Unipark Guayaquil

After Cuenca was Guayaquil, south-west Ecuador. Totally different to the other places Iīve visited in Ecuador as its tropical and flat, as opposed to the little villages Iīve gone through in the highlands beforehand.

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 ...

... a botanical garden.
There are museums, cinemas, cafes and restaurants too.

The other very pretty area is the old town barrio called Las Penas. It is a steep walk up to the top of the hill (444 steps) but is worth it for the views from the top where there is a restored lighthouse and a church. The houses have all been renovated (some have photos outside to show what they were like before) and look very quaint. The area is supposed to be full of shops and restaurants ...

... which is a green fruit the size of a watermelon that I can only describe as delicious. That night Diana and I took the midnight bus back to Quito. Since there is not much traffic at that hour, the bus was practically flying up the Andes. I knew better than to see how close we were to the cliff’s edge so I just closed my eyes and listened to the traditional Andean pipe flute music coming from the speakers…

... us into the fabric of these neighborhoods, even if for a short time. We really were not there to construct bamboo houses. We were there to be a light in a very dark world of poverty - in a place where babies are born without medical care on the wooden floors of one-room huts; where schools are too difficult to find; where treatable medical conditions go untreated; where corruption is ever present; and where jobs are far and few between.

... my stuff at her apartment) with Kahyda downtown. While Kahyda was working I had a blast walking through Guayaquil's streets, which does remind me a lot of Lima, but it seems a lot more crowded (maybe because I was in the downtown area?). There are several beautiful parks, including the "iguana park", which is famous for having tooons of iguanas crawling all over the place. Then I walked down to the (somewhat newly renovated - a few years ...

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... and going through Customs could not have been easier. We were thinking that our day was too good to be true. What storm was brewing we wondered? Same deal with our flight to Quito.....gulping down water. We were totally prepared to land in Quito. Altitude, what altitude? As our plane was descending, wheels out and all, our plane lifted back upward into the sky. The captain came on and told us ...

... good place to vacation. Ecuador is a beautiful small country, the Andes Mountainns are breathtaking! With its waterfalls, the most beeautiful beaches that Ive ever seen, fresh water streams and oh, I forgot the king of banana exportation. Its hot as the diickens in Guyaquil though. The reaction of a new president of the united states has been very positive! Were movig up in the world folks, no thanks to G.W.B. The ...

... have redeveloped the waterfront, now called Malecon 2000, which was nice enough - it has gated and guarded entrances with gardens, fountains and plenty of shops and eateries inside and is full of local families with children, etc. All the beggars and hawkers hang around outside the gate, as they are not allowed in... At one end of the Malecon is an area called ...

... of the Month in Melbourne. I will not spoil the content, but with two new releases, the work is indeed being sped up. the program is rapid as there are more talks in the same amount of time. The English Assembly in Ecuador is like a mini international with an average of 1140 in attendance. The number of Areas represented was as if it would have been easier to read the Congregations that we had not heard from. If you want to apply bible principles ...