Backpack Ecuador

QUITO IS A MUST :)

Why You Should Visit Quito, Ecuador in 2018 New reasons to love Latin America's best preserved colonial city.

Every morning before the sun rises, 75-year-old Carlos Sánchez says a prayer in his one-room hut, grabs a pair of binoculars and slowly climbs up into a lonely treehouse that leans precariously over the edge of a mountain. “Eighteen years later, she’s still active,” Sánchez said. “So I’m still here.”

Monitoring one of the 10 most active volcanoes: The story of the man behind the swing at the end of the world (Baños, Ecuador)

Where you can swing over the edge of the Earth Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, Carlos Sánchez monitors one of the world’s most active volcanoes from a tiny treehouse, while thrill-seekers soar over the abyss below.

Otavalo is best known for its Poncho Plaza, one of the most important indigenous crafts market in Latin America. There's so much more than ponchos, though. Here are some of their