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City sights and a cacao plantation combined in one private half day.
A private half day combining both Guayaquil city and the Cacao Route with your own guide, visiting a nearby cocoa plantation for a hands-on chocolate-making experience before touring the excitement of Ecuador's largest city, including a stop at the Malecon Simon Bolivar, with lunch included.
A private half-day tour, done at your own pace with private transport throughout, pairing a cocoa plantation visit with Guayaquil's city highlights in one trip.
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.
Visit a nearby cocoa plantation for a hands-on chocolate-making experience.
Stop at the Malecon Simon Bolivar boardwalk along the Guayas River.
Enjoy a lunch included as part of the tour.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private half day combining both Guayaquil city and the Cacao Route with your own guide, visiting a nearby cocoa plantation for a hands-on chocolate-making experience before touring the excitement of Ecuador's largest city, including a stop at the Malecon Simon Bolivar, with lunch included. A private half-day tour, done at your own pace with private transport throughout, pairing a cocoa plantation visit with Guayaquil's city highlights in one trip.
The Malecon Simon Bolivar has roots going back further than most visitors expect. What's now a roughly 2.5-kilometer riverside promenade began in 1820 as a simple dock called La Orilla, and had grown into a proper boardwalk by the mid-19th century, known for a time as the Promenade of Foreign Countries before it took its current name honoring Simon Bolivar. The version you'll walk today is largely the product of "Malecon 2000," a major urban-renewal project completed around the turn of the millennium that transformed the riverfront into a connected stretch of parks, gardens, monuments, and museums along the Guayas River — recognized by regional health authorities as a model of urban public space. One landmark along the way, La Rotonda, commemorates the historic 1822 meeting between Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin, two of South America's independence leaders.
The cacao side of the day stays hands-on rather than just informational: you'll be shown the actual chocolate-making process at a working plantation, not just told about it. The farms visited sit within Guayas province, part of the region Ecuador's own cacao variety — Nacional — has been associated with for generations, long traded as "cacao de arriba" through Guayaquil's own port.
Pairing the two in one half-day isn't an arbitrary combination. Much of the wealth that built Guayaquil's historic downtown — the buildings, monuments, and public spaces you see along the Malecon — came from the same early-20th-century cacao export boom that made Ecuador briefly the world's top cacao producer. Seeing where that chocolate actually comes from and the city it helped build, in the same afternoon, ties together two halves of the same real history.
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