Guayaquil, Ecuador Travel Blogs

... many of you may not even have heard about the place. But maybe it makes more sense when I tell you that Guayaquil is Ecuador's biggest city (apparently bigger than the capital Quito), a gateway to the Galapagos Islands (all flights go through here), they ...

A travel blog entry by stevefn
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An overnight bus journey, two cab rides with I know you^re ripping us off, but yourê so cheap and I´m so tired we don,t care.Then another bus trip we arrived at a huge bus station in the middle of nowhere, so another cab ride to a nice little hotel just ...

A travel blog entry by martinandheike
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... I said that all the stuff in the bag was for the locals! so they let us off... Friendly people. We only had 1 full day in Guayaquil due to the Spanish course in Mendoza but wish we had more. It is not really on the tourists "Gringo Trail". We will be ...

A travel blog entry by caznjasonescape
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... because we were still miles (literally) above the clouds. We descended over 4000 metres to the tropical (steaming) port of Guayaquil. There were once parts of this port where even Ecuadorians would not have dared visit. As our guide said "they would ...

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Alex: Well after the missed flight debacle we finally made it to Guayaquil. This is the biggest city in Ecuador and generally not very highly rated by travellers but it is the commercial centre, which suited us as we needed to replace our camera and find a ...

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... on the roof. After the train ride finished in Alausi, we caught a bus up and over a high mountain range which took us above the clouds, and down into the tropical climate around Guayaquil, for a quick overnight stop, before our flight to the Galapagos.

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... . In the waiting lounge we get talking to a couple from Sweden who can speak spanish and tell us the airline didn´t mention are Guayaquil to quito flight would leave the next morning and we would be staying in a hotel overnight. Excellent, we´re in no rush. ...

simon soooo doesn´t wanna leave here!!! stayed in Guayaquil central this time, needn´t have bothered, it´s pretty ordinary, the most exciting thing was seeing men with machine guns out of the top of armoured vehicles. the Malecon 2000 is highly ...

Did I get your attention with my catchy title? It´s actually not all that exciting...from what I remember... Anyhow, I´m in Guayaquil now. I had no real interest in seeing the city; it´s big, hot, and it´s had the long-held reputation of being ripe with crime ...

Today was my last day in Guayaquil... booo.. tomorrow I'm off to Riobamba, a bit North in the mountains...  Apparently it takes about 5 or 6 hours (tops?) so I'm thinking of leaving nice and early so that I don't arrive too late.  I'll also be ...

This is an entry more for the sake of getting another map pin (I like the map pins). Guayaquil was not that great. Its an ok city (or even quite a niceish city) but the people are not nearly as friendly as they are elsewhere in Ecuador. Its hot and ...

Another dodgy bus journey to Guayaquil (5Hrs) over rough dirt roads, with dodging landslides every 10mins and getting off for the police control check whereby everyone was lined up and searched head to toe. Arriving at the smartest bus station we had ever ...

... a lot less logistics anyway. We went back to the library for the Lonely Planet guide and found the botanical gardens outside Guayaquil and Stephanie thought seeing something beautiful might do the trick. We planned to give that a try the next day, and ...

... spécialité culinaire, le « cuy » (un cochon d'Inde rôti entier). Même Seb n'a pas été tenté par une patte de hamster ! Guayaquil est notre dernière escale avant notre croisière aux Galápagos. Le 30 avril, nous apprenons la naissance de la petite Camille, qu'on ...

... immer heisser worde, vo 20 Grad und Wulche bis fast 30 Grad und Sunne. Jetzt simmer no e letschti Nacht im tropische und wilde Guayaquil bis es morn heiwaerts gaht. D Romy muess bereits am 5i am Morge ufs Taxi an Flughafe und ich fluege am Abig am 8i uf ...

... of May, was another nice day in Guayaquil.  I hung out with Andrea, Diana, Juan Carlos, and Elizabeth (all CSers from Guayaquil), as well as Tristan, a really nice CSer from Medellin, Colombia.  We all met at the malecon and hung out most of the ...

We spent a sticky, smoggy day in Ecuador's largest, and most hectic city, Guayaquil. We no longer think Panama City cab drivers are crazy...in fact, they are downright cautious compared to Guayaquil cabbies.....of course the Panamanians have ...

I visited the beautiful Guayaquil cemetary in the morning, and I'll go watch a movie with a friend this evening...

... on to Guayaquil, Ecaudor´s biggest city (though not the capital).  It´s very hot here compared to Puerto Lopez. Guayaquil hasn´t got a lot going for it - its apparently traditionally thought of as being a bit dirty and dangerous and not a& ...

... the Equator running through the country East to West and also the Andes mountains running North to South. She explained how Guayaquil was experiencing a time of relative prosperity, compared to the way things had been only a few years earlier. Where bamboo ...

... , a bus took us over to the airport. Before long, we were onboard and leaving the Galápagos. It was a smooth flight to Guayaquil where we deplaned, briefly, during refueling. Then we took the half hour flight to Quito. I had been confused about when our ...

... quite a laugh from the sight of us being towed.       We spent the night of March 26th in Guayaquil, in a hotel next to the airport. We rose early in the morning VERY excited to be heading to the Galapagos Islands.   & ...

... we had the home built in less that 3 hours!   We headed back aqnd showered, as we were to have a late lunch at the Guayaquil Tennis Club. There--across the river, but a world away from where we have worked the last 2 days, we met Chom Alfaro, Boli's ...

It'll be a short one today since we didn't do much. I spent the morning on the ship trying to work, and I imagine I must have done something since I didn't leave the ship until like 1:00. Today we were going to the IMAX. We'd been seeing advertisements ...

... Lima moesten we ook weer pijlsnel door noord Peru want 1 mei vertrekt onze vlucht naar de Galapagos eilanden vanaf Guayaquil. Dus dat waren zo´n 10 busuren naar het noordelijker gelegen plaatsje Trujillo. Hier hebben we nog ruines bezocht van de Moche- ...

... ; No big deal because I am HERE!   My Auntie Pilar, married my Uncle Stan (my mom's brother,) is from Guayaquil Ecuador.  I have been meaning to meet up with some cousins and other family members since arriving to South America but my ...

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... really nice, and Liz copied that John Denver cd for me after that, since my computer ate mine when its hard drive crashed a month before this trip started. Well that's all from Ecuador, everybody. Muchisimo Gracias por todo y te extraños mucho! Te adoro!