The Andes is pocked with snow-capped volcanic cones, offering towering ice spires, sulphurous craters and stunning altiplano views to the aspiring volcano-bagger.
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21 March 2013
Easy to access, beautiful to behold, the mountains of Ecuador are an unexpected hiker’s paradise.
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04 February 2011
Hikes into the tallest peaks of the mountainous glaciers and volcanoes in the country.
04 February 2011
The islands are no longer an endangered World Heritage site, but they may still be at risk.
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03 February 2011
Not all of Ecuador’s animals are found on the bio-diverse Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin made famous in On the Origin of Species. Straddling across the Andes from the Amazon to the Pacific Ocean, there are record numbers of insects, reptiles and birds to be found on the country’s mainland.
02 February 2011
It is the wealth of volcanoes – on both the mainland and out in the offshore Galápagos Islands – that make the country what it is: dramatic, fiery and full of explosive adventures.
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31 January 2011
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