Cerro Santa Ana Guayaquil

Been here for 2 days now. Nothing special and I wouldn´t recommend going here without an agenda like the Galapagos. There are a couple of colonial buildings, a main down town street "9 of october", Malecon River Walk, iguan Park and finally Cerro Santa Anna which looks like a painted Favella.


The iguana park was Amazing though …

... Malecón 2000 (a newly reconstructed waterfront promenade along Rio Guayas) or sip a beer while admiring the city views from Cerro Santa Ana. Tomorrow morning we are already flying to the Galapagos Islands. It's low season at the moment, so we hope ...

... to the old district of Las Penas. They have determined certain areas for complete renovation entirely transforming part of the Cerro Santa Ana shanty town into clean and touristy places.  They even have ‘before’ and ‘after’ ...

... 2 hours. Guayaquil is actually quite a nice city, though not so geared up for foreign tourists. I had another slow afternoon on Cerro Santa Ana and just wandering up and down the Malecon (waterfront) and started to feel well enough to go on a short ...

...  hang around outside the gate, as they are not allowed in...  At one end of the Malecon is an area called Cerro Santa Ana. This was once a slum area (and is still on the edge of a slum) but has itself been regenerated.  The houses ...

... responsible for the beautiful parks, for remodeling and painting the outsides of all of the homes on Cerro Santa Ana, and for the condition of prosperity Guayaquil had found itself in in recent years. The Malecon was absolutely beautiful, there was no ...

... with its cobbled streets and brightly painted houses, Glenn managed to twist Christie´s arm to climb up over 500 stairs to Cerro Santa Ana (Santa Ana Hill) to see the Church and Lighthouse lookout at the top - ie to take in the view. Needless to say ...

... by the riverfront which was pleasant but the river was a dirty brown colour.    We got to a huge hill 'Cerro Santa Ana' in the neighbourhood of 'Las Peñas'  It had been refurbished into a very quaint hillside village.  We ...

... .  It helps with the heat though.   We returned around 2, and after eating, Jennifer, Alexa, and Saida showed me Cerro Santa Ana.  This is a restored hill at the south end of the malecón.  I say restored because only 2 years ago, it ...

... has an old style galleon doing tours which "Cap'n Dan" got all excited about going on and theres a great walk up the Cerro Santa Ana which you pass by a load of restored colnial houses selling artesans wares, it was quite hot so we took our time walking ...

... the impressive new sea front development, the Malcon. We searched for somewhere to eat, climbing the 400 steps of Cerro Santa Ana and passing dozens of places, mainly bars, distinguished only marginally from each other by the volume of noise emanating ...