Suites Guayaquil

... Macdonalds and a KFC, not to mention numerous New York styled coffeee houses. Businessmen bustled from here to there with briefcases elbowing you out the way like londoners in a queue for the underground.<br><br>I began to wonder actually what country We´d arrived in and so we booked on the nearest bus out of there to the coast in search of the real Ecuador.<br>

... because of the recession), but we ended up booking a mid range boat for more money because it had an awesome itinerary. 90% of the boats go to similar spots on similar islands (generally the closer ones to the main town), but this boat was one of only a few (and the only non luxury boat) to travel to the more remote places further afield. We´d see far fewer tourists and get to enjoy the Galapagos more like Darwin would have seen it when he first ...

... well last year--Gato &amp; Ivan--we built in record time. After a trip to a roadside cantina (named "2 Degrees South" by Mitch Purvis last year), we are now back at Schoenstatt, showered, and looking forward to dinner at 6:00.<br> it has been a very good first day. we feel good about the first build, and look forward to another one tomorrow! Tune in tomorrow evening for the next installment!

... von mir.<br>Guayaquil ist für mich auch nur Durchreise gewesen....es ist für Ecuador eine recht gefährliche Stadt. Alle Fenster sind durchweg vergittert. Komische Leute streunern schon mal durch die Gassen....es hat mich nicht begeistert....<br>

So yesterday I took an all day bus from Quito back to Guayaquil. I spent several nice days in Quito visiting the "mitad del mundo" (center of the world, where the equator runs through) and other cool stuff, but it´s definitely nice to be back in ...

... area is down by the harbour, there is an area very similar to the Faviela in Brazil, this is where the locals live. You can climb 448 steps to reach a light house with a cracking view of the city. We are here for a couple of days before we head off to the Galapagos. One thing to note "Una Via" is not a street name it means "one way". Ask Jeanette about this.

Estoy en ecuador y ahora aprende que mi espanol es HORRIBLEEE was much easier last time with matt. i can speak spanish slowlyyyyyyyyy but is very hard to understand people that are talking 100000 mph. i got to guayaquil and stayed with my friend mariuxi. we just hung out for the first day and did nada mucho. it sucks because i was planning on going with mariuxis bro oscar to montanita for new years but he went to get gas ...

Guayaquil (pronounced whyakill) is a long way on a slow bus on dirt roads through mountains from Baños... a long long way, that and apparently I didn´t take the most direct route.. however the scenery was stunning, passing across the andes from the Amazon side to la costa. I arrived in Guayaquil without somewhere booked to stay however I did email the Guayaquil couchsurfing group (for more info www.couchsurfing.com) and within 24 hours and when I arrived I ...

... to help people with arthritis. Tumbes... Tumbes is the major transport hub near what is described in the Lonely Planet as the worst border crossing in South America. It didn't disappoint. The Lonely Planet recommended taking a Cifa bus from Tumbes into Ecuador, as did friend and former Trujillo resident, Darrell. It would be cheap, and should be largely hassle free. When we got off our bus from Trujillo we ...

Moving on from Cuenca I travel to Guayaquil Ecuador´s largest city, only for one night before I catch my flight to the Galapagos Islands..... The journey from Cuenca to Guayaquil was again another amazing trip, though, through the Andes. There are two routes from Cuenca to Guayaquil, one via Cañar and the other and shorter route is through the Cajas national park. Luckily this route turned out to go through ...