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 ...

It’s a three-hour drive across the equator from Quito (Mashpi has its own car and minibus service to and from the city). Dubbed the “cloud forest”, the reserve sits between 900 to 1200 ...

The Equator is a line of latitude that bisects the globe at its widest point, and where the hours of light and darkness are equal throughout the year. The Equator passes through 13 countries ...