A rare tropical dry forest walk paired with Guayaquil's city highlights, minutes from downtown.
A private tour combining a guided walk through the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, one of Ecuador's most important tropical dry forests, with the highlights of Guayaquil's main city — wildlife, ceibo trees, and curated downtown stops, all in one private day.
A private tour pairing a genuine dry-forest nature walk with Guayaquil's city highlights — Cerro Blanco sits just outside the city, so both fit comfortably into one day.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private roundtrip pickup and drop-off from your Guayaquil hotel.
Walk marked trails through towering ceibo trees and fragrant guayacan blossoms in one of Ecuador's most important tropical dry forests.
Look for over 200 bird species recorded in the reserve, including the rare Guayaquil great green macaw, plus howler monkeys and other wildlife.
Round out the day with curated stops covering Guayaquil's main city sights.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour combining a guided walk through the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest, one of Ecuador's most important tropical dry forests, with the highlights of Guayaquil's main city — wildlife, ceibo trees, and curated downtown stops, all in one private day. A private tour pairing a genuine dry-forest nature walk with Guayaquil's city highlights — Cerro Blanco sits just outside the city, so both fit comfortably into one day.
Tropical dry forest is a genuinely unusual thing to find a short drive from a major coastal city, and Cerro Blanco exists at all because of the same ocean geography that shapes Guayaquil's climate: the cold Humboldt Current running up the coast suppresses rainfall along this stretch of Ecuador, creating arid-to-semi-arid conditions that support a forest type very different from the humid rainforest most visitors expect from Ecuador. The roughly 6,078-hectare reserve, managed by the conservation foundation Fundación Pro-Bosque, protects one of the last significant remnants of this ecosystem anywhere in the country.
The numbers here are real conservation markers, not marketing figures: more than 1,400 recorded species of flora and fauna, over 200 bird species, more than 50 mammal species (upwards of 20 of them bats), and over 500 vascular plant species, including the towering ceibo trees the forest is known for. The great green macaw sighted here — often called the Guayaquil macaw locally — is a particularly rare find; researchers believe the population surviving in this one reserve may number as few as 10 individuals, making Cerro Blanco functionally the last stronghold for this bird in Ecuador.
Because the reserve sits just outside the city rather than deep in the countryside, it's genuinely practical to walk its marked trails in the morning and still have a full afternoon left for Guayaquil's downtown highlights in the same private day.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.