Cathedral on Parque Seminaria

This is actually a shot taken from our hotel room. You can see we have gone up market!

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Across to the Pacific coast, on the ‘Ruta del Sol’

September 30th 2007
We have finally reached Guayaquil, the takeoff point for our flight to the Galapagos this Sunday, and the largest city (2 million pax) in Ecuador (you ignorant sods thought Quito was, didn’t you?). Along with being the largest city, it has the largest crime rate, and those that warned us there was little attractive to the tourist about Guayaquil weren’t wrong. It is a big bustling city, and f ... read more

South America » Ecuador » West » Guayaquil

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

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