https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/ecuador-travel/RSS feed for Ecuador TravelenWed, 06 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/quest-save-worlds-most-coveted-chocolate-180982703/For these ambitious scientists in the rainforests of Ecuador, helping the environment has never tasted so sweetWed, 06 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/quest-save-worlds-most-coveted-chocolate-180982703/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ecuadors-high-court-recognizes-that-wild-animals-have-legal-rights-180979862/The landmark case involved a deceased woolly monkey named EstrellitaFri, 08 Apr 2022 20:35:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ecuadors-high-court-recognizes-that-wild-animals-have-legal-rights-180979862/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/iconic-natural-rock-feature-galapagos-islands-crumbles-ocean-180977775/The top of the Darwin’s Arch, a natural stone archway, fell as a result of natural erosionFri, 21 May 2021 11:30:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/iconic-natural-rock-feature-galapagos-islands-crumbles-ocean-180977775/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/wild-world-new-nature-preserve-ecuador-180977166/Scientists have already begun discovering new species in the hotbed of biodiversityThu, 18 Mar 2021 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/wild-world-new-nature-preserve-ecuador-180977166/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lake-tells-story-ecuadors-decimated-indigenous-quijo-groups-180969705/In 1541, roughly 35,000 Quijos lived in the valley. By the 1580s, they had vanished, leaving little evidence of their existence behindFri, 20 Jul 2018 16:48:02 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/lake-tells-story-ecuadors-decimated-indigenous-quijo-groups-180969705/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/nine-unique-gifts-buy-bolivia-ecuador-peru-180956569/Leave room in your suitcase for these irresistible itemsFri, 11 Sep 2015 18:00:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/nine-unique-gifts-buy-bolivia-ecuador-peru-180956569/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/amazonian-rainforest-one-most-biodiverse-places-earth-180955364/Yasuní National Park in the Amazon rainforest may have more species of life than anywhere else in the world Fri, 22 May 2015 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/amazonian-rainforest-one-most-biodiverse-places-earth-180955364/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cold-hungry-and-happy-in-the-high-andes-1213333/40 bucks in cash, a warm sleeping bag and plenty of wine carry the author through his final days in Ecuador, in the remote high country outside of QuitoFri, 08 Mar 2013 17:40:12 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/cold-hungry-and-happy-in-the-high-andes-1213333/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/biking-ecuadors-spectacular-avenue-of-the-volcanoes-353120/Home to a string of high peaks, including 20,564-foot Chimborazo, the area offers some of the finest cycling, hiking and adventuring country anywhereMon, 04 Mar 2013 07:10:34 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/biking-ecuadors-spectacular-avenue-of-the-volcanoes-353120/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/much-ado-about-nothing-at-the-equator-8514125/Just north of Quito stands a grand and glowing tribute to one of Ecuador’s proudest features: the Equator. The problem is, it was built in the wrong placeWed, 30 Jan 2013 16:25:25 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/much-ado-about-nothing-at-the-equator-8514125/