CITY TOUR AND HISTORICAL PARK

The city tour in Guayaquil consists in various panoramic visits and walks through the city. A first stop will be done at the Administration Plaza, around which you will observe the City Hall, the Monument Sucre and finally the Seminario Park, also known as the Iguana Park. Later on, the bus will take us to the Southern Malecon 2000 where you will appreciate the Integration Plaza with its famous Southern Marketplace or Cristal Palace and then connect to the Olmedo Plaza very important for its monument to Jose Joaquin Olmedo, recognized poet of Guayaquil and ex president of the Republic.
Our third stop (the largest one) will allow us to see different important monument of the history of the city from the Morisca Tower. Among them, the monument of the 4 elements of the Planet. Then we will walk toward the Rotonda Monument with the statues of Simon Bolivar and San Martin. We will then proceed, in a panoramic way, the visit of the rest of the Malecon 2000, with its restaurants and recreation places for children. Optionally you can visit the garden area of the Malecon.

After the visit of the Malecon, the bus will take to the neighborhood of the Peñas, oldest part of the city in which you will have the opportunity to climb the numerous steps until the Cerro Santa Ana and watch Guayaquil and the river Guayas like from nowhere else. Finally we will end our tour at the Flower Marketplace with its colorful different kind of flowers.
After the City tour, you will enjoy a visit to the Historical Park, in which you will live an experience from the Antic Guayaquil with its characters, traditions and architecture. Located only at 30 minutes from Guayaquil, the Historical park is divided in 3 parts on 8 hectares of field:
The wild life zone:
Mixed of Fauna and Flora proper to the local ecosystem and re introduced extinguished species of animals. This area of the park intents to recreate the natural environment of this species that we can hardly see in liberty those days.
The traditional zone :
Sample of the rural architecture, homemade tools and others objects from the traditional rural way of life. In that zone you will also find a typical Hacienda and its mini-plantations with the many plants that was exported back then and contributed to the wealth of the Country and past centuries (Coffee, cacao, Banana, Cotton.)
The urban zone:
Showing the way of life in Guayaquil during the 1900, with all the architectural elements and constructions of the Public Plaza and Malecon as it was back at the time.

CERRO BLANCO

Administered by “Fundación Pro-Bosque” (Pro-Forest Foundation), Cerro Blanco protects a section of dry forest that pertains to the Tropical Andes Biodiversity Hotspot identified by Conservation International as the number one area on the planet in terms of overall number of plant and animal species. In addition to the more than 500 vascular plant species, one of the highlights is seeing the ceibo or kapok trees up-close. Their green, human-like trunks seem to be right out of a Dr. Seuss book.
Despite being bordered by Guayaquil’s almost three million inhabitants, the protected forest harbors populations of jaguar, ocelot, agouti, peccary, and other mammal species. Birders will be excited by the opportunity to see more than 200 species of which over twenty are endemic. With almost 10 globally threatened bird species including the guayaquilensis subspecies of the great green macaw listed as critically endangered.

We arrive back to Guayaquil in the late afternoon.