Montanita Hostels - Reviews and Rates

We had heard a lot of good shtuff about Montinita on our travels, so we were expecting lots from this little hippy beach town, and it didn´t disappoint. Montanita being only 4 hours from the largest city in Ecuador (Guayaquil) it gets really packed out on the weekends. By chance, the weekend we arrived the annual Montanita festival was being hel...

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Retrospective entry to recap the last couple of days in Montanita. Ended up spending an addition day in Montanita (not that this was much of a hard ship) but it was unfortunately in addition to my oesophagitis I had the Ecadorian equivalent of deli belly...nice! Anyway so I missed most of the last day of school. But can now say as w...

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Well, after a very relaxing saturday (nothing to do ith the antics of the night before!!) we decide to take a boat trip to the Isle de Plata, slightly north of Montanita near Peurto Lopez. This has been described as the poor mans Galapagos, so as we´re all poor we thought this would suit us perfectly!!! After a slightly ropey sta...

14th September 2009

Hostal Sol Inn, Puerto lopez, Ecuador (16 usd)

Warmer than out at sea

Today we went whale watching and very fortunately for us, we saw some. The Humpback Whale comes from Antarctica to the coast of Ecuador to mate and the spectacle is witnessed by many people between June and September. It's the end of th...

So I slept well into the morning today, got some stuff done on the ole lappy, and then headed into town, to a fantastic museum, which was free today (every saturday?). It had some excellent exhibitions on religious art from Guayaquil (really beautiful pieces), as well as a really entertaining and informative exhibition of Guayaquil's history as ...

We arrived in Montanita, Ecuador in the middle of Friday night, 16th of January 2009 about 2:20am.  This was after about an hour Collectivo (van turned  bus) ride from Moncura, Peru to Tumbes, Peru.  We were swayed by two men to leave our Collectivo to take the taxi with them where they will guide us across the border to the Huaquillas, Ecuador ...

While still using Quito as our home base, we took a day trip to a beach town called Atacames. The beach wasn´t spectacular but had a good, relaxing vibe, which made for a very fun day. While playing in the ocean, Mike and John discovered they were stepping on live, enormous sand dollars. They were about the size of a pancake. Before we left, Mik...

finalement je quitte Montanita et l Equateur lundi a 5.30 du mat.. y a les elections ce week-end et tout le monde doit aller voter dans sa commune d origine.. ca risque d etre complique de prendre le bus.. sinon rien de bien nouveau ici.. je suis toujours avec Cristian dans notre bungalow.. on fait toujours du surf et de la plage.. comme la mare...

hola je suis bien arrive a montanita. sur la cote ouest de l equateur, pres de salinas.. c etait dur de partir des galapagos... trop magnifique.. un paradis... c etait un dur retour a la realite du monde quand je suis arrive a guyaquil.. des favellas partout.. des pauvres.. des mandiants.. des gens qui te harcelent pour avoir de l argent.. le ta...

In order to get from Atacames to Montañita we would have to first go through Guayaquil (it appeared that this would be the fastest route). However, we had heard that the bus route between Esmeraldas (in the north) and Guayaquil (in the south) can be dangerous. Considering our Colombian experience, we weren't too thrilled about having to take an ...