Peru Bound

Today was another early start as we headed to the airport to begin our journey to Peru.    From Baltra airport we headed to Guayaquil, where we were met by a local guide for the day who gave us a tour of his city during our 6 hour lay over.  

We left the airport and headed to downtown where we had a huge lunch and then headed to Parque Simon or more commonly known as Iguana Park because of all the land iguanas that have taken up residence there.  This park was built around a statue of Simon Bolivar representing his defeat of the Spanish freeing 5 South American countries, Columbia, Ecuador, Venazuela, Boliva, and Peru.  

From there we continued on to the riverfront where we saw several statues of the Presidents of Ecuador and a rotunda representing the countries of South American.  We also walked around old Colonial Guayaquil, which is now like an artist district, very quaint.  

Then it was time to head back to the airport to check in for our flight to Lima and for our Peruvian adventure to begin.