We were on our way to visit Machalilla National Park to look at wildlife. First we had to step over the carcasses of sharks littering the beach in Puerto Lopez. Ironic, no?
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Our trip to Isla de la Plata, Ecuador, departed from the beach in Puerto Lopez. When we arrived there was a frenzy of activity on the beach as the day’s catch was unloaded from a flotilla of small fishing boats.
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A couple waiting for the bus in Ambato, central Ecuador. Life is harsh in the Andes, they could be in their thirties or in their sixties. I couldn’t even hazard a guess.
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A woman with her hog, contemplating. Just your average, everyday sighting in a mountain village in Ecuador.
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An iguana preening in Bolivar Park, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Simon Bolivar Park is a small, pretty city park in the center of Guayaquil, Ecuador. It is also home to a large colony (possibly extended family?) of iguanas. They scramble around your feet, drape off the trees and, like this one, preen in the sunshine. Enjoy!
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Every family develops it’s own vocabulary, shorthand words or phrases that recall shared memories, nicknames, descriptions and explanations.
If that looks to you like a precarious trail along the top of a ridge, it is. This is the Izhcayluma Hike in Vilcabamba, Ecuador.
We took a side-trip to Hosteria Izhcayluma in Vilcabamba, Ecuador based on the recommendation of a fellow traveler who we met in Montanita.
Cuenca is a pretty, very walkable city. It’s the first place we visited in Ecuador that I could imagine recommending as a family-friendly vacation destination. The city, with it’s many churches and a strong focus on traditional arts and culture is unmistakably Ecuadorean, but it also has a very European feel. It is smaller and cleaner than Quito and a fraction of the size of Guayaquil.
Puerto Lopez is a charming little town in coastal Ecuador. The main industry here is still fishing but tourism, especially to Isla de la Plata in the Machalilla National Park is becoming more important. I’d read about Machalilla, sometimes called “poor man’s Galapagos’, while planning our trip and decided that a visit to this park, where we could experience some of the biodiversity for which the Galapagos is famous but at a lower cost was perfect for us.
