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The Andes' artisans call on skills thousands of years in the making, writes Jim Eagles.

Efforts to find survivors from a mine collapse in Ecuador have proven fruitless, a report says.

Jim Eagles avoids a guinea pig lunch but is charmed by a fortune-telling bird.

A panel of politicians has voted to remove the Galapagos Islands from the UN's list of World Heritage Sites in danger.

Church and state pomp abound in Ecuador's capital writes Jim Eagles.

A 33-metre submarine intended for use by drug smugglers has been seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador.

Guayaquil, Ecuador's biggest city, makes artistic use of public space, writes Jim Eagles.

Jim Eagles gets up close and personal with the incredible array of fauna on the isolated Galapagos Islands.

In the Galapagos you can walk as close as you like to the local sea lions and they simply don't react.

To combat the effects of tourism, the Ecuadorean Government has brought in increasingly strict controls on both the tourist industry and life on the Galapagos Islands.

Visitors flock to the Galapagos to experience its intriguing and diverse wildlife. But at what cost to these fragile isles, asks Alice Neville.

The altitude in the Ecuadorean capital of Quito takes your breath away, as does its historic centre, writes Alice Neville.