Guayaquil City Tour

Today you are going on a Guayaquil city tour, starting with a visit to “Seminario Park” or “Parque de las Iguanas”, a very popular meeting point for young Ecuadorian lovers. Furthermore, this little park is well-known for its land iguanas which laze about in the trees while they catch the sun, we invite you to take some time for your best photo shooting with these dinosaur descendants. We will do a few steps from the park to visit the city Cathedral, built-in classical gothic style, and then we’ll move on to Guayaquil’s famous wide, tree-lined waterfront, “El Malecon”, that runs alongside the Guayas River.

The next stop for the Guayaquil city tour will be the historic local government buildings, the “Palacio Municipal” and then the “Palacio de Gobernación” (the Government Palace). Right in front of this palace is the Moorish clock tower “La Torre Morisca”, which was built in 1843, and with a little effort climbing its steep stairs, we can enjoy the views across the city and the Guayas River. La Rotonda, another historic monument, is a statue that marks the meeting between Simon Bolivar and Jose San Martín in 1822.

The old district of Las Peñas, a vestige of old Guayaquil at the Malecon´s north end. It is a picturesque neighborhood built on the Cerro Santa Ana hill at the river edge. We will end the Guayaquil city tour by climbing the stairway amid the brightly painted wooden houses, where you can find some bars and local stores; after four hundred forty-four stairs you will reach the lighthouse monument from where you will gain a different perspective of Ecuador’s largest city.

You will have the afternoon at leisure. You could take another stroll along the Malecon; have some shopping time visiting one of the modern city malls, or just have some relaxing time drinking a cold beer in one of the several restaurants, that offer very delicious gastronomy.