I’ve often fantasized about retracing the steps of such naturalists as Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt and William Bartram, who saw exotic places and recorded, in detail, the plants and animals ...

2001-05-24 04:00:00 PDT Mindo, Ecuador-- When Benjamin Mora, 63, gazes at nearby hills and imagines an oil pipeline cutting through the area's Andean cloud forest, he gets the jitters. Mora, who owns ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Somewhere in a tiny town nestled in the rugged Andean ...

This was a road trip we'd been wanting to do for many years, and whilst it is a more challenging journey than other great ...

Where: west slope of the Andes; Tandayapa valley between Nanegalito and Mindo, Ecuador. Expected cost: ~$2,700 – total includes airfare ~$1,200 RT U.S. to Quito Ecuador, plus ~$1,500 that will cover ...

Break-through moment: A rural villager in Ecuador pointed them to a farmer who could supply a rare cacao bean for their chocolates. Lesson: It never hurts to ask. A husband-wife team from the United ...