Ecuador is located on the northwestern side of South America and is bordered by Colombia to the north, by Peru to the south and east, and to the west by the Pacific Ocean. Ecuador gets its name from the fact that it is crossed by the Equatorial Line. Ecuador is a country full of diverse cultures, climates and landscapes. Ecuador's impressive natural diversity is due to two circumstances that enjoy their greatest confluence in the Andes of South America. First, Ecuador's "Middle of the World" location means that Ecuador enjoys a vastly greater diversity of vegetation than say temperate regions. Second, Ecuador's biological diversity is greatly enhanced by the range in altitudes that the Andes mountain affords the landscape.

A trip to the Galapagos Island will be the journey of your lifetime. The Galapagos Islands is located six hundred miles off the Pacific coastline and are Ecuador's most popular attraction. Pristine red and white sanded beaches, coastlines dominated by giant mangroves, ocean waters filled with multicolored life forms, and animals that still behave as though man were no enemy, truly make the Galapagos the enchanted islands.