.

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Visiting and teaching children in Ecuador was not enough for a group of Spanish students at the University of Redlands.

Brett M. Forshey, Amy C. Morrison, Cristhopher Cruz, Claudio Rocha, Stalin Vilcarromero, Carolina Guevara, Daria E. Camacho, Araceli Alava, Csar Madrid, Luis Beingolea, Vctor Suarez, Guillermo Comach, and Tadeusz J. Kochel Author affiliations: US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, Lima and Iquitos, Peru ; University of California, Davis, ...

Currently instead of enjoying the thrill of tea baggers in the United States I am spending my semester in the picturesque Andes Mountains in Cuenca, Ecuador where the elevation is high and a visiting student has many opportunities to fall ill.

Q: My wife and I, ages 74 and 60, would like to travel to Quito, Ecuador, via freighter, banana boat or tramp steamer from Southern California.

Yamaan Safady is affectionately known as Rambo and also dubbed 'King of the Wadis' Tejendra Singh has been known to enable visitors to share Diwali prayers in local homes The Paul Morrison Awards was initiated four years ago in memory of the co-founder of Wanderlust magazine.

Arrived In Quito.... Breathless.... Could be from the general excitement of starting off on seven months of travel and going round the world for the first time, but equally could just be because this place is so bloody high! The city sits at the same altitude as a substantial alp and the hill above the town is higher than Mont Blanc! This will be ...

I live in Boquete Panama but I just flew into Panama City from Guayaquil Ecuador.

Pirating the Caribbean: Money-saving tips David Swanson, Special to The Chronicle We've all been cornered.

Forming a medical mission team has long been on the hearts of faculty from St. John's College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Southwest Baptist University's Springfield campus in Missouri, and during the spring of 2009 the dream was finally realized.

THE mounds of reeking garbage on the edge of this settlement 600 miles off Ecuador's Pacific coast are proof that one species is thriving on the fragile archipelago a ' man.

Ever since The New York Times named the Galapagos Islands No. 3 on its "44 Places to Go in 2009," we've bumped it up on our own travel checklist.