Nobody knows Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands like Lonely Planet. Our 8th edition gives you the tools you need to create your own adventure, whether you want to browse colorful handicrafts at Otavalo's Saturday market, climb active Volcan Cotopaxi, swim with the Galapagos penguins or relax in chilled-out Vilcabamba.Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.In This Guide:Dedicated Outdoors chapter: hiking, biking, surfing and kayakingInsightful, respectful coverage of Ecuador's rich indigenous culturesGreen Index identifies sustainable options (
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The usual LP quality.
by Joseph Morris from Berkeley, California
I just spent three weeks in the Galapagos and then biking around central Ecuador, and LP was impressive as usual. Other than one restaurant in Quito that I felt was a somewhat misdescribed, I cannot think of anything else that was inaccurate, and most days I was looking up at least one business in it. Unlike previous LP guides I have used, there are now "our picks" that highlight unique or
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Pretty good guidebook
by Jenfromalaska from
I spent two months in Ecuador (including about a month in Cuenca) with this guidebook and was overall pretty satisfied with it. In general, the hotel recommendations were good, and there was good information about interesting things to see and do. Even places that aren't super touristy, I was generally impressed with its coverage. It failed to note several interesting festivals that I attended, so I think that coverage of events
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Seems to be a good guide book
by The Purple Bee from USA
I have not travelled to Ecuador yet but this book seems thorough in what I've read.
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Indispensible travel guide
by S. Crawford from
Downloaded the Kindle version of this book a week before leaving for Ecuador and read it cover to cover before arriving in Quito. It was absolutely indispensible! We used it to guide our choices on Hostels, restaurants, the best modes of transportation and how and where to arrange for them, which coastal cities to visit and skip and must-see attractions. It was right on the money with it's hostel recommendations (although
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The book almost every backpacker carries in 2010
by Joseph N. Scudder from
I just returned yesterday from a month in Peru and Ecuador. This new edition of the Lonely Planet guide to Ecuador is the one more backpackers carried than any other guide. Even though it is a new edition, many backpackers had used their book so much it looked like it had been used for a couple of years. It is a thin volume. That is good and bad. It is good
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