Ecuador & Galapagos

Ecuador boasts a national “Good Living Plan” and has established legal rights for nature. With these rights, please go ahead and marvel at its protected ecosystems spanning across coastal, jungle and mountain habitats.

Take a lesson in natural history in the unique volcanic Galapagos Islands, the well-known seat of Darwin's most famous ideas…a place sure to inspire you as well. In fact, the scene where Darwin played with his finches, and perfected his theories on evolution, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You can enjoy your own private boat, and dive into these amazing waters, or simply wander the lava rock trials in search of blue-footed boobies (think: sea bird).

Ecuador is famous for the ‘Avenue of the Volcanoes’, an impressive 200km. string of 14 volcanoes over 15,00ft. in elevation. Nowhere else on earth can you find such high, magnificent mountains so easily accessible. The Cotopaxi Volcano is one of the most incredible mountains in Ecuador and also one of the highest active volcanoes in the world. At an incredible 19,347f.t it rises from the Oriental Andes Mountain Range in a perfectly symmetric conic form that is entirely covered in snow ~ all at a stones throw from Quito. Explore the tropical jungles of the Amazon Oriental, or cool off in the Andean highlands, everywhere you turn the culture is rich and the land beautiful.