How To Use This E-Book

Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Ecuador, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editor’s Choice categories of activies and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Ecuador. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, hotels, activities from to culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Ecuador are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

You’ll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Ecuador. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors who use their on-the-ground experience to provide the very latest information; their local expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide to you the best places to stay and eat, so you can be confident that when we say a restaurant or hotel is special, we really mean it.

Like all Insight Guides, this e-book contains hundreds of beautiful photographs to inspire and inform your travel. We commission most of our own photography, and we strive to capture the essence of a destination using original images that you won’t find anywhere else.

© 2013 Apa Publications (UK) Ltd

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Table of Contents

How To Use This E-Book

Introduction: Latitude Zero

Ecuador’s Top 10 Attractions

Editor’s Choice

Coast, Sierra, and Jungle

Decisive Dates

Lost Worlds

Hub of Two Empires

Independence and After

Economy and Environment

The Ecuadorians

Insight: The Bright Colors of Everyday Wear

Life and Lore in the Sierra

Peoples of the Amazon

Artesanías

A Nation of Painters

Sounds of the Andes

Outdoor Adventures

Food

Introduction: Places

Quito

Insight: Colonial Architecture

Day Trips from Quito

Northern Sierra

The Avenue of the Volcanoes

Insight: Railway Journeys

The Southern Sierra

The Oriente

Oriente Wildlife

The Western Lowlands

The Pacific Coast

Guayaquil and the South Coast

Introduction: The Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands: Darwin’s Laboratory

Insight: Birds of the Galápagos

Visiting the Islands

Transportation

Accommodations

Eating Out

Activities

A-Z: A Handy Summary of Practical Information

Understanding the Language

Further Reading