Ecuador — Guayaquil: The official tour backtrack

Plaza de la Administración

As you can probably tell by now, once we joined up with our tour group Ursula and I wound up backtracking much of what we saw the day before. But there were things we had missed that first time around, so we weren’t disappointed. For instance, next to the City Hall is Independence Square:

Guayaquil Independence Square

Guayaquil Independence Square

Guayaquil Independence Square

Plaza de la Administración

And next to City Hall is something we had missed completely, the Governor’s Palace:

Palace of the Governor of Guayas

Crossing the street we once again found ourselves in the Malecón Simón Bolívar:

Malecón Simón Bolívar

Malecón Simón Bolívar

Malecón Simón Bolívar

The Malecón lies along the bank of the Rio Guayas, which on this day was cluttered with flotsam washed downstream by heavy rains a few days before to the north:

Rio Guayas

On the Malecón we passed again by the Hemiciclo de la Rotonda Malecón 2000 with its statues of Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín:

Hemiciclo de la Rotonda Malecón 2000

Hemiciclo de la Rotonda Malecón 2000

Continuing north, Ursula and I ventured finally into unexplored territory when we arrived at the Jardines del Malecón Simón Bolívar (Gardens of the Malecón Simón Bolívar):

Jardines del Malecón Simón Bolívar

Jardines del Malecón Simón Bolívar

Jardines del Malecón Simón Bolívar