Montañita is blanketed with cocktails ….and twenty-somethings…peacocking. This Ecuadorian beachside village is described by Lonely Planet as a party place with a surfing problem, which is probably a pretty accurate assessment. Fortunately we didn’t see party mode in full throttle, but I’m sure it’s somewhere we would have appreciated twenty years ago. The main town included heaps of tourist infrastructure…
Although we found some charm, most people don’t swoon over Guayaquil, which is Ecuador’s second largest city of 2.7 million people and the commercial heart of the country. Instead, it’s more functional with an international airport which often serves as the jumping off point for tourists heading to the Galapagos Islands. The city, which is perched on the edge of…