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ular pizza and Italian food place.
El Ejecutivo
, Av. 2 and Calle 12,
top floor, is probably the best restaurant in town. Excellent interna-
tional dishes - including non-seafood choices - as well as a great view
and reasonable prices make this a top choice.
Puerto López
There are a couple of obvious beachfront options for snacking and full
meals throughout the day.
Salinas
Salinas also has easy-to-find seaside eateries, with the nicer restau-
rants being in the higher-end hotels. On the waterfront, try
Mar y
Tierra
for some of the best seafood around. Cheaper and just about
as good is
Flipper
, a couple of blocks away. The local market will also
have good, fresh and cheap seafood options.
Guayaquil & Vicinity
G
uayaquil is a fun-loving, money-making land of coastal planta-
tions and international trade. The climate here is hot and humid,
almost unbearably so at times of the year, whichwould lead you to be-
lieve that everyone moves at a slower pace. On the contrary, this is
the business capital of the country and home to nearly 3½million citi-
zens. The people are great, but they are either incredibly rich or ex-
tremely poor, and the latter group is growing rapidly. Spend a day or
two here, check out the sites, and chat with the locals. It's worth the
effort.
The city of Guayaquil does not make my top-10 list of best places to
visit in Ecuador (or top 50 for that matter), but I'm not a fan of large
urban areas. And proponents of this coastal capital swear by the
friendliness of its inhabitants. The city serves as a major interna-
tional gateway into the country and to the region's natural attrac-
tions. Guayaquil is the living force behind half of Ecuador. Located at
the convergence of the Ríos Daule and Babahoyo, just 41 miles from
the Pacific Ocean, it is so different from Quito and the Sierras as to
seem part of an entirely different country.
The surrounding region offers plenty of underrated natural destina-
tions and adventures for the avid travelers, epecially along the coast
and into the western slopes.
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