Guayaquil became my dream, ten more years ago. Visit this resort, with my husband it turned out only this year. Do you know what I liked most here? Forest park! You just imagine, on branches of exotic trees, instead of the faceless sparrow familiar to us, die with your coloring parrot and jump aparticles, which are absolutely not afraid of visitors. I wanted to walk around this park as in childhood, run along the paths and squeal from delight, I ate myself restrained the disgrace from this, but inside everything was simply turned away from the feeling of complete happiness and indescribable delight. Intrigued?
Planning or only dreaming about a trip to this country, take a note next information. Citizens of Ukraine, a visa for visiting Ecuador is not needed, but only if you do not plan to linger on the territory of this country longer than on ninety-day. At the airport to the passport, the T-Z visas are seal with the number of allowed days of stay.
At customs, it is allowed to carry three hundred pieces of cigarettes with them, fifty cigars or two hundred tobacco grams. Alcohol is also allowed in an amount that does not exceed one liter. Perfumery, perfume and personal hygiene products should be minimal and meet personal needs. This is what you can drive without paying duty. If you want to take with you everything and more, then you will note that in this case you have to lay out a very round sum. But it seems to me that this is quite enough, because it's not fat, you go to the local beaches to eat, but to get a lot of positive emotions from a full exotic holiday.
As a local currency, American dollars use here. Want to exchange money? Not a problem, as this can be done in banks or exchange offices, which are called "Casa de Cambio" here. Banks work from nine in the morning to half a second day, then follows a clock break and already half the third door of banking institutions, open up for the visitor again, the reception time of visitors in half of the seventh-evening. As a rule, banks do not work on weekends, but some work on Saturdays. On Saturday days, the doors of banks open at half past nine in the morning, and close at two in the afternoon. On Sunday, you will not find any employee bank, so if you have the need for money exchange, you will have to use the services of exchange points. Cash exchange operation is paid and you can take from one to four percent of the total amount. In hotels and large stores, you can pay credit cards, but only for their service, it is often charged to a decent amount that ranges from six to eight percent of the cost of the operation, that is, if you pay a credit card service, which is worth a hundred dollars, That is additionally you can remove from six to eight American dollars.
The brightest dish of national cuisine, there are a variety of soups. The taste of soups, it will not be possible to repeat even the best chefs, since local residents have their secrets that they will never open you. If I started talking about soups, I will continue the topic, since the soup is mainly prepared on the water. Water here is a separate topic, since it is categorically impossible to drink. This is me about tap water. But the water that is sold in bottles, you can drink without the slightest fear, you can also prepare food on this water, for example, try to cook soup. Water from under the tap, it is not recommended to wash fruit and brushing your teeth, that is, rinse the oral cavity after cleaning the teeth. Take a shower, quite safe.
The local population, speaks Spanish, but in the hotel we perfectly understood in English. I do not speak any of the languages, except Russian and gestures. By the way, the language of gestures, I consider it universal, because if my faithless is not nearby, and he is fluent in my own English, then I wonder without him using the language of gestures.
Ecuador as a whole is considered a relatively safe country. However, from small vorays and this paradise is not insured. No one is clear that it will not take anything to take anything, but to pull the wallet from the pocket, quite normal phenomenon, especially in crowded places. With my husband, we have been traveling no first year. He longer me, because I started my traveler's career from the very moment when I met him. So, we have already developed a habit, leave all the most valuable things, including documents, in a safe cell that are available in all self-respecting hotels. In order to feel calm on the streets of any city of the world, it is enough to have a minimal amount of cash and photocopy of the passport. I had a case when I had to wear all my cash with me. I entered as follows - all the money sorted in different pockets. It is clear that this is not a way out, but in this way I insured myself from what remains at all without a penny.
For shopping lovers, I inform the joyful news that all stores work every day, except Sunday from nine in the morning to six o'clock in the evening. Lunch as a rule lasts two hours from twelve day to two o'clock in the afternoon, in some stores the lunchtime begins at an hour of the day, and ends at three in the afternoon. During the festivals, as well as during religious holidays, shops and offices, do not work, and in hotels it is almost impossible to find a free place.
Tips in Guayaquil, this is a separate topic. To give them accepted, especially in catering establishments, such as cafes and restaurants. In cheap restaurants and average cafes, it is customary to leave tips in the amount of ten percent. The money does not fall on the table, but are given directly to the waiter. Situation in expensive restaurants, rather shadow. In addition to the fact that you leave traditional ten percent, so you still consider ten percent of the tax. One thing pleases that you do not need to leave tips in a taxi, but about the price of the trip, you must negotiate with the driver in advance.