GENERAL VILLAMIL (Playas)
Full Day Beaches

The nearest resort to Guayaquil is 96 km away. If you continue the same way you can visit Data and Posorja. A great place, its wonderful beaches give us a warm space to spend as a family.

Puerto El Morro, with its extensive estuary, can be visited to appreciate the crabs, variety of birds and bottlenose dolphins.

SALINAS – PROVINCE OF SANTA ELENA
Pacific Coast

Early departure from the city of Guayaquil to the Santa Elena Peninsula. Approximately one hour and a half along the Pacific Highway, admiring an incomparable agricultural landscape, we will reach the town of Atahualpa, home of small artisans and woodworkers who work the wood as a family tradition for more than 100 years. We continue our tour through the old gas and oil camp built by Anglo OilFields in the 1950s. We will arrive to Ancon, site of the English camp with a spectacular view of the coastal profile of this area. We continue towards the fishing commune of Anconcito, traditionally known for its intense fishing activity.

Then we take the “Mar Bravo” road to Salinas for a panoramic view and then the town of La Libertad to visit a workshop of spondylus jewelery artisans, a precious shell that was used by our ancestors as a way of commercial exchange of cultures Pre-Hispanic cultures of America.

We take road north going through the typical fishing villages of the coast as are San Pablo, San Pedro, Libertador and Valdivia until arriving at the commune of Barcelona. This small place inhabited mainly by elderly people who dedicate their life to the work of the harvest and prepared of the toquilla straw, main material for the making of the famous straw hats. From here a detour will take us to a new place, where the workshop of the tagua seed work true works of art of pure creation.

We continue to the resort of Montañita, where we will have a rich lunch and a short break to start our return to the city of Guayaquil.

Duration: 8 hours approximately.

Meals included: – / L / –

NOTES:

In this zone of the coast many social and community programs are developed, having managed to insert the inhabitants in the socio tourism development of the zone ..

You can replace any of the visits mentioned by one to the Valdivia Aquarium.

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE FOR OPERATIONAL REASONS, HOLIDAYS OR DEPENDING OF THE DAY.

IT INCLUDES:

• Private bilingual guide (Spanish – English)
• Private land transport
• Meals specified in the program based on menu / vegetarian menu should be requested in advance
• Entry
• Soft drinks and snacks for the road.

NOT INCLUDED:

• No food not specified in the program
• Tips
• No service not specified in the program

Salinas Full Day – 8 Hours – Daily Tour

Located at the end of the peninsula of Santa Elena, with numerous condominiums, ideal place for practicing nautical sports, diving, surfing, deep-sea fishing. Nearby you can know: Punta Carnero, Ancón, La Libertad, Santa Elena. Scheduled visits to La Chocolatera, Artisans of the Peninsula, Museum of Sumpa.

Early departure from the city of Guayaquil to the Santa Elena Peninsula. In a journey of approximately one and a half hours along the Pacific Highway, admiring an incomparable agricultural landscape, we will reach Canton Salinas, the most popular of Ecuadorian seaside resorts, with a bay of calm waters, from where we can see the most salient point of the Pacific Ocean.

On this beach you can enjoy a relaxing sea bath, and as an optional activity, in the month of June you can take the observation tour of humpback whales, an important attraction of this season where these cetaceans seek the coasts of Ecuador to Mate and have their young.

Typical beach lunch at a local in the area.

Then we took the “Mar Bravo” road to the town of La Libertad to visit a workshop of spondylus jewelery artisans, a precious shell that was used by our ancestors as a form of commercial exchange of the pre-Hispanic cultures of America.

We continue until the Punta Carnero spa, where to start our return to the city of Guayaquil.

Meals included: – Lunch

NOTES:

Optional: whale watching

IT INCLUDES:

• Private bilingual guide (Spanish – English)
• Private land transport
• Meals specified in the program based on menu / vegetarian menu should be requested

NOT INCLUDED:

• No food not specified in the program
• Tips
• No service not specified in the program
• Whale tour with box lunch (approx. 1 hour) $ 30

Salinas Bird Watching

 

Departure from the hotel 8 a.m. to Salinas, welcome drinks, excursion to Pools of Salt for bird watching.

This is a special ecosystem where there are coexisting migratory and aquatic birds, such as the Black-necked Stork, the Low Tern, and the pink pearl of the area, the Chilean Flamingo. These are only three of the thousands of species of birds that live permanently or temporarily in the Salt Pools.

2 p.m. Visit to La Chocolatera, reserve and museum of sea lions and whales.

Visit to the beach.

5 pm. Return to Guayaquil,

Arrival at approximately 7 pm.

Optional: you can choose between birding or visiting the Archaeological Museum of Sumpa and Nautical Museum in Farrallon Dillon.

Ruta Del Sol

Machalilla National Park

White Water Museum

In the heart of the National Park Machalilla is an archaeological site of Agua Blanca, with vestiges of a city of Manteño period that was home to around 5,000 people. The most important material elements that are exhibited in the Museum of White Water are: stone chairs, funeral homes, ritual ceramics, idealized representations of nature, lithic artifacts, etc.

With the help of a guide you can visit the urban vestiges of the citadel of Agua Blanca.

Salango and The Museum to the rafters of the South Sea

 

Located in the port of Salando is the Museum dedicated to the Balseros of La Mar del Sur, as a tribute to the intrepid sailors and merchants of pre-Hispanic Ecuador.

Valdivia, Chorrera-Engoroy, Machalilla, Guangala, Bahía and Manteño, recovered in the stratigraphic sections of Salango, Isla de la Plata and Puerto López can be observed in correct classification.

The Island of La Plata and boating

An important part of the attractions of the Machalilla National Park is La Isla de la Plata, located 30km from the coast, where species of birds and marine mammals live. Between the months of June to September, in the surroundings, whales coming from the Antarctic realize their mating rites.

The Island of La Plata, since ancient times, has been a magnet for many people, archaeological research. They point to the human presence from the Valdivia phase.

 PUERTO LOPEZ

• 3 days program at Mantaraya Lodge

Day 1

This adventure begins with a trip of almost 3 hours from Guayaquil to Puerto López. Traveling along the route of the sun from Santa Elena to Manabí, passing by and visiting more than 10 fishing and craft villages in the area.

Upon arrival at Mantaraya Lodge an exquisite lunch will be waiting for you and in the afternoon, after a well-deserved rest we will have the opportunity to visit the small fishing community of Salango. This small town is to the south of Puerto Lopez and has an interesting museum with pieces collected from different places, inside and outside the national park.

In addition, the museum shows in chronological order vestiges and archaeological ceramics of cultures that lived in this area more than 5000 years ago. After dinner, we will have an explanatory talk that will introduce us to the species of birds that we will find in Machalilla National Park and plan the activities of the next day’s tour.

Day 2

This day we can change the activities of the continent to explore the wonders of the cliffs of the Island of the Silver. The Isla de la Plata is a magnificent wildlife sanctuary, especially coastal and pelagic birds.

Our marine adventure begins in the tranquil bay of Puerto Lopez, which is appropriate to make the embarkation to the boat Mantaraya. Sailing lasts about an hour to an hour and a half. There are 3 main activities to do on this full day tour.

The first is a hike along a predetermined trail on the island with one of our naturalist guides to observe species such as blue-footed boobies, masked boobies or nazca, magnificent frigates and perhaps albatrosses. You can choose between the long or short path and after the trek we can start with the second activity, surface diving. We will have enough time to enjoy this activity and on the shores of the island there is an immense variety of marine flora and fauna.

The ideal place for this activity is in Drake Bay. If you prefer to just swim or relax on the beach you can do this during this time. The lunch offered during this tour is box lunch and in the afternoon we will sail back to Puerto López where a bus will take us back to the hotel. In the evening we will have dinner and then, we will have a talk to know the activities of the following day and more information about the area.

* If your hobby is deep diving, do not hesitate to contact your travel agent to make the proper preparations for us before your trip. You will need to demonstrate your diving experience for which you will need to present your PADI license.

Day 3

This last day offers you the opportunity to visit the strange tropical moist forest, also known as the Chongon-Colonche mountain range. In this trip along with our naturalist guide you can observe more than 20 species of birds, learn more about the flora and fauna of the area and understand why this ecosystem is different from others that were visited in previous days. For a couple of hours or more get in touch with this wonderful paradise and feel that it is to be in a real jungle.

An early lunch will be waiting for you at the hotel. In the afternoon we will have time to pack and leave.