Background/Historical Info:
Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River which we had to sail up some 40 miles to arrive at our pier to dock this morning at 9:00 am. It is the largest and most populous city in Ecuador with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area. Ecuador’s main port is here.
Guayaquil was founded in 1538, again, by a Spanish conquistador. Today its economy consists of small and medium businesses. Agriculture is also important as well as the commercial port here. The climate between Jan and Apr is hot and humid with heavy rainfalls. Lucky us! Rest of the year the rainfall is minimal. Guayaquil is the gateway for excursions out to the Galapagos Islands, 725 mile west of here in the Pacific.
Sailing up the Guayas River
Mangrove trees in water along the river.
Not sure what they were doing. Did not appear to be fishing.
Container ship being loaded
This is used to load and unload containers.
Pier where we docked today.
View right out our balcony is front gate to port and road leading downtown.
What We Did Last Night:
Sunset
My double order of miso-glazed sea bass. Sorry, I had a bite before taking this photo. The sea bass is marinated for 48 hours prior to cooking. Our favorite entree on Regent ships.
Did not get photo at Captain's table but these are others at it with us. There were 9 including Captain at the table which was too many as could not hear each other very well.
All were at table plus one other couple that we knew from several other cruises. Couple in back was new to Regent and from the UK.
Ice carving in theater for live broadcast of Academy Awards which we did not watch.
What We Did Today:
This is our 3rd time to visit this port. Because it is so hot and very humid out today with thunderstorms forecast for afternoon, we decided to not tour today. I shall put link to photos taken here in 2016. You will enjoy seeing the iguanas and their story.
Tours got off ship a little late due to port authorities being a "PIA" (pain in the ass). We headed up to the gym after tours left so gym was very quiet.
Today in La Veranda at lunch they had this salmon in puff pastry. Was one of our favorites but now MY salmon in puff pastry is much better.
As the tour buses arrive back at pier, here is a short video of band and young dancers greeting passengers. Taken from our balcony.
This afternoon I lasted maybe 5 minutes on pier shopping. Nothing here I had to have.
Old Marco Polo cruise ship in front of us. This line has terrible reviews.
Ok, here is the link to photos of my tour taken back in 2016. Remember you will have to cut and paste it on "new tab" of browser. Then click on first photo to enlarge it and be able to read my captions in upper right corner. Arrow thru rest midway down side of photo.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/S7LGxDhUSQGNQtBB8
Guayaquil is located on the western bank of the Guayas River which we had to sail up some 40 miles to arrive at our pier to dock this morning at 9:00 am. It is the largest and most populous city in Ecuador with around 2 million people in the metropolitan area. Ecuador’s main port is here.
Guayaquil was founded in 1538, again, by a Spanish conquistador. Today its economy consists of small and medium businesses. Agriculture is also important as well as the commercial port here. The climate between Jan and Apr is hot and humid with heavy rainfalls. Lucky us! Rest of the year the rainfall is minimal. Guayaquil is the gateway for excursions out to the Galapagos Islands, 725 mile west of here in the Pacific.
What We Did Last Night:
What We Did Today:
This is our 3rd time to visit this port. Because it is so hot and very humid out today with thunderstorms forecast for afternoon, we decided to not tour today. I shall put link to photos taken here in 2016. You will enjoy seeing the iguanas and their story.
Tours got off ship a little late due to port authorities being a "PIA" (pain in the ass). We headed up to the gym after tours left so gym was very quiet.
Ok, here is the link to photos of my tour taken back in 2016. Remember you will have to cut and paste it on "new tab" of browser. Then click on first photo to enlarge it and be able to read my captions in upper right corner. Arrow thru rest midway down side of photo.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/S7LGxDhUSQGNQtBB8
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