After years living in Ecuador, I thought it was about time I visited the equator - but it proved more difficult than I thought. The reason being that in Ecuador there are several places that claim to ...

Not far from Ecuador’s capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it so they’ve got one foot on either side of the equator. A 100 foot obelisk marks the spot. Now, the ...

This Ecuador motorcycle day starts in Quito and rides out to Otavalo for the largest indigenous market in South America, then continues to the Equator monument where finally crossing that line feels ...

I had planned to travel to Africa this week to climb Kilimanjaro, highest peak on the continent, but I lost my chance when I injured a knee training. So here's a story about some climbs I did in ...

Before visiting Ecuador, the eponymous equator wasn’t the most eagerly-anticipated moment on my bucket list trip. There were giant tortoises to meet, cloud forests to climb and Indigenous markets to ...

Why is Quito, a city that 20 years ago was a pretty-much overlooked South American destination, on so many bucketlists right now? High in the Andes, and built on the foundations of an ancient Inca ...

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