Las Peñas, Guayaquil´s charming colonial core

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When it comes to Ecuador travel, most of the attention goes to the Galápagos and Quito - maybe with some to spare for quaint Cuenca up in the Andes. But the country’s largest city and business capital, Guayaquil down on the Pacific coast, is despite its big-city amenities still seen as rather grey and uninteresting to visitors - mostly a destination for business travellers.

Even so, there’s one historic neighbourhood, tucked away at the end of Guayaquil’s reconstructed malecón (and these days known as the Malecón 2000) which is more than worth an afternoon and/or evening of your day.

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