An Expat Talks about Moving to You have choice of basically 3 climates in a small country: cool drier mountains, warmer beaches and hot humid Amazon area. Country is small so you can easily go from one to another. However, it takes more time to travel than you might think as there is NO 'as the crow flies' here. Have to go thru and around mountains so it takes more time. Good highway system., Ecuador

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You have choice of basically 3 climates in a small country: cool drier mountains, warmer beaches and hot humid Amazon area. Country is small so you can easily go from one to another. However, it takes more time to travel than you might think as there is NO 'as the crow flies' here. Have to go thru and around mountains so it takes more time. Good highway system.