News from Quito, Ecuador
News From Quito, Ecuador 2013: QUITO POSITIONS ITSELF AS A LEADING TOURISM DESTINATION The city of...
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Quito a candidate for New World’s 7 Wonders Cities
The City of Quito has made it to the second round of the New "7 Wonders of the World...
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Ferrocarriles del Ecuador, Ecuador’s Train unveils two routes
Ferrocarriles del Ecuador now offers new routes from Riobamba for its passangers. Tren del Hielo...
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LAN Airlines Announces the Biggest Deal of the Year
(MIAMI, November 28, 2011) "? LAN Airlines, South America´s premier air carrier, and its...
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10 New Extreme Adventures from Abercrombie & Kent
(DOWNERS GROVE, IL "? October 17, 2011) — There is adventure travel, and then there are...
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Casa Gangotena: Quito’s Newest Boutique Hotel
There will soon be a new address for spirited travelers to experience the beauty and history of...
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Quito Named 2011 Culture Capital Of The Americas
QUITO, Ecuador, April 15 "?The capital of Ecuador has been named the 2011 American Capital of...
Read MoreBuen Provecho Ecuador
Meals in Ecuador often consist of set menus known as almuerzos (al-mur-zoes) lunches and meriendas (merry-en-das) dinners, which usually consist of a soup, main course (usually meat) and a dessert. These usually cost just one or...
Read MoreThe Center of the Earth, Quito
Standing 20KM north of Quito the Mitad del Mundo is a thirty-meter tall, stone clad monument, topped by a 4.5-meter diameter globe weighing five tonnes. A white line, representing the Equator line runs through the monument and...
Read MoreLonesome George- the World’s Rarest Animal
The fragility of the natural world in Ecuador (and around the world) can be summed up in just one word: George! George, or Lonesome George as he is more commonly known has come to be an unwitting star in the Galapagos Islands as...
Read MoreIn the Eye of the Beholder, part 2
For part one of In the Eye of the Beholder I woke up in our tent wearing nothing but my underwear. A villager told me that I got out of the tent at night and ran around the jungle in a stupor until other villagers caught up with...
Read MoreIn the Eye of the Beholder, part 1
It is two days later and I still don’t have all my memory back. I remember arriving at the village where the Shaman’s house was and being a bit nervous. I tried to do some research and asked people I had met and the...
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