The Ecuador Travel Guide

Quito, Ecuador (2011 American Capital of Culture)

• Old Town, Quito
• TeleferiQo Arial Tram (takes you up to over 12,000’ into Andes from town)

Manta, Ecuador (beach city)

Salinas, Ecuador (beach town, with great beaches – $1,400/mo for couple to live comfortably, low taxes, cheap condo fees)

San Clemente, Equador 

Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Cuenca, Ecuador (UNESCO)

Vilcabamba, Ecuador (best weather)

Cotacachi, Ecuador (small mountain town)

Cotopaxi National Park, Ecuador 

Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

Papallacta, Ecuador

Otavalo, Ecuador

• Otavalo Saturday Market

Podocarpus National Park, Ecuador

Riobamba, Ecuador

Puyo, Ecuador

Montanita, Ecuador (chilled out beach town, great surf, and backpacker scene)

Tena, Ecuador

Banos, Ecuador

• Edge of the World swing, La Cas Del Arbol, Banos, Ecuador

Mindo, Ecuador

• Mindo-Nambillo Cloud Forest, Ecuador (The real thing; intact tropical cloud forest ecosystem)

Nathan Cawood

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