Ramada Hotel Guayaquil

... with a table, some pegs on the wall for clothing and a small double bed that has walls on two sides. The floor is tiled without any covering and the room has no heating. At night at this altitude it gets cold and we have to get dressed to go to bed.

The bed has a duvet that spans the top of the bed but does not flow over the sides. It looks OK until two bodies get into it, at which point the duvet no longer spans the bed. This sparks a lively discussion as to who has more ...

... pleasant. It was a really lovely walk with some nice cafes and a mixture of modern and restored architecture. At the northern end of this "Malecon" is a restored neighbourhood which has been spruced up with a lick of paint and some flowers and nice walkways which lead up the hill to a lookout over the city. The view isn't so great but the neighbourhood, Las Penas, is really nice and I was impressed that the city has renovated what was once a very rundown area.

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... explore a potential water project for a future trip, we got two homes built in about three hours each. We are "in the groove" now, and very optimistic about our next two days of building.
All is well here. All the guys are working hard, there is great camaraderie among the group, with loads of laughter mixed in. Rest assured that your friends and loved ones here are representing you, Peachtree Presbyterian, and Jesus very well!

... it. The sign is about 10 inches square so it didn't exactly jump out at me. I settled into my room and crashed. I spent two nights there and didn't do much other than walk along the malecon. The city didn't appeal much but the malecon was a pretty design and a pleasant place to hang out.

... right by the sand, which charged $1 to get in, and where we danced until 5am. I barely stopped a couple of times dancing to go eat a ($2) delicious cheese/egg/ham hamburger as well as when we took Andrea back to the hostel around 2am when she was tired. After finishing dancing, we hung out at the beach while the day became a bit more illuminated, and then finally headed back to the hostel. I slept from around 6 am to 8am or so, and ...

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The week we spent on the coast in Ecuador was a relax one. At first we've been treated like kings in Guayaquil by Denise, a friend of Massimo's oncle Sandro: not only she's hosted us in her fantastic apartment but also she's been our "Cicerone"/guide on a beautiful tour of Guayaquil. She's explained to us the reconstruction the city has been undergoing over the last 8 years and which is still ...

... and came to the conclusion that if I saw other gringos IŽd accost them and travel with them. Got to the bus station which was really modern and I immediately felt safe there unlike some other bus stations over here. This one was Heathrow standards! Got some food and went to suss out the bus situation. I enquired at a desk which I had heard was a reputable company and before I knew I was roped into getting a bus in 5 minsutes - I sorely regretted not upgrading to the bus ...

... see Guayaquil before our flight, a place many recommend to avoid. The man at the hostel warned to take a registered taxi for fear of being taken hostage. I assumed the minimum wage for the driver just wasn't cutting it. Guayaquil was most definitely a city of have and have not's. The discrepancies in wealth are stark. The rich are still driving around with the "NO" signs on their Mercedes, in protest to the new constitution. If the poor had cars I'm sure there ...

Stayed in Puerto Lopez for a few days, drank a few cocktails on the beach, nearly always overcast so not as perfect as we had hoped, but we went whale watching which was cool. At this time of the year, humpbacked whales come to mate and calve off the waters here. The males attract a mate by making as much noise as possible, by singing, which you can hear from the boat, splashing their huge fins off the water ...