Strolling the 2.5k waterfront area early in the morning...
There were a lot of cool things about the waterfront promenade, but I loved the whole exercise strip! All these stations were set up with instructions!
The promenade leads you to some of the most enchanting gardens I have ever seen!
Some other random shots during my walk through Guayaquil...
After walking the waterfront I went for a stroll through the Las Peñas and Cero Santa Ana neighborhoods. They look like something straight out of a historic Spanish hillside village, complete with a quaint staircase that leads you to an old fort at the top where you can see all of Guayaquil. I took a zillion pictures because they were just too cute!
I swear, there were times when I felt like I was walking through a movie set.
Fortin Del Cerro (the fort high above Guayaquil).
See what I mean about the Pirates of the Caribbean?
"...the Pirate´s Life for me."
View of Guayaquil from the lighthouse at the Fort.
And now time for another installment of...
I swear, there were times when I felt like I was walking through a movie set.Fortin Del Cerro (the fort high above Guayaquil).
See what I mean about the Pirates of the Caribbean?
"...the Pirate´s Life for me."View of Guayaquil from the lighthouse at the Fort.
And now time for another installment of...
English 101
(...and this is at a National Fort. Really? There´s not one person that works for the city that can get a proper translation figured out? Anyone in the government? Anyone that can make one phone call to a translation service? http://www.freetranslation.com/? I use it all the time!)
OK. Now onto the coolest part of Guayaquil: Parque Bolivar, the iguana park. Just a normal park in the middle of the city that happens to have Godzilla-sized iguanas roaming around free. I´m not sure how they don´t wander outside of the park into the streets, but they don´t!
On a side note: I had developed a little aversion to iguanas ever since Michelle and Mike used to have two of them and every time I tried to put my hand in the tank they attacked like they wanted to eat my fingers off. But these Iguanas were so chill! You could feed them, touch them, whatever! I think I am officially OK with Iguanas again.
So Saturday afternoon, the day before the big Voting day, I was trying to get a bus to Cuenca. I snapped this picture so you could see the craziness at the bus terminal and it doesn´t even do it justice. Have I talked about the Votaccion before? Can´t remember...anyway here´s the rundown:
On a side note: I had developed a little aversion to iguanas ever since Michelle and Mike used to have two of them and every time I tried to put my hand in the tank they attacked like they wanted to eat my fingers off. But these Iguanas were so chill! You could feed them, touch them, whatever! I think I am officially OK with Iguanas again.
So Saturday afternoon, the day before the big Voting day, I was trying to get a bus to Cuenca. I snapped this picture so you could see the craziness at the bus terminal and it doesn´t even do it justice. Have I talked about the Votaccion before? Can´t remember...anyway here´s the rundown:Everyone in Ecuador is REQUIRED to vote. If you don´t vote, you are fined.
Not only are they required to vote, they are required to do so in the town in which they were born, not necessarily where they are currently residents. It´s crazy!! So, all of Ecuador is travelling the weekend of the big votaccion! Whole families! I won´t put too much of my own editorial on this, except that this seems like a terrible system for a country that has so much poverty. Can the poorer families really afford to transport their entire family across the country just to vote?
Plus, the transportation system is just bursting at the seams with all these people travelling. My bus was 2 hours late!!!
