Hotel Las Penas Guayaquil

... seems a lighter atmosphere, everyone is much more relaxed and I'm guessing the cool night is helping. I climb those stairs again, of Las Penas and pick a bar. I grab one beer and enjoy watching a group of 5 young ladies sing some karaoke. I've brought my ...

So just to make sure the map of our trip looked totally daft...we went pretty much straight to Guayaquil from Medellin (with a night stop over in Ipiales and Quito). That is about 654 miles!!! Somos estupidas! We had heard a few ...

... a bit of a rabbit warren and the room had strong chemical smell and no window - but it did have air conditioning! A must, as Guayaquil was boiling compared to the other places we had been to in Ecuador (and as an added bonus it was good to recycle that ...

... boardwalk that they call Malecon, where the locals spend their evenings and weekends walking around.  At the north end, there are the Las Penas, a cute area with bars, clubs, restaurants, and a lighthouse with a great view of the city. I went out on ...

... ' lane at night, as there is a couple at every park bench! We went out looking for food and walked down to the Las Penas neighborhood (old part of town that goes up a hill).  There are 400 steps up the hill, each step conveniently ...

... out with her brother oscar because he is on vacation.  we went to all different places around the city and saw cool things. las penas a huge hill with a great view and the new malecon or riverfront in guayaquil is really cool.  i will post some ...

... Galapagos to be somewhere that commercial, we could have been anywhere in the world really. When we made it to our hotel and the centre of Guayaquil we realise we weren't going to have too many problems finding a camera, literally every other shop was an ...

Made a short stop in Guayaquil on our way to Cuenca.. was perfect to recharge. Guayaquil had a really nice waterfront promenade so we spent the day walking along there. It ended at an area called ´Las Penas´  -  a part of the old town with ...

... more than we needed for the evening - just small change. We headed back after the visiting the bars in the artisan old quarter, Las Penas, which is perched on a hill with old houses dating back some 400 years or so. The following morning we were on the ...

... a day. The Malecón was beautiful with its gardens so we walked there and visited local markets and the mall. We had a nice room in Hotel Las Peñas, in the middle of the centre. I got ripped off in a local tourist shop which I only realised later in ...

... the Malecon 2000 I stepped lup the 444 stairs in Las Penas to the lighthouse and the Fortin del Cerro. Interesting part about Las Penas: this was a very rundown neighbourhood. Then the houses leading up to the cerro got a total makover and nowadays each ...

... Sundays at all anyway!   That afternoon we walked along the waterfront promenade which was lovely and then to Las Penas and Cerro Santa Ana.  These are restored historic neighbourhoods with brightly painted houses and cobblestone ...

... it with a breeze trying to combat the heat. It is nicely lit at night too. At the northern end is a nice neighbourhood called Las Penas. cobblestone streets lead you up a hill to the site of the defensive fort and a lighthouse on the top. The views are ...

... Skype and letting them know about the pregnancy. Later in the evening we headed off to the old town area on a hill called Las Penas. There are two adjacent hills covered in brightly painted wooden houses and radio masts.    At the bottom was a ...

... the city. It's more dangerous than Quito and crowded, even if it is pleasantly warm. Not many tourists make it to Guayaquil; indeed most who come to Ecuador only see the airport in Quito and the Galápagos Islands. Shay and I only came ...

... in the city centre and gentrifying the river promenade, which now provides a lovely walk north to the old district of Las Penas. They have determined certain areas for complete renovation entirely transforming part of the Cerro Santa Ana shanty town into ...

... flight was fine and we got back to Guayaquil with no problems. For the evening we headed out to Calle Las Penas, which is a very cool district in Guayaquil that was restored about ten years ago. It is basically a hill with 444 steps to a lighthouse and ...

... ) 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 ...

... ; The Malecon comes to an end at the base of a hill which used to be a favela, or slum area, known as Las Penas.  Today it has been transformed into a touristy district of pastel coloured clapboard houses, winding cobbled streets, artists' workshops ...

... me, excited, with 6 cups of coffee excited. so after dinner jeff, martita and i decided to explore the nightlife of the city and went to las penas this hill that is lit up with a bunch of bars and a great view of the city.  we got to the top and ...