Hotel Plaza St Rafael Guayaquil
Av Chile 414 & Clemente Ballen Guayaquil, Ecuador
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Child Free Airline next time ...
... be with the cloud cover all the way. Got a peep though as we flew out of Santiago. The 4 hour 45 min flight touched down at Guayaquil, Ecuador at 1.55 pm local time. Turn the clocks back 2 hours. A warm 30 C was outside but inside the terminal for the hour transit wait it was fine.
Departed at 3.15 pm and the 35 min flight LAN 1442 got ...
Break for the border...to Ecuador!
... But it was still there. With the benefit of a bit more time we could look around and it was definitely weird. Most of the shops seemed exclusively to sell American brands. I went to look in a computer shop to see if they had Sennheiser headphones. They sold about five different types…all by that well known headphone specialist General Electric! We had started to notice the differences outside too. Apart from the obvious fact that Ecuador ...
Excess Baggage?
... Essential for dipping in her coffee in the morning and for carrying around as emergency rations. Do they have them in Asia? If not, she's not going.
· Judith's swiss army knife. (twenty fifth birthday present from Mum). Possibly an excessive model as she has not yet found a use for the saw or gadget for getting stones out of horses hooves, nevertheless used most days for opening beer bottles and many other tasks. We are ...
In Transit - Cusco, Lima, Quayaquil, Galapagos
... to Guayaquil. We weren't expecting much of Guayaquil, not really sure why, I guess the guidebooks aren't too kind to it. We really liked it, and were disappointed we could only spend one night there. The Malecón 2000 area was really beautiful, with stunning gardens and plenty of nice places to sit and enjoy them. We also visited Parque Bolivar, which has heaps of iguanas hanging around, as well as tortoises and squirrels. There is a ...
Downtime in Guayaquil
... days are now behind it. At the centre of the regeneration is the boardwalk by the river. It has won Guayaquil an UNESCO award don't you know. The problem for us was the lack of bars and restaurants we expected for lunch, but we found one in the end. Me and Katy went for a bar food platter of sorts, fried stuff with cheese. Obviously the type of food to avoid in South America, bit of a disaster, you're better off leaving such things to their cousins in the north. After lunch ...
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