Enjoy an extraordinary Guayaquil tour with a friendly personal guide from ToursByLocals. Your private guide is a local who knows this Ecuadorian city as only locals do, and is proud to host you on a private tour that reflects your travel interests.

Stroll along the lovely Malecón as the Guayacos do and enjoy this beautiful stretch of riverfront promenade, dotted with cultural centers, restaurants and shopping. Climb the 444 steps past colourful art galleries, cafes and houses to the Las Penas neighbourhood on top of historic Santa Ana hill, where you will be afforded spectacular views of the city and River Guayas below. See live iguanas in the heart of the city at Parque Bolivar, then spend a leisurely evening sharing an Ecuadorian meal of Arroz con Menestra y Carne at one of Guayaquil's charming restaurants.

Choose any one of our Guayaquil tours, but feel free to suggest alternative sights and activities. Your local guide wants you to have an unforgettable time in his hometown.

Guayaquil

I am an experienced naturalist guide, join me and visit "Gateway to the Galapagos Islands".

Our tour will be focused in Guayaquil of course, but there will be a particular emphasis in the very close relationship between our city and the famous islands.

What relationship? This tropical city is located along the Guayas River: the main source of the abundance and bio-diversity in the Galapagos islands of the city is what I am talking about.
Besides, Guayaquil is the financial and commercial center of the country.

Perfect for first-time visitors, this tour provides a comprehensive visit of the main highlights of the city, including the "Old town" Guayaquil neighborhood, Santa Ana Hill and the Malecon.

Why do I love my town? It is full of nice surprises all the time. The sunsets are gorgeous, the weather's warm and yet breezy in the afternoon. So, it is quite comfortable to walk around in light clothes.

The monument to the donors' of the Riverfront Park

Guayaquil at night a city teeming with life

At the SEMINARIO PARK better known as The IGUANAS PARK you'll learn why

Walking around and having fun at the Riverfront Park

The City Hall of Guayaquil, a magestic building

Guayaquil, Is in Ecuador the city with more wildlife right WITHIN the metropilitan area. A paradise for birdwatchers

The abundance of wildlife in Guayaquil is really remarkable

At the top of the Santa Ana Hill, yeah... 444 steps. And then an amazing view of the city

Sunsets in Guayaquil? no words can explain the beauty

Magnificent monuments, a city full of history. AND HISTORICAL ICONS.

You'll never get tired of bringing memories home, nor we of stopping on your behalf

The most unvelieable sunset skies... Guayaquil

Always fun, always something else to see. Guayaquil

Photograhic adventures? come to Guayaquil

Every corner in Guayaquil, there is a story to tell

The gorgeous neo-gothic Cathedral of Guayaquil

As we come from oe of our excursion in the countryside near Guayaquil, THIS is the welcome that we got

Gorgeous riverside parks... (s?) yes, more than one

We're happy climbing up the Santa Ana hill steps

Parque Seminario, a.k.a. The Iguanas Park

I know it's hard to tell who's who. So, hint: I am the one that is wearing a hat. ;)

Gorgeous parks even prettier with the sunset lights

The most amazing wildlife on every step we take around Guayaquil

Even during rainy days... Visiting Guayaquil is lots of fun

Discover Gateway to the Galapagos Islands

Guayaquil City Half Day Tour

Guayaquil Highlights by Land and Air - Shore Excursion

Did you know that Guayaquil is Ecuador's largest city with approximately 3 million inhabitants? It is the most important port of Ecuador when we consider that 70% of import and export comes from this port.

It's a privileged location that allows us to go on excursions within the city as well as in its surrounding areas. I will take you to one of the most impressive Waterfront in South America that is in downtown Guayaquil and is the frame of the Eastern Guayas River, considered the largest river of the South Pacific Coast.

Guayaquil is without doubt a place where everyone can enjoy the warm weather which also includes its wonderful people that will make one feel happy in visiting the commercial and financial Capital of Ecuador!

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View of the Santa Ana Hill and Puerto Santa Ana.

Discover the Pearl of the Pacific in a half-day tour

In this tour you get to know the best of Guayaquil. We go to the "Historical Park" to learn about some history and culture of the City. After that we go the the "Iguana Park" which is a small park very famous because of the number of iguanas it has. Then we go for lunch. After that we go for a walking to "Malecon 2000" that is the most important tourist point in Guayaquil. We finish this tour in "Santa Ana hill" also called "Las penas" where we go up the stairs to see Guayaquil from a beautiful perspective.

This is beacuase the more the people the bigger the car I need to rent. 

Morning and afternoon in Guayaquil

Guayaquil Full Private City Tour

Best of Guayaquil Highlights - Full Day City Tour

Enjoy Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador.

We'll visit The Historical Park, to learn about the history and culture of the old Guayaquil city and the flora and fauna of this area.

You'll have a prehistoric and natural vision of The Seminario Park, most known as Iguanas Park because dozens of iguanas live in its gardens and just crossing the street The Metropolitan Cathedral of Guayaquil will welcome you to see it's beauty.

Finally Malecón 2000, offers you a 2. 5Km boardwalk that ends in Barrio Las Peñas and Santa Ana Hill where you'll have the opportunity to climb 444 steps to enjoy a wonderful view of the city from the Lighthouse.

Las Peñas (Santa Ana Hill Lighthouse) - Barrio Las Peñas (Faro en el Mirador del Cerro Santa Ana)

Las Peñas (Santa Hill Church) - Barrio Las Peñas (Iglesia en el Mirador del Cerro Santa Ana)

Guayaquil Historical Park - Parque Histórico de Guayaquil

Seminario Park (Iguanas Park) - Parque Seminario (Parque de las iguanas)

Las Peñas (Santa Ana Hill Stairs) - Barrio Las Peñas (Escalinatas del Cerro Santa Ana)

Las Peñas (Numa Pompilio Llona Street) - Barrio Las Peñas (Calle Numa Pompilio Llona)

Guayaquil Metropolitan Cathedral - Catedral San Pedro Apóstol

Seminar Park (Iguanas Park) - Parque Seminario (Parque de las iguanas)

Historical Park, Iguanas Park, Malecon 2000, Santa Ana Hill and Lighthouse

First time here or going to Galapagos the next day? this is right for you!

We'll find a city that emanates kindness and commerce everywhere, but also the history of an uncommon Independence that was born here. Many anecdotes and stories of all kinds, come with me to know about them from a local!

Also, to know the transformation this city had, in architecture and in every citizen like me. After the experience, a private vehicle will be waiting for us to take us to the location you have designated and part our ways with a great shared story to tell. Looking forward to meeting you!

Your Tourism Experience Concierge,
Allyson

Come with me and feel part of this kind city (A % will be donated to a social/environmental project)

Guayaquil Top Places

From Cacao to Chocolate with a Taste of Guayaquil

My favorite moment in this trip is to be able to make our own chocolate bars!!

Learn the lifestyle and traditions of the "Cultura montubia" of the coastal region of Ecuador firsthand. Enjoy the history of cocoa beans and traditional and modern processes used to obtain the best chocolate (Ecuador is one of the leading producers of high quality cocoa in the world).

This tour includes a visit to a cocoa plantation to learn about this process. From: seed - plants - through graft - harvesting - drying in the sun - roasting - until obtaining the cocoa paste.

I recommend starting with the chocolate experience, then having lunch and then returning to Guayaquil for a City Tour.

Visiting Guayaquil, is all about having fun

Visisting Guayaquil is a small groups / large groups affair. It will always be fun fun fun

CITY TOUR and cacao farm... The perfect combination

Cacao farm visit, learn about the chocolate industry in full detail

Photo magic: Is it the sunset or a city light ;)

Learning about cacaco plants and the grafting process

Every individual enjoy their own adventures

After grinding the beans, you're rewarded with a 100% chocolate paste tasting

Even the most common creature will have something new to show

Tropical fruits and chocolate? help yourself

Grinding cacao beans? Nah, it isn't that hard

During the City Tour we'd climb the Santa Ana hill

How about a little coffee break during the city tour? Yeah, why not?

Taste the perfect combination of modern city, rural life and quaint countryside

Visit a Local Cacao Family Farm Full-Day Shore Excursion

From the time of Spanish colonization until today, Ecuadorian cacao was and is very well appreciated by other countries around the world, such as France, Switzerland, Belgium, Nederlands, Germany, The Unites States of America, among other. But do the citizens of these countries know how is the process of the cacao? Why is it called "the golden seed"? How it became in chocolate? Come with me and discover all of this in a visit to a Local Cacao Farm.

This Cacao Farm is a typical family farm of the countryside of Guayaquil city, located only 32 miles away. It is surrounded by Churute Ecological Reserve's hills and the Churute River. Together we'll explore the farm that has rice and cacao plantations, a cacao green house, mango, papaya, dragon fruit, avocado, bread fruit trees, as well as tomato, green pepper, lemon grass, etc. Most of these will be the ingredients for your lunch and most of them are organic products.

Dessert with homemade chocolate of course!

Perfect treat to finish the cacao farm tour!

Enjoy Guayaquil's countryside and learn all about the cacao-to-chocolate process!

This tour would be the best option for people who only have one day in the city. We get to visit the countryside in the morning, learn all about the Cocoa since it's a seed until it becomes chocolate. After that we go back to the city to visit the main highlights of it. So in this tour you get to see the countryside and the city on the same day.

This is the entrance fee to the cocoa farm

This is because the more people in the tour the bigger car I need to rent

Morning in Cocoa farm and afternoon in Guayaquil

Cacao Farm and Guayaquil City Tour

First time here? This tour is for you!
I have always thought that a place is best known for bites of local food, so I have designed this experience with my favorite places in the city.
We'll find a city that emanates kindness and commerce in every corner of its downtown, also the history of an uncommon Independence born here. Many anecdotes and stories to tell from a local!

Through the experience, a private vehicle will be available to take us to every location. At the end, part our ways with a shared story to tell. Looking forward to meeting you!

Your Tourism Experience Concierge,
Allyson

If the group is more than 4 we'll use a Van

Come with me and feel part of this kind city (A % will be donated to a social project)

Guayaquil city tour and Gastronomy Places

Do you like to try food from the places you visit? On this tour we are going to visit 6 different places to taste different typical dishes that people from Guayaquil love.

Among the dishes you will try there are:
Bolón: With black coffee is the traditional "montuvio breakfast" and also a symbol of the coastal breakfast.

Encebollado: It is a hot soup with albacore, cassava, onion, and cilantro. It is served accompanied by chifles (fried plantains), popular as a remedy for the chuchaqui (hangover).

Chancho a la barbosa: from Paute, Azuay, is a marinated pork placed open and whole in a brick and coal oven so that it cooks with the heat for more than four hours.

Ceviche: Seafood served with lemon juice or in the case of shrimp with orange juice.

Pasteles: Chicken, Meat or Sausage, you decide whether to accompany it with lemon and chili. It is an appetizer that is enjoyed at all times in Guayaquil.

Cangrejos: Delicious Criollo Crabs.

Explore restaurants in Guayaquil in Six Hours Tour

Culinary Tour in Guayaquil

Mangroves Reserve / Cacao farm Full Day Trip

As naturalist guide I can only love this adventure because it is one of the most liked by nature lovers/ birdwatchers due to its abundance.

We always experience an in-depth visit to one of the few coastal rain-forests and mangroves that still survive in the world. And it is located just 45 minutes from Guayaquil

The adventure is divided in 3 stages:

• Estuary route : A place where you learn about the wildlife of the estuary. The mangrove ecosystem and its importance, the interaction between plants, crabs and birds. A place where we can see dozens of species of birds in their natural habitat.

• The howler mokeys route : A short trail walk (0. 8 mile) through a tropical dry forest, one of the few remaining virgin forests in mainland Ecuador. A place to have a close encounter with the bustle of the howler monkeys in the middle of the pristine habitat of a dry tropical forest.

• Cocoa farm: Witness the making of chocolate from cocoa beans and you will have a pleasant afternoon of experiential tourism.

Resting in hammocks after an excursion to the mangroves reserve

Birdwatching in the Churute mangroves reserve

Riding down the Churute estuary with yours truly .

Birdwatching? don't blame us if you want to stay here

Birdwatching Osprey ( they come down here during the northern hemisphere's winter

Lunch will be traditional ecuadorian meals served in a rustic cottage

Traditional ecuadorian meals, served in most gorgeous ways

Learning all about cacao... By the way this process that you see here? takes 4 months

Dragon fruit, We explore the countryside near Guayaquil, and learn quite a bit

BIRDWATCHING Not a snowy egret... This is a juvenile little blue heron

Birdwatching in the Churute Mangroves Reserve... Amazing

We find the most amazing creatures as we walk down the Dry tropical forest

We will immerse in the exuberant Mangrove and lush dry tropical forests

This is a short tour for people who don't have a complete free day in Guayaquil but still want to get an overview of the great city it is.
In this tour we do not visit the Historical Park, we just visit the Iguana Park, The Malecon 2000 and Las peñas, which are the most important highlights of the city.
It can be done at the morning, afternoon or night.

This is because the more the people I have in the tour the bigger the van I need to rent. 

Guayaquil tours

Explore with 29 tours and 5 guides.

Eduardo M.

$ 300 (USD)

Fernando I.

$ 190 (USD)

Mario F.

$ 250 (USD)

Elena D.

$ 440 (USD)

Allyson A.

$ 250 (USD)

Eduardo M.

$ 500 (USD)

Fernando I.

$ 310 (USD)

Mario F.

$ 325 (USD)

Allyson A.

$ 290 (USD)

Elena D.

$ 440 (USD)

Eduardo M.

$ 950 (USD)

Mario F.

$ 205 (USD)

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