Blogs from Guayaquil, West, Ecuador, South America - page 3

Walked the city of Guayaquil all day in 42cel heat! Lovely colours, buildings, and iguanas. In the midst of being drenched with sweat we got interviewed in Santa Ana for a Chinese TV station about our experiences there-funny. City is always busy and crossing the downtown streets a wild gamble. Our hostel (casa Romero) was nice and staff very helpful. Off to Galapolos now. Just got through the very efficient and helpful airport. Photos to follow. AdiOS!... read more

At the end of our trip, we spent a few days in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city. It was in this largest city, we spent a few hours with the largest Iguanas we have ever seen, Parque Seminario, appropriately nicknamed Iguana Park. This park, located smack dab in the center of the concrete jungle, is full of hundreds of these seemingly out of place creatures. Ironically, they seem to co-exist quite well with the human spectators walking about, but a few of them didn’t seem to co-exist so peacefully with each other. We witnessed a serious Iguana fight between two males who appeared to be doing a dance of dominance in hopes of winning a female Iguana nearby. Later that day, we hiked up the 466 stairs (they are numbered) to the top of one of the ... read more

Geo: -2.20382, -79.8975Finalmente despues de un año aca estamos agregando un nuevo viaje al blog ahora ECUADOR .... la verdad que cuando pense en ecuador pense basicamente en galapagos pero al investigar un poco me di cuenta de la gran diversidad de este pequeño pais (se puede ir en bus de la frontera sur a la norte en 12 horas app.) y por eso extendi mi estadia por aca aunque aun asi se que se me hara corto... estos dias he estado en guayaquil instalado basicamente por la asamblea porque no hay mucho que ver por aca y mañana se podria decir que recien empieza mi viaje propiamente tal, parto hacia la sierra a la ciudad de cuenca.....basicamente el pais se divide en 4 partes galapagos - la costa - la sierra - el oriente....todos bien ... read more

For our last two weeks here, we get to experience clinics in Guayaquil, the more metropolitan city next to Duran. The best comparison I can make is that Duran (where we live) is like Camden and Guayaquil is like Philly. The two clinics we are visiting each day are called Hospital IESS and the Padre Damien House. The Hospital IESS is a social security hospital, meaning that those that have social security (people who work with W2s and retired people, and their families) can be treated here. The hospital looks like it´s from a different world compared to the clinics we were working at in Duran. The hospital is big, with many specialists offices and it´s super clean. They have a lab onsite and X-Rays and CT scans, though they still have to send people elsewhere ... read more

Lieve iedereen, Na een ruime vakantie van 4 weken waarin we de reis op ons gemakje hebben kunnen voorbereiden, zijn we dan eindelijk begonnen aan ons GROTE avontuur! Terugkijkend op alle afspraken, etentjes, het afscheidsfeest, koffies, borrels en andere gezelligheid kunnen we de conclusie trekken dat het toch wel heel bijzonder is om zoveel lieve mensen om je heen te hebben, zoveel mensen die er bij stil staan dat je weg gaat en je graag nog even willen zien. Je beseft je dus op dit soort momenten hoe fijn en waardevol het is om familie en vrienden om je heen te hebben. We willen jullie nogmaals bedanken voor alle vormen van afscheid, kadootjes, aandacht, kaartjes, smsjes, telefoontjes en zorgen die we hebben mogen ontvangen. Het doet ons goed. We nemen jullie in gedachten allemaal mee op ... read more