Travel Guide – A day in Guayaquil
Travel in Latin America, each country has its own door, or fly the voice, where your journey – departure for Peru in Lima, Argentina is in Buenos Aires, San Jose Costa Rica, Ecuador You have your choice of Quito or Guayaquil. After choosing between two cities, which usually arrive to solve the problem of reaching the city. Quito, a beautiful city, which is high in the Andes, a UNESCO world heritage, rich culture and history. Quitocobblestone streets of the old city, plazas and surrounding gilded churches make it the best preserved colonial city in Latin America, it’s easy to spend a day or two exploring the old city and getting lost in time. However it is located at an elevation of almost 10,000 feet elevation making it less desirable for older travelers or those who suffer from heart or altitude problems.
Guayaquil by contrast is a bustling, coastal city much of its colonial history has been swept away in the many pirate attacks and fires that make up the cities colorful history. However, in the last decade Guayaquil has undergone a metamorphosis changing it’s overall flavor from a dirty and dangerous port city to a modern city with new hotels, shopping centers, and new airport all waiting to invite foreign tourists and investors. Spending an extra day in Guayaquil, people want to do the “tour of Guayaquil” expecting like many Latin American countries a well defined tour of historic buildings and Churches. However, in Guayaquil, the best trip combines the historic district of Las Peñas, the Malecon 2000 and environment with a cruise on the Guayas.
Built on the hill of Santa Ana Las Peñas is a colonial neighborhood that was built and rebuilt several times. This brightly colored neighborhood was home to many historical figures including the presidents of Ecuador and poets alike. Today, many homes have a number of small restaurants, bars and rebuiltBoutique, each of which can be reached by climbing a series of 444 steps up the slope. At the top of Cerro Fortin can ("Fort of the Hill"), cannon from the fortress were used to protect the city from pirates, or to reach the top of the lighthouse offers a phenomenal 360 degree view of the river and Guayaquil.
Lying at the base of Las Peñas is in sharp contrast with the 2000th A restoration of the pier Malecon Simon Bolivar, the Malecon 2000 is modern in designand a popular destination for locals and international tourists. The 1.5 miles on foot (pedestrians only) along the Guayas River offers a variety of shops and restaurants experience with family activities, including mixed-Friendly remote control boats, playgrounds, exercise areas.
The botanical garden hosts more than 320 plant species from the coast, 70 birds and 60 species of butterflies. Flowering plants with bromeliads make this mixed with a quiet rest. TheMalecon is home to Ecuador’s only IMAX theatre, and a series of Museums, statues and monuments that include the the Moorish Clock Tower, Olmedo monument and the Rotunda depicting the famous meeting between the two great liberators San Martin and Bolivar who met in Guayaquil in 1822 to discuss South America’s freedom from Spain, the Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art, Municipal Museum and Museo Nahim Iscias. The Museo Nahim Iscias houses articles artifacts including gold jewelry, jugs, Ceramics and colonial art from 4200 BC campaign
If you continue to the end of the Malecon 2000, there was the Mercado Sur (the great iron ornate building designed by Gustave Eiffel) to achieve and the craft market with arts and crafts from around the country. Just across the street near the center of the Malecon is locally the magnificent Palacio Municipal gray and slightly above the Parque Bolivar as "Iguana Park" for many green iguanas, which can be seen on trees, on benches, in a notegrass and a bit 'anywhere in the parks. Accompanying Bolivar Park is the restored Cathedral, which is the colonial and ethnic influences of the country reflects.
With all this history and shopping around my favorite activity in Guayaquil Malecon 2000th differs from the name of a character from the past gives way to Guayaquil Captain Morgan's by the middle of the Malecon and takes guests for over an hour by car along the Guayas River into a "pirate ship". The trip offers traditionalSee how people first seen for centuries on the Guayas Guayaquil. The view from the river to the Malecon, Las Peñas and Santa Ana River continues to rock them in long thin vessels during the passage of lettuce heads along the river flow. Cruising past the nearby cities, you can see the life outside the big city. If you plan a trip to 6pm, you can see how the day gives way to night and the lights of the city to reject it. CaptainMorgan plays music on the road and offers drinks and snacks in the late evening in a festive atmosphere changes Moreover Cruise.
Guayaquil is the effort of restoration are impressive and the overall change in the city for the last ten years deserves a beautiful and welcoming city has created an extra day in the mix of tradition and modernity, Guayaquil that give a taste of their own.
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