Guayaquil

We flew from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Miami via Houston. From Miami, we flew to Guayaquil, Ecuador, via Quito, Ecuador. From Guayaquil, we took a 3 hour bus ride to Cuenca, Ecuador, up in the Andes Mountains. We plan to spend the next two months here. ...

... USA will go to Guayaquil, Ecuador, to build 8 homes for the poorest of the poor, in partnership with a ministry based in Guayaquil named Hogar de Cristo (Homes of Christ). They leave June 26, arriving late that night, and will build one home on the 27th, ...

... allowed ourselves the smallest of sleep-ins the next day, before heading off out to get the infamous Jipijapa express back to Guayaquil. We walked it through Puerto Lopez with the packs and located the "bus station". It was pretty unclear whether it was ...

... were construction projects everywhere, a new Metro system, a newly cleaned up downtown and a modernized waterfront. I'd never even heard of Guayaquil! With 3 million people it was a combination of Miami, San Diego, and Lisbon. We took a $5 cab ride ...

... larger than the capital, Quito. It is located in the south of Ecuador right at the inner tip of a bay like area. Guayaquil is significantly warmer, more humid, and lower (in elevation) than Quito. And the especially exciting part is that I have never ...

... and smell it....i wont go on....but its something that stays in your mind....all part of travelling i guess..... I got into Guayaquil Monday afternoon....into Lima Mark 2....total chaos!....and it began with the one of the straps on my rucksack ...

... , it is manic and fierce. Today is 30 degree C. I head out to 9 October street.     This is downtown Guayaquil. It's chaotic! People are streaming around everywhere. I'm yet to be propositioned, but I'm fully alert to my surroundings! For this ...

... we felt very much like we were in the deep south, except with fields of bananas, cacao, and sugarcane.  Outside of Guayaquil, where we stayed, felt like the suburbs of Miami with its very attractive middle-class homes in gated communities, as well ...