ecuador

Underwater Wonder of the World, Number 4

CAPITAL

Quito

POPULATION

14 million

AVERAGE ANNUAL INCOME

$3700 USD

PRESIDENT

Rafael Correa Delgado

Ecuador photo albUms

After volunteering in Peru for five months, I met up with my mom and bro dog for the holidays in Ecuador. We spent Christmas in the Galapagos, New Years in the Amazon and hung out in Quito in between. Afterwards, my friend Bryant flew down and we spent a week at the Black Sheep Inn.

“... and so the story goes that 4 million years ago underwater volcanoes erupted which created these remote islands. Eventually animals (somehow!) began to venture out to these isolated islands 1000km / 600 miles off the Ecuadorian mainland. Left alone out in the middle of the ocean, and thanks to the unique mix of warm and cold currents, the Galapagos ultimately became home to the most unique, distinct and exotic mix of animals, flora and fauna, many of which exist no where else in the world. No one even knew about it until a med school dropout by the name of Charles Darwin landed on the islands in the 1830s....”

Excerpt from “Galapagos to the Amazon”