Puerto Lopez Travel Guide
From Wikitravel
Puert López lies at the Pacific Coast of Ecuador. It is a dirt-road (or mudslide depending on the rainfall) fishing village lying in a bay on a wide stretch of beach. In the evenings and morning there is usually no electricity.
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Get in
Get around
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Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Soll Inn, Juan Montalval near Elroy Alfaro offers nicely decorated rooms in bamboo structures. Rooms have fan and musquitonets. It has outdoor kitchen with common area. Hot showers depend on the electricity supply in the village. Doubles cost $10.
Get out
Puerto López is the closest village to Parque Nacional Machilalla. The park headquarter is one block behind the plaza in Pto López and also features a small museum.
Places you can visit on your own is the tranquil beach Playa los Frailes and the village Agua Blanca which has a small museum and from here you can hire a guide ($3.00) to visit a Manta argeological site. Longer treks are possible but a guide is required.
Several tour agents organise trips to Isla la Plata (around $25 not including park fees) combined with whale watching trips, if it's the right season. The humpbackwhale season is from June to September. Diving is also possible.
The entrance for foreigners to the park is $20 if you visit both the mainland area and the island. If you only want to visit the mainland the entrance is $12 and for the island it's $15.
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