Ramada Hotel Guayaquil

After Cuenca was Guayaquil, south-west Ecuador. Totally different to the other places I´ve visited in Ecuador as its tropical and flat, as opposed to the little villages I´ve gone through in the highlands beforehand.<br><br>Guayaquil has a fantastic malecon running along the river for a few kms. It has a statue of Simon Bolivar and loads of food court, ice-cream stalls, shops, places to sit, artesan market etc. Was lush to walk along here ...

... br><br>Guayaquil is a much more modern city then either Quito or Cuenca. We haven't seen one single person in national dress although it was very common elsewhere in Ecuador. The 'promenade' , the 'Malecon' which runs along the the river estuary is wonderful...beautifully designed with interesting features dotted along it. It's a great place to walk or sit and watch people and it's also great for children as there are well kept playgrounds too and at the moment (it might be a special ...

... of small stands filled with various piles of produce, flip flops, pirated movies and whatever else you may ever think you need. Afterwards, we went to a park downtown where iguanas crawled all over and filled the trees. There was also a laguna with tortoises and schools of tilapia swimming around. I wondered if the iguanas ever escaped, but Diana said they were happy there. Still, I wish I could see what ...

... br><br>Bexy was beautifully animated and completely present. She watched every board be placed, and every nail be nailed, and because of our language barrier, she used tears and hugs to say "thank you." <br><br>Throughout the day, and as was the case at most of our build sites, neighbors congregated to help and children loomed curiously to receive the prized stickers and toys that had traveled with us from the United States. While ...

... is geweest tot nu toe. De stad Cusco, Machu Picchu en Huacachina waren zeker ontzettend gaaf, en waarschijnlijk beinvloed het gestolen tas verhaal mijn mening ook nogal maar toch... Peru is in mijn beleving een beetje het toeristencentrum van Zuid-Amerika en dat feit wordt ook nogal uitgebuit. Give me Patagonia anyday!!

... es que cada vez que veo un edificio bonito, le tomo foto porque sé que te gustará mucho ver arquitectura diferente a la de las casas con las escaleras por fuera de Cali. Según nos han contando, ha llovido de seguido en Guayaquil por los últimos tres días. Pero, todo eso cambió cuando nosotros llegamos! jejejeje, cuando caminabamos por el malecón, habia un resto de sol, luego fuimos a un mercado artesanal y ahí empezó a ...

... the sun at the centre of the park, unmoved by the tourists´ pokes and prods, stooping over them, grinning for photos. One toddler in particular seemed to enjoy dragging the poor iguanas around by their tails, unphased by the fact that they were roughly the same size as him! A more daring older girl decided to feed the iguanas, and ended up with four hanging from her arms and legs! The following day, we walked through a colourful ...

... to go, was to trek in the Cordillera Huayhuash. I was familiar with the Cordillera Huayhuash from reading Joe Simpson's book, Touching the Void, and always wanted to visit it, but when Tessa, a kiwi girl we met trekking Salkantay, told us trekking the Huayhuash was the highlight of her visit to South America so far, seeing it suddenly became one of my top priorities. Cordillera Huayhuash... The classic route ...

Left Montanita last night with the bus to Guayaquil and its quite amazing how cool the bus was, almost no people at all...lots of space, comfortable...so apart from loud blastic shooting movies everything else was just great and cost only 5$.... <br><br>Got picked up by Kahyda, girl from Coachsurfing and even though it was a bit chaotic and crazy in her house because besides me she also had a polish couple and an italian guy staying over...it was great fun, we went out and met bunch of ...

... by far Im sure this is the best place to find a girlfriend, wife, belly warmer or what have you. Th women here ar generally very modest and not too bragadocious which I like, thy are "low keyd beauties". Im travling with my novia from Iquitos as we speak. (read past post) The bad: There is nosun for 7 months. Due to the fact of the place it falls on the earth near the andes mountains there is a fog for 7 months of the ...