In the boarder of Ecuador we had another adventure: Paulo couldn´t get in the country because he didn´t have his yellow fever´s certification (Márcia, your brother was counting so much on you that he got used to have a “mother” who would take care of everything for him). He tried all the possible arguments and also a bribe of 5 USD but the agent from customs didn´t accept it (Murta couldn't believe how bad Paulo was trying to enter in a corruption scheme). That´s when his father Francisco had the great idea of saying that Paulo had been in South Africa where the yellow fever is obligatory to get in there. It worked well and after almost one hour of argue we finally passed the border.
We arrived in Guayaquil around 8 am and had breakfast in a Chilean restaurant where we got to know the owner, an older Chilean sir very cool and with whom we had a pleasure conversation before calling to our contact from Couchsurfing, Patricia. She took us in the Malecon and we went to her place. We spent 3 nights in Guayaquil, the biggest city in Ecuador, with 3 million people, and considered the financial capital of the country. The main touristic places are the renewed and beautiful Malecon, along the river Guaya; the historical and colorful Cerro Santa Ana, from where the city was built, once it was a forth of protection against the Deustch invaders in the XVII century. Don’t miss the lighthouse at the top of the cerro with an overview from the entire city. There’s another Malecon on the other side of the town and a few museums with historical information that are also worth of a visit. Our host Patricia was amazing. Very friendly, she took us to all these touristic places and gave us lots of information about the country. It couldn´t be better. Murta had a special relationship with her cats, she had 8 cats. During the night they used to scrool to murta´s bed and he often got scared and badly could sleep ahahah In Guayaquil the temperatures are very different from Peru, it is very humid and at 9 pm it was 30º degrees.
The country is slightly more expensive then Peru (except the transportation which is basically 1 dollar for 1 hour driving). The food is good but not as good as the Peruvian and we got really happy to have beans on our plates again (here called Menestras). Here we replaced the famous Sublime (from Peru) to a Granizado de Yogurt, which makes our afternoons a big pleasure in this country.
Since 2000 the economy runs in dollars which makes our calculations easier since we don’t have to convert the currency. We were also amazed by the good quality of the roads in the country.
From Guayaquil we took a bus to the probably most famous tourist destination of the country: Montañita, where we spent 4 nights. In the bus station we got to know 10 Argentinian girls, also called our hermanitas (young sisters) that would spend days and nights with us. We spent the days on the beach (the atmoshphere is very similar to Reñaca beach in Chile), enjoying the beach and surfing, or doing day trips to the nearby beautiful beaches.
chi chi chi, our breakfast is ready!
Los Frailes is 1h from Montñita and is a natural reserve
Olón, next to Montañita offers a delicious fish
On the second day we went to Puerto Lopez to do snorkling
At night we went partying on the streets full of Kioskos (turning up the music and selling the drinks). Montañita is full of life, street arts (handicrafts, live music with drummers, tango dance, etc) and friendly people. Surprisingly, Montañita is a big resort for Argentineans and Colombians, but unforntunatly we had no contact with Ecuadorians for the whole time we were there
(*) most popular music during these days
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