we made it to guayaquil
hi i'm eric and i'm sarah and we are the bombs away we made it to guayaquil
so a lot of people don't spend a lot of time in guayaquil usually it's kind of uh just an
in-between stop either you're waiting to go on a flight somewhere else maybe to the galapagos
or people just kind of are passing through getting to the coast or getting back to the andes so
we haven't heard a lot of recommendations about guayaquil because a lot of people don't spend
a lot of time here as tourists that's right and actually we're not really
spending a lot of time here either we're only staying here for two nights
so we kind of wanted to show you what is there to do in a day here in guayaquil and actually we
are getting first-hand knowledge from a local so we're here with majo we met her through an
online academy called lost creator academy and we're so happy to be meeting up and hanging out
and yeah maybe if you want to just introduce yourself a little bit well like welcome to my
city excellent so we're so excited to spend the day with majo and get to know guayaquil just from
a first-hand local experience yeah very excited so our first stop is parque seminario which is
just in front of the cathedral at the cathedral here in guayaquil it's like the most famous
church here in guayaquil apparently yeah so this park is special because it is full of iguanas
so
oh get him on your lap eric i want this guy on my
lap you're gonna scratch the crap out of me i still want it
why does he want me this guy looks so old yeah coming
that is happening
gotta get him climb your chest ah they just keep following me go to
eric oh he's coming he's going to get me
i don't know what your angle is perfect
thanks friend okay that park was insane i could not get over how many aquatics
there were in there i was freaking out at the beginning that was way too fun
we're here at cerro del carmen which is basically just a big hill
with the Jesus actually the statue at the top but in order to get to it in the nice view of the city
we need to climb all of these stairs and it's very hot today so wish us luck why is it always stairs
so one thing you'll notice as we're walking up these stairs
is that there's all these different kind of sculptures
that are basically depicting the journey of Christ to the cross it's very interesting i haven't
really seen something like that at most like Jesus statues that we've been to we've only been to a
few but it's uh yeah it's very interesting to say the least to just kind of go along that journey
164 steps later and we made it to the Jesus
although the view is probably better from las penas if you only had time
for one stop in guayaquil this is a great place to see a view while you're walking
up and doing this activity it's beautiful you can see 360 views of the city and yeah
it's a great place to go if you only have time for one stop
so although we've gone quite lucky that majo has a car and is willing to drive us around
to all these places today it is very easy to get around if you want to just do it on
your own they have uber here they have cabify or just regular taxis majo does not recommend
taking the bus she said it's not super safe for tourists um but yeah if you want to pack all
these things in one day it's definitely doable just using public transportation in that way
we made it to our next stop guayarte so this is basically another little malecon that goes over
just a branch of the river and on either side of the malecon there is there's some
restaurants that you can go and eat and that's actually where we're gonna go
the now malecon is actually super nice it's really relaxing just to walk across
this bridge and just kind of peaceful over the water there's a lot of people that are
also rowing their boats here which is super cool i never realized that
that was such an activity to do here in guayaquil so that's pretty cool
i'm not sure if this is typical ecuadorian but not about it
so we're at this restaurant that's kind of typical to guayaquil for ecuadorian
like fancy recording food it's called and right now we got a patacones pizza some yummy sangria
and yeah i'm just very excited to try it's gonna be delicious
and so good it's amazing
so now we're about to get on to the aerovia which is basically the gondola that goes over the city
from guayaquil to duran over the over the river this is what i was most excited about
when we were coming to guayaquil because it just looks so fun everyone here actually
uses that public transportation it was built just a year ago actually
but i'm just excited to use it as a tourist just go across the river so let's check it out
so the cards cost two dollars to buy we just bought them off of some other gringos for one
dollar and then it costs a dollar for you to go across the river and back so 70 cents each way
i love gondolas way too much gondolas are awesome i would love to commute to work like this this
would be so nice in the morning you just hop on with your coffee and you just go across the
river and it's like a nice view then you go to work do it all again on the way
back i feel like eventually the novelty would wear off but no never i would love it forever
oh this is so beautiful i can't believe this is like public transit yeah that's mild so now that
they built the gondola for public transportation people don't need to drive all the way across this
bridge to this town all the way across this bridge all the way through town to get to work they can
just go across the gondola which goes right over there so what you see behind us is las penas and
there's another hill there as well so this is actually like the oldest part of the city that
you can see behind us which is just amazing we're going to go up there later don't worry
so we're in aerovia and there is duran is another city from the coast on earth so this is the guayas
river rio guayas is the most like largest uh river from ecuador and guayaquil is like the port
city of the country we have like an economical capital here so this river is very important
for us for the economy and this is like a nice view from the river so you are going to see now
coming down from the aerovia you have right at the bottom is the malecon that
goes along the river about 2.5 kilometers so you can see the aerovia in the background and
you can also go on this big ferris wheel up here we're not doing that today
but it's definitely one of the things you can do while you're on the malecon or in this area
so the last thing we're going to do today is the steps of santa ana up to las penas
and if we thought the 164 steps of the other plays are bad this is over 400 and it's our last stop so
we're a little tired what are you doing down there
so short compared to me
so the 400 steps of santa ana are
generally quite safe we're going out for sunset and it got a little bit cloudy hello
it got a little bit cloudy so it's getting a little bit dark and i actually asked majo
if this is a safe area and generally yes it is very safe
if you wanted to come up here for your own sunset if you catch a sunset unlike us
you could walk down when it's kind of getting darker and you'd be okay
400 and there's more
wow she lied to us it's 432 stairs not 400 and there's another one right here 433
i don't know i'm really starting to question your methods here you can't be trusted
there's so brutal
444 steps okay so we were wrong it's 100 it's 444 steps to the top
we hope this video gave you some great ideas of things you can do in guayaquil
even if you only have a day or two to explore around the city we honestly loved our time in
guayaquil even though we only had one day you could definitely stay here longer it's not just
a pass-through city you could actually stay here and have a great time in guayaquil absolutely
so if you liked our video make sure to comment like it subscribe to our channel and yeah then
you can see more videos of where we're exploring in ecuador we'll see you in the next one