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Guayaquil..the last stop

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November 24th 2006
Stopping in Guayaquil before zooming off to Chile, what a contast with what we´ve seen so far. In the morning, in Cuenca, you could still see elderly campesino ladies carrying their burden of goods for sale, and as usual, dressed in their usual colourful dresses and hats. Arriving at the gleaming new Guayaquil airport, in a taxi to the centre, the road in was very new, motorway wide, very modern, ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Guayaquil

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more