What you need to enter Ecuador with a Tongan passport

The Galápagos Islands: different entry rules

Having entered Ecuador does not give you access to the Galápagos. Anyone arriving in the province as a tourist or in-transit traveller needs the Transit Control Card issued by the Governing Council of the Special Regime, required under article 29 of its rules and costing 20 dollars for adults, with under-twos exempt. You show it both entering and leaving the province. You can pre-register online and collect it at the Council's own counters in the Quito and Guayaquil airports.

Source: gob.ec, "Emisión de tarjeta de control de tránsito para turistas y transeúntes"; gobiernogalapagos.gob.ec (comprobado 18/09/2026)

Required documents

• A passport valid for at least six months
• Health insurance, public or private, valid for the whole of your stay in the country (Art. 53 of the Organic Law on Human Mobility and Executive Decree 111, enforceable since 1 May 2018)
• A tourist stay of up to 90 days within a one-year period counted from your first entry, extendable once by up to 90 more days inside Ecuador, on application and payment of the fee to the migration control authority
• If you are a national of a South American country, the tourist stay is up to 180 days within a one-year period counted from your first entry

Health insurance

Mandatory for this destination.

When travel insurance is mandatory → Travel insurance policies ↓

Transit rules

As a tourist, the authorised stay is up to 90 days within a one-year period counted from the first entry, extendable once for up to 90 additional consecutive days, upon request and payment of the corresponding fee.