There is a period at the end of the word. That is the first thing I notice about the garment preview for Quirky Cotton Collective’s…
Editor’s note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt shows a single word: meh. It is set in large, bold, lowercase…
Salinas de Guaranda sits in the Bolívar highlands, a small town that has become one of Ecuador’s most cited examples of cooperative-led rural development. For…
I want to be upfront about what this article can and cannot do. The official Trenes de Ecuador pages (trenesdelecuador.com and its route and Nariz…
Last August, I sat in the kitchen of Doña Rosa Quishpe in the Kichwa community of Saraguro — three hours south of Cuenca on the…
When I write about how tourism affects the Amazon communities of Ecuador, I mean something specific: the money, the presence, and the expectations that travelers…
Tourism in Ecuador’s Amazon basin is not one thing. It is a patchwork of lodges, community-run guesthouses, river transport networks, guide cooperatives, handicraft markets, and…