Advice on Diving inEcuador

...ave recently been limited to three per day on liveaboards, and vessels are not permitted to land except at the end of the journey. Machalilla National Park comprises of beaches and forest on the mainland coastal area, plus a number of small islands and two larger islands, Salango and Isla de la Plata. Isla de la Plata has a reputation as the “poor man’s Galapagos Islands”, boasting a number of land and sea creatures only seen here and on the Galapagos themselves. Sadly, Machalilla National Park has not enjoyed a similar level of protection to the Galapagos over the years. Over-fishing, poachi...