Guayaquil, Ecuador - Funny Feeling

Like Deja-Vu, All Over Again
Ecuador is so varied - the Amazon jungle, the Andes and now this.  The largest city in Ecuador is nothing like the rest of the country.  Hot, sticky, languid - it's perched on a slow-moving grey river that oozes into the Pacific.  We came out of the mountains, down 6,000 feet and entered a completely new world.  It feels like a sauna.  But, hang on, I've been here before, I think.  What about it is so familiar?

The architecture looks so familiar.  The heat, the noise.  There are over 3 million people packed on both sides of the river.

I've walked on sidewalks like these before, thankfully, which are smartly designed to keep the sun off of you.

Then it hit me.  Malaysia.  It looks exactly like every city I've ever been to in Malaysia - Johor Bahru in particular.  Dodo had that same feeling "this could be Singapore 60 years ago."

We're here only for a day - tomorrow we leave for the Galapagos Islands.  We'll take a look around just a bit.