Editor’s note: It gives me so much pleasure to introduce you all to our newest writer here at The Royal Tour! I’ve known Shauna Kanel since university. She is well-traveled, thoughtful, and brilliant, and her love of cultural immersion plays really well with the sorts of stories we like to tell here. In her first…
On Thursday, I posted a story about how to see the Equator in Ecuador. When I tweeted about it, I was shocked to see that Ecuador was trending. Looking deeper into why, I found out that Ecuador gave citizenship to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, and applied to the UK for diplomatic status in…
The country is named after it, so it would be a shame to visit Ecuador and not straddle the Equator, the line dividing the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. But since the line crosses the entire country, where is the best place to accomplish this bucket-list item and what is there to see while doing it?…