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Guayaquil Slideshow
Guayaquil
Travel Blogs from Guayaquil, Ecuador
Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands
... in the highlands of Santa Cruz and at the Charles Darwin Research Centre in Puerto Ayora. After ten amazing days it was time to fly back to mainland Ecuador. We flew back to Guayaquil in the south and immediately jumped on a bus headed for ...
Shrouded mountain
... (a wild relative of domesticated llama). At our highest, 14,000 feet, Rover was still happily chugging along. We returned to Guayaquil briefly to pick up some glasses Steve ordered when we were there a couple weeks ago (his old ones are scratched ...
Bus Riding through the Andes
Partially recovered from the e-coli infestation, we headed out of Cuenca to catch a plane from Guayaquil to Lima. About bus riding in Ecuador. Bus riding in Ecuador is a very distinct experience. We have traveled by bus all over the ...
Hola Ecuador!
... very nice to sleep in a bad after two nice in a (very good, but still...) bus. The day after we continued to Guayaquil, the biggest city in Ecuador, which unlike what we heard about it, was quite nice, have a huge number of KFC-s, and even have a ...
Border Crossing
Tomorrow we finally get to Ecuador, we´re a bit anxious about the border crossing as we´ve heard it can be hot and harrowing, wish us luck XX But yay - Ecuador. I hope it´s as godd as I imagine it to be =) the first stop is the Galapagos, it has ...
Our ship has come in
We're currently in Guayaquil, Ecuador, awaiting paperwork needed from customs to get Rover back. Lada and Rover started their romantic cruise from Panama City January 19 and the ship has arrived here, but we can't get them yet. They were supposed to be ...
More corruption
What a painfull day this was... set off from Mancora by bus for an 8 hour journey to Guayaquil in Ecuador... Good luck with that. Was on the bus with ben and nick two guys i had met in the hostel and as we went to change bus in Tumbes near the border... ...
I hear its not safe?
... anyways. Fuck you Lonely Planet. Guayaquil is definatly worth a few days for any gringo. All you hear across Ecuador is Guayaquil drugs, Quito knife attacks, bla bla...Its comments like this that give a country bad reputations and creating preconceptions ...
Mallrats
... the next best tourist attraction the Malecon which is a newly redeveloped waterfront. This ended our sightseeing in Guayaquil and the next morning we were rudely awakened again, but excited about heading north with our new ...
Pit Stop in Guayaquil
This is a top pick! ... ; The hostal is made up of a large Spanish-style house and several outbuildings, all set into a steep hillside overlooking Guayaquil. There’s a pretty outdoor dining terrace shaded by a flowered arbor, a porch with hammocks and a pool. ...
Sketchy border crossing...
... stopping and starting, lights in my faces, and random passengers that we continued to pick up the whole rest of the way to Guayaquil. Arriving at the bus terminal in Guayaquil I was pretty surprised. It was a very nice terminal! Not like anything I ...
Hva har skjedd etter Machu Picchu?
... var mer enn varmt nok=) Nà har vi endelig kommet oss til Ecuador, som vi hadde höye forventninger til. Landet har sà absolutt levd opp til dem, og etter 3 dager i Gayaquil har vi dratt ...
SOUTH AMERICA TOP 5´s
Its pretty hard, but we are counting them down (in order): Becs´s Top 5: 1. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - loved the laid back culture, all the tame aminals, an especially the snorkelling 2. Inca Trail, Peru - fantastic hike to Machu ...
Just a little more info on Ecuador
... cost to get from the newer city to the old city is $3US, don´t let them charge you more! Guayaquil is supposed to be the second largest city in Ecuador. This city is much more modern, very clean and tons of little parks here and there. This city ...
Største byen i Ecuador
... søt og hyggelig taxi-driver som fikk oss helskinna frem, selv om hun i baksetet hadde til tider hjertet i halsen…Guayaquil er en kjempehyggelig by i Ecuador. Det er Ecuadors største by og er en by med masse folkeliv. Hotellet vårt ligger veldig ...
The Rum Sagas
We had an excellent bus journey here. Well, myself, Cath and Nial did. Richie realised he´d left his camera behind when he boarded and caught a later bus (it was later discovered in his bag the doughnut). The views were all excellent as the bus takes ...
No More Pictures From Here --Utill Quito--
... has good resturants and a nice walkway along the river. Update: Aug. 20, 2008 Alright so I though that my camera got stolen in Guayaquil, but it turns out that I left it at the museum on the equator, back in Quito. After a couple days, I started to ...
Vamos a la playa :-)
... in the morning. At first we had to find out how to get back to Quito on Sunday (of course, you can buy only one-way tickets in Ecuador, so it may happen to you, that you get to a place and can´t get back, as almost happened to us ;) Then we went two more ...
Malecon for me, mal de tête for Richie
... abode by the name of Hotel USA, asked to see a room. Saw one. Then asked if we could see a room that was dry. Guayaquil is Ecuadors largest city and situated on the Guayas River, that flos into the Pacific Ocean. It's a port and has all the hallmarks ...
Guayaquil - better than anticipated
... and probably actually a bit better than expected based on what my guidebook seems to imply. The authorities in Guayaquil are actually making something of an effort to turn the place from what was historically a dodgily unsafe seaport into more ...
Back on the continent
I landed in Guayaquil on monday afternoon, and directly met up with Mauricio. We went to his place, where Amit had arrived the day before, and wher were also staying two girls from Estonia. It was a real pleasure to see Mauricio again, along with his ...
punaaaaaaaaa
... sort of creating life to suit what I want it to be right now. Puna is an island 3 hours off the coast of guayaquil where people live and sustain themselves without real electricity, or water, or anything we would call modern. They fish, a ...
Guayaquil
Guayaquil is a very modern city, it is the biggest city in Ecuador. We were looking for a good deal for the Galapagos islands, but there was no luck there.. We already ate in Burger King, Dunkin´ donuts and KFC :))) so we are having fun here ...
hervir
They boil milk and then eat it in cereal. hot. i mean no. dont do that ecuador. dont. also. i had to smile through a piece of like the most processed hammy meat that has ever existed yesterday. it was... ...
Onward to Quito!
Well, we arrived here in the middle of the night. Just on the street. My partners would chat with the bus driver, trying to find the bus to Quito, so we would just get off, well, who knows where we were! We thought we were stuck here ...
ya mismo and the wrath of a surgeon
Hello Friends and Family, sorry for the delayed entries but life has settled down into a routine here in Guayaquil. After Jeff left last saturday night I woke up Sunday to have a really good catch up day with the family. We shared pictures and ...
Time goes by so slowly....
Mark 13/5: Arrived about 20 past midnight finally. And we were both pretty knackered, but happy to be here as it means that we can get our flight out to the Galapagos. Which the airline will not reply to confirm we are on it. But we are here ...