Ecuador 2026 Complete Guide: Galápagos, Quito, Cotopaxi, Amazon Yasuní, Cuenca, Otavalo and Mitad del Mundo
Browse more guides: Ecuador travel | South America destinations Ecuador 2026 Complete Guide: Galápagos, Quito, Cotopaxi, Amazon Yasuní, Cuenca, Otavalo and Mitad del Mundo I keep coming back to Ecuador because no other country lets me touch four worlds inside fourteen days without ever changing currency or worrying about a long internal flight. In one short trip I stood on the equator near Quito, watched a blue-footed booby dance on North Seymour, paddled past pink river dolphins in Yasuní, sipped warm canelazo at 2,850 metres in a colonial plaza, and bought an alpaca blanket from a weaver whose family has spun wool since long before Pizarro. Ecuador hands you the Andes, the Amazon, the Pacific coast and the Galápagos in a country smaller than the United Kingdom, and it lets a US-dollar earner pay every bill in greenbacks because the country switched to the US dollar in 2000 and never looked back. TL;DR Ecuador is the smallest of the Andean countries and the most absurdly varied....