Ecuador 2017

Here is the main page covering our visit to Ecuador during our four-month stay in South America from December 2016 to April 2017  (including Colombia, Peru and Bolivia), plus a slide show of pictures at the end.

For journal postings from Ecuador, CLICK HERE.

Our month-long Itinerary took us far and wide within the country:

  • Quito
  • Cotopaxi Volcano and Volcano Alley
  • Quilotoa Loop (Ilinizas, Chugchilan, Isinlivi, Quilitoa Volcano crater)
  • Llanganates National Park, Salcedo
  • Napo River/Coca and Amazon forest
  • Baños de Agua Santa
  • Riobamba
  • Devil’s Nose train and Incapirca
  • Cuenca
  • Parque Nacional Cajas
  • Guayaquil
  • Santa Cruz, Galapagos and diving
  • Galapagos Island cruise

You can browse the map below for where we’ve been in Ecuador (and posted an article). Click a pushpin to find the posted articles from the marked locations.

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SLIDE SHOW HINT: If you’ve already seen the earlier pictures in the slide show, use the dot placemarks below the slides to jump around.

  • Our go-to vendor at the local mercado
  • Colonial arcade (and gelato joint) at central plaza
  • Intimate exchange, Cuenca. Can we fit in?
  • Old Cathedral, Cuenca
  • Colonial street, Cuenca
  • Cuenca street
  • Central plaza, Cuenca
  • Approaching Cotopaxi Volcano from Quito
  • Climbing to El Refugio with view of Antisana, Cotopaxi
  • El Refugio
  • At El Refugio
  • Cotopaxi peak
  • Cotopaxi from neighboring plains
  • Roundabout street art, La Floresta area, Quito
  • Quito and its volcanoes, from the southwest
  • Hemispheres apart, but still together – at the equator near Quito
  • Quito sunrise with volcanoes, from the southwest
  • The central plaza, Independencia, where the revolution began
  • Colorful street, downtown Quito
  • Colonial baroque interior, San Francisco Church
  • La Compania Jesuit church, Quito’s Baroque masterpiece
  • The old trade of shining shoes at the express bus station
  • Approaching Quito’s Independencia plaza
  • Another downtown street
  • Monument to liberator Simon Bolivar, Bolivar Plaza
  • The Capitol Theatre, Parque La Alameda
  • A street in charming Mariscal neighborhood
  • Indigenous women eat and chat at open air market, Saquisili
  • Ilinizas Volcano
  • Hardened sulfur waterfall, Ilinizas hot springs
  • Chimborazo Volcano
  • Wild vicunas at Chimborazo
  • Llanganates Park bog
  • Valley hiked between Isinlivi and Chugchilan – from below
  • Double waterfall near Banos
  • Valley hiked between Isinlivi and Chugchilan – from above
  • The 10 km around crater, Quilitoa Volcano
  • Patchwork quilt of farms near Quilitoa
  • Llanganates Park lagoon, with a view of volcanoes
  • At the fish stall, open air market, Saquisili
  • Indigenous woman at open air market, Saquisili
  • Suspension bridge, Isinlivi to Chugchilan
  • Llanganates National Park
  • Under Chimborazo
  • Camouflaged grasshopper
  • Jaguar scat with alpaca hair, and feasting insects
  • Walking under the canopy
  • Eye-popping color
  • Jungle web
  • Tarantula seen at night
  • Squirrel monkey mama with baby
  • In a tree hide, above the canopy
  • Examining a poisonous frog
  • Insect lunch
  • Sunset at the lagoon
  • Creek from lagoon to Napo River
  • Jungle flowers
  • Bug of many parts
  • Lagoon at sunset
  • Lunch with fungus
  • Night crawler…tree frog.
  • Strangler fig envelops the original tree
  • Night crawler…cricket
  • Rare vista over the Napo River, Yasuni National Park
  • Cicada ruidosa, alarm clock in the jungle
  • In the jungle canopy, trails are tough to follow
  • A strange insect hides in plain sight
  • Improved path with local guide, Yasuni
  • On the trail
  • Long-billed flycatcher on a long-brimmed hat
  • Vicente Roca Point, Galapagos Islands
  • 1-meter-long giant tortoises in a kind of huff
  • Walkable lava tube formed when flow surface hardened first
  • Lava rock and sand, Santiago Island
  • Dazzling display of crab
  • Tagus Cove, Isabella Island
  • Galapagos hawk on lava swirls
  • Espinosa Point, Fernandina Island
  • Flightless cormorants and marine iguana pals
  • Blue-footed booby
  • Land iguana literally in heat
  • Lava swirl, Sullivan Bay, Santiago Island
  • Galapagos sea lions at play
  • Santiago Island
  • Brown noddy terns at Vicente Roca Pt.
  • Tagus Cove, Isabella Island
  • Galapagos penguins
  • Santiago Island
  • A flightless cormorant schools unruly marine iguanas
  • Galapagos dove
  • Magnificent frigatebird
  • Brown pelican with a mouthful
  • Blue-footed booby, Vicente Roca Pt
  • Attentive marine iguans
  • Flying booby
  • Orquestra concert at the Old Cathedral, Cuenca
  • Teaching the kids English at San Joaquin parish