ECUADOR OVERLAND ROUTES Major border crossings at Ipiales (Colombia): at Tumbes/ Aguas verdes, La Tina and la Balsa (perú); and via Iquitos/Nuevo Rocafuerte (Peru by river). Nowhere else on earth you find so much natural diversity-and all the fun that goes with it-in so tiny a place. Ecuador is the second smallest country is South America, but the ranger of landscape it offers is no less than astounding. One day you'll be picking through hand-woven sweaters at chilly indigenous market in the Andes, and the next day you'll be sweating all over your binoculars while spying on howler monkeys in the rainforest. For nature lovers, the palce is a drem; exotic orchids and birds, bizarre jungle plants,strange insect. windswept páramo (high altitude grassland), dripping tropical forests and the fearless animals that hop, wobble and swim around the Galápagos Islands all await your hungry eyes. For the adrenaline junkie, the choices are outrageous:climbing, mountaineer
South America Holidays