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Guayaquil Slideshow
Guayaquil
Travel Blogs from Guayaquil, Ecuador
Guayaquil, Ecuador
... and realised that they were above our heads in the trees. Some of them were huge.... Up to a metre long!! Our one evening in Guayaquil was spent in the "place to be". The Kennedey Mall, supposedly full of pubs, bars and clubs - it turned out to be ...
Wondering the Malecón
Laura and I started our adventure in the Urdesa neighborhood of Guayaquil getting settled in to the culture (well, the micro-culture of our gringo-paradise in the hostel and finally onto the city´s boardwalk and cuisine). It´s a dang big city and ...
First Blast
Hello friends and family! Sorry it has taken me several days to write you an update on my whereabout. You´ll be happy to know that I arrived safely in Quayaquil and have been settling in quite ...
Reasons to love the big mud city (1 of 2)
We did not come to Guayaquil to see the place. Ecuador's main port, Guayaquil gets its name from the muddy, dark Guayas River that froths by the shacks and modern buildings of the city. It's more dangerous than Quito and crowded, even ...
puerto lopez to guayaquil via the bathroom
... and waved albatross. But then the diarrhea started, which has not been so cool, so at the moment we are holed up in Guayaquil, not daring to move more than twenty paces from the nearest toilet! When we eventually ventured from the room we walked ...
Tombs, hats, and no RWC
... of living is another good reason to live here. Tuesday morning I was up early'ish and after breakfast I got the bus to Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest and most dangerous city. The city is on the river Guayas and close to the coast. It was sacked by ...
To make you happy you're stuck at work.
... we got on the next bus! Recently we had a very "local" bus experience. We were trying to get from Canoa in Ecuador to Montanita. There were no direct buses, so when we arrived in the station we were ushered by about 6 men onto a bus ...
Livin!
... ! Gooooooood news! CAMERA IS BACK. So there will be some pictures attached on this entry! Things have been great here in Guayaquil. I'm finally starting to get over that study-abroad hump of really missing home and feeling insanely out of place. I mean, ...
Worst bus ride ever, not our favourite city either
hola We are now in our last town in Ecuador pity cause it is the worst!!!!! Although it is trying to reedeem itself slowly. The bus ride here was the worst for other reasons it was very safe in comparision to the last bus ride. However, it took ...
Ecuador
... had been contacting doesn't speak English very well so some details got lost in translation. Danny and I went to the airport in Guayaquil trying to get airline tickets to the Galapagos and we were told that all the flights were booked. After spending a ...
Equador Impressions
Back in Guyaquil where my Airplane was parked @ ARICA , the Manager Xavier explained and complained about how corrupt the Equador Goverment here is, I agree ...... At the Airport I probably need the rest of the Day to prepare everything for my Flight ...
Ecuador
Guayaquil is a strange city, it's Ecuadors biggest and is as dirty and crazy as you'd expect. Our taxi driver thought he was Michael Schumacher or something and drove like a madman. Mind you most of the other drivers seemed to think they were racing ...
Ecuador
Guayaquil is a strange city, it's Ecuadors biggest and is as dirty and crazy as you'd expect. Our taxi driver thought he was Michael Schumacher or something and drove like a madman. Mind you most of the other drivers seemed to think they were racing ...
stairs lot's and lot's of stairs :)
So i arrived at Guayaquil at 8:30 am in the morning where my friend Gabriel was waiting already for 2 hours since there was some miscommunication :S auch he was just about the head the other way... After arriving at his home where he lives with his sister ...
Chill
Got some food when to this pretty nice park on the river where it was really modern. Went to the Imax for 3 bucks and say gallopagos with some American girls we ...
Ecuadors stoerste og varmeste by!
D. 23.03 Vi skulle 4timer med offentlig transport fra Cuenca til Guayaquil, heldigvis kunne vi bestille pladser og der var aircondition saa det var slet ikke saa slemt som vi regnede med. Desvaerre var det ikke kun Alexander der kunne maerke ...
Ecuador
The sole reason for being here was to collect the car, and the short amount of time spent sight-seeing confirmed that this was pretty much the only reason to go there. Except for the best meals we'd had in weeks (home cooked at the B&B). ...
A very sweet welcome to Ecuador!
... if I didn't find it, would've been a long walk back to Tumbes! Anyways, got through no dramas and the drive to Guayaquil was beautiful. Rows and rows of banana plants and little wooden houses on stilts and people selling things on the side of the road ...
New host fam/UEES
... the volunteering is really great! I felt bad about skipping it this morning. Monday-Thursday from 9-12 I take a bus down into downtown Guayaquil, to a home called Sor Domingo Bocca. It's a home for girls that would otherwise be on the street. They're all ...
Living Here
... my host family. They're a great couple, and have really made me feel at home. I'm not really living in Guayaquil. The university is actually located in an area adjacent to Guayaquil that's called Samborondon. We all live in gated ...
Layin low in Guayaquil
... to convince me to move onward. So I said my goodbyes to my Danish friends and Alejandro, and boarded the bus to Guayaquil, which according to Lonely Planet, is actually the largest city in terms of population in Ecuador. It was only about a 3 ...
A night of many naps
Guayaquil was really more of a stop over. We tried our first equadorian cuisine here...cool. I'm mostly writing now to vent my anger towards the bus trip we took to get here. All i wanted to do on this bus was sleep. I should have known it'd be a ...
Escape from Bolivia
... at home to shame......really sad to see TGIF, Cinnabon etc blotting the landscape. Tonight we are at a Rotary Club meeting with the Guayaquil Occidente Club abd as soon as our intrepid pair from Canada join us tomorrow we are off to the school at Santa ...
that´s right, a bus
... end I suppose I pay pretty much the same regardless. So moving right along... I took the bus from Bahia to Guayaquil a leisurely 4 hour jaunt and arrived at Guayaquils insane terminal. Three floors of a bus station with a really modern inside ...
golpeando en la pera
... nuevos, lo pruebo todo! Despues de varias horas nos sorprende un rio como mar que baja torrentoso por su cauce y un Guayaquil moderno que nos da un abrazo caluroso y humedo. Nos espera Andres, antiguo en nuestras vidas y nuestras costumbres chilenas, ...
Ecuador
... music of Scotland and more.We have a nice group of friends on board,so always someone to catch up with. Wednesday; Manta ,Ecuador.. Everthing I read of Manta was negitive,and so didnt expect much,well quite a pleasant surprise...On a perfect morning we ...