Ecuador Guide

If you don’t pay attention, your Happy New Year’s message will have a totally different ring to it!  Please ignore this if you are sending your “Happy New Anus Year” greeting to someone that has recently had some plastic surgery on done to their derriere! Happy New Anus Year!

Ecuador is not only home to the world’s highest active volcano (Cotopaxi), but to numerous other active and extinct volcanoes. In fact, Ecuador has one of the world’s highest densities of volcanoes in one given country. There are 30 volcanoes on mainland Ecuador and some 14 in the Galapagos Islands. LATEST NEWS AT BOTTOM Note: …

No matter how limited or tight your budget might be, there is almost always a way to travel …

5 Gifts than Never Go Out of Style 1. The gift of …. TIME Time is probably our most precious of all things. It cannot be bought, sold or traded – but it can be given. It is limited … in quantity, but not in quality. 2. The gift of … GIVING By giving I don’t refer to material items – …

Travel. We all do it … every day, every moment. When many of us think about traveling we may be inclined to envision tropical sandy beaches, a romantic foreign city, or some other exotic and unusual destination or activity. We generally romanticize the notion of travel. In fact, we travel every day, and at almost every …

After a decade of living back here in Ecuador, I thought it high time to publish traffic lights (translated from Ecuadorian Spanish into English).

Although there is an incremental growth in the number of blogs being published & updated, below you will find a select number of blogs that seem to stand out from the rest … crème de la crème, so to speak. In addition, I have decided to include useful tools & applications for those on the …

[NOVEMBER 28th, 2011] BREAKING NEWS |  Mount Tungurahua volcano reactivates its activity and local authorities once again go into orange alert. As we have apparently become a popular and trusted source for breaking travel-related news for mainland Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, we have decided to change (improve) the manner in which news is presented …

Some simple but powerful phrases … Well, we all do it … every day, every moment. If you enjoy it on a daily basis, you’ll definitely enjoy it when experienced in foreign countries or places. Otherwise, it generally stays the same (regardless of where you find yourself … because the common factor is you!) When you …

The male lava lizard is larger then the female and they look distinctly different. The overall color patterns are different, and females have bright red skin under their throats. The males are territorial and will protect their territories from other males. They will threaten intruders by doing “push-ups”. There are seven different species of  Tropidurus (lava …