Hotel Marcelius Guayaquil

... br><br>Guayaquil is a sprawling city, like many in Ecuador and Colombia, but the 'burbs didn't go on forever. In fact it only got really busy about 2 kms from the centre. We came across roads that had been blocked off to accommodate football matches and parties, by simply parking cars and motorbikes across the road. I wonder what the UK police would make of such an action on a Saturday afternoon. We also passed lots of schools, including a ...

... So I go through security check and buy some more hand sanitizer (as LAN had removed my previous batch in NZ) then go to a coffee shop close to Gates 1,2 &amp; 3 to use the Wi-Fi Internet. After a while I think to myself, why are we not boarding? &#8211;this needs further investigation. So I Check Gates 1,2 &amp; 3 and realize there is a gate 4 at the other end of the Lounge. 11 minutes before Departure &#8211; no problem &#8211; WRONG. I arrive with 8 minutes to spare. &#8220 ...

Tuesday began innocently enough, with ten of us (Boli and Tim were to meet with Hogar de Cristo representatives to discuss furthering our involvement in microfinance and water treatment) heading out to two build sites. We arrived at the "country" Hogar office, and soon after, Team Ivan (so named from the maestro they work with) headed out to the first build site. Team Gato would wait for the homeowner of the second site. <br> As it turned out, both teams ...

... friendly insects. i love them, for they are the only insect that remind me of a puppy. Well this one was a little terrifying because it was about 100 times larger than the ones in alaska. It is hard to see in the picture but this grasshopper stretched the length of my forearm. Probably a good 7 inches in length. He just lay there a little confused after hitting a brick wall. He was cute. I throw him in the air as they do in the dove ...

Todaaay... I met up with my trusty friends, Tristan and Markus, and, as usual, walked around the Malecon a bit... and then visited the (free) Municipal Museum, which was pretty interesting, and had several other ceramics that complemented what I had seen at the MAAC Museum the other day. It also had a lot of more detailed explanations of the history of Ecuador. I might go again (since it's free) to read a bit more about it, since I ...

So just to make sure the map of our trip looked totally daft...we went pretty much straight to Guayaquil from Medellin (with a night stop over in Ipiales and Quito). That is about 654 miles!!! Somos estupidas! We had heard a few horror stories about Guayaquil and when we first arrived in the pouring rain and arrived at our hostel near the "death park" (named ...

Guayaquil war irgendwie nicht so ueberwaeltigend. Der Malecón ist ja ganz nett gemacht, der Cerro Santa Ana vom ehemaligen Ghetto in die Veorzeige Touri-Umgebung umgewandelt und im Parque Bolivar die ersten Begegnungen mit Iguanas gemacht. Aber sonst hat die groesste Stadt nicht wirklich viel zu bieten, jedenfalls nichts, was ich gefunden haette. Aber in erster Linie war es ja auch nur Ausgangspunkt zu lohnensweteren Zielen: den Galápagos Inseln!

... However, when I got to the next guy, he asked me if I had paid the first guy. I told him no and he said that it was ok then and not to worry about it but not to overstay my visa again. So, I was very relieved that nothing happened. When I got back on the bus I noticed that there were a few men who had not gotten off and had not gotten their passports stamped. This seemed a bit strange and it got even stranger when we left the border control office, drove ...

lundi 7 octobre de14h a 19h a Guayaquil. centre ville place de la catedrale avec le mini parque zoologique devant ou marche en liberte un tas diguanes terrestres. marche jusquau malecon, puis tout le long du malecon jusquau musee dart contemporain qui paraissait etre genial mais il est ferme le lundi! continuation jusqua la peña, ce quartier sur la colline haut en ...

... 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 of a tourist destination. There is a boulevard along the seafront called the Malecon 2000 which is a pleasant walk catching the sea breeze past various restaurants , fountains , shops , street artists and ...