Beauty in diversity

IT sits in a small corner in northern South America, 20,000km and multiple time zones away on the other side of the world, but Ecuador has a few things in common with Singapore, not least of which are a tropical climate (at sea level, anyway) and yes, the Equator, that imaginary line at latitude 0 degrees running around the centre of the planet.

In theory, it would be possible to dig a hole from Singapore throu…