- Is indispensable to have the passport in rule, a ticket of return and sufficient funds for our stay in the country. Visa is not needed if we do not overcome 90 days.

 - Have to good collection your documents and do not take big quantities of cash, it is better to use cards of credit or traveler's checks.

 - It is important to be informed about the tourist insecure places before visiting them.

 - Do not do ostentation of money, jewels or expensive clocks in the street to avoid thieves to attract.

 - Never accept either food strangers' or drink, they have given themselves many cases in those who with this method drug the tourist and steal the money from him.

 - In Ecuador there are many thefts in tourist zones with public's agglomerations. And it is not advisable to go out by night for little travelled zones.

 - The official currency is the sucre, which is divided in 100 cents. The dollars are received well, not so much the Euros that are not so habitual.

 - Ecuador is the country with the prices mas low of the whole Latin America.

 - Into the whole country the most habitual cards of credit are admitted (VISA, Mastercard, American Express) and there is cashiers' multitude where to withdraw cash.

 - The "foreign tax" is a regulation that does that the foreigners pay something more for some services. If you want to avoid it chooses more economic hotels or takes buses instead of trains or planes.

 - The bargaining is habitual at the moment of formalizing a purchase. Do not accept the first offer that they do to you.

 - Is habitual a gratuity stops to the service if he has attended to us correctly (buttons, taxi drivers, waiters) but always delivering it in hand instead of leaving her close to the invoice.

 - No vaccine is necessary to enter Ecuador but it is advisable to be vaccinated of yellow fever if we are going to visit the Amazonian jungle. If you suffers from the heart or hypertension is advisable to consult with your doctor due to the high altitude of the country.

 - The difference of altitude can cause also some discomforts if we are not accustomed.

 - If you travels to the tropical zones have care with the stings insects that can trasmitirle some diseases.

 - The food must be cooked well, with a few hygienic acceptable measures and avoiding water drinking that not this one bottled.

 - Depending on the zone that we visit is more or less advisable to travel in an epoch of the year:

  - If we want to climb the mountains or to practise excursions for mountainous zones we can choose from June to August.

  - To go to the islands Galapagos is preferable between January and April in order that the water this one to a better temperature.

  - To go to the pacific coast is more advisable between January and May.

 - The transport is very cheap in the whole country. We can find urban tickets of bus from 0,25 dollars and the taxis for approximately 6 dollars.

 - The most habitual means to move in equator are the urban buses, the interprovincial ones, the trolebús of Quito, the taxis, planes, boats, pangas and railroad in mountainous zones.

 - To communicate with the foreigner you should not have any difficulty, nonetheless consult with your telephonic company. In the rural zones where there is no good coverage there are many centers of calls where to be able to realize calls abroad.

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