LIVING IN ECUADOR, MADE SIMPLE
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Private and public health insurance in Ecuador can be easily combined with low-cost supplemental health plans
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Ecuador’s 90 day Tourist Visa and Extensions
By Marcos Chiluisa
Ecuador has a lot to offer as being one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world for the past decade. Over the years, Ecuador’s government has gone to great lengths and considered many avenues to facilitate its various visa processes to help ensure that all tourists have an easy time obtaining any form of visa - especially a tourist visa.
Million dollars yacht for rent!
Kontiki Huiracocha is known as the God of creation for the Incas and as legend has it, he arrived in the north of Ecuador (now the coasts of Manta and Portoviejo), got lost, and never appeared again. In 1948 Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian, arrived and wanted to prove that there was once trade between Polynesia and the Incas. So, he built a small boat made out of balsa, an Ecuadorian wood, and he named that boat La Kontiki. This story inspired our idea, but we are carrying it out aboard a catamaran, which is a little bit more enjoyable. Given that my family owns and operates tuna boats, I saw an opportunity in a shipyard, in the shape of an old, abandoned hull. This was where I got the idea for oceanic journeys up Ecuador's coast.
