one night in Guayaquil

We have now left Playas and are back in Guayaquil. After our 3 hour bus ride back to the city we were met at the bus terminal by Carmen’s friend. This is weird but at this point we still don’t know her name.


She drove us from the terminal back to her house which is located directly on the hill near the malacon 2000. this is a long board walk type structure that runs along the Rio Gguayas. It turns out that we are right down the street from the hostle i stayed at when i fist arrived here.

Abbi and i were quite shocked when we entered her house and saw all her paintings. Mostly they are all nude women. Breasts are everywhere! Beside the nudity theme, her house also follow a nautical theme. We noticed on the the wall that her now deceased husband was the commodore of the Guayaquil yacht club. What are the chances of ending up in a sailor house here in Guayaquil??? i guess they call it fate!

After abbi and i got a tour of the house, we pieced together in broken Spanish, English and french (franglish!) that the home owner is a massage therapist, a pizza delivery driver, a painter, sailor and and guest home host, taxi driver and lesbian! What a combo.

Anyways, she gave us the keys to the house and showed us on the street which way was safe for a walk and where we may find a place for dinner.

We headed towards the river, found the 151 steps and climbed to the top. We stopped for a drink and took some picture at the top before we headed back down to the malacon. We were absolutely starved by the time we found a place to eat at. It was happy hour and the university soccer teams were playing on the TV. It seems the whole place was there to see the game. Every time their favourite team scored, GOOOOOOAAAAAAAL! The whole place lit up with excitement.

I tried some of the local food, arroz et cameron (rice and shrimp) abbi had mac and cheese. Once we had the food in our bellies we were ready for bed and started the walk back to our guest house.

We are now back in our room with 2 single beds, an air conditioner humming and a TV with some Spanish dvds. I think we'll try and watch one anyways as we haven’t seen a TV for a while.

Tomorrow our flight leaves the airport at 1030am for the Galapagos! So excited. We also just read that the water is gonna be freezing when we arrive there. I hope the guide book is wrong.