The historical centre of Cuenca is an example of one of the most beautiful colonial towns in the Americas. Whitewashed buildings with huge, old wooden doors and ironwork balconies line cobbled streets...
The National Park of El Cajas’s is around 290 square kilometres in size, and shelters everything from cloud forest to rocky lunar landscapes, but it’s the lakes of glacial origin (more tha...
The Gualaceo valley lies on the banks of the Santa Barbara River. Here, a slightly lower elevation makes it ideal for growing peaches, apricots, apples, cherries, guayabas and cherimoyas, making it a ...
Just 70 kilometres north of the UNESCO city of Cuenca sits another World Heritage Site – Ecuador’s largest and most significant Inca ruins of the Ingapirca Fortress. It is believed that I...
Ecuador lays claim to being the origin of the famous Panama Hat – known locally as sombreros de paja toquilla. Traditionally made in Ecuador from the fibre of a plant of the ciclantacea f...
For a spectacular view of the city of Cuenca, climb the Loma de Turi (Turi Hill) from where one can observe the beautiful river Yanuncay and the streams branching into the landscape. At the top of Tur...
