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Dolphins, mangrove forests, and migratory birdlife on the coast near Puerto El Morro.
A private full-day trip from Guayaquil through the mangrove forests of Puerto El Morro on the Ecuadorian coast, spotting frigatebirds, albatross, pink herons, cormorants, and boobies in their natural habitat, without needing to fly to the Galapagos.
A private day trip to the Puerto El Morro coast — your own guide and vehicle throughout, with a local boat used for the mangrove and birdwatching portion.
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.
Travel from Puerto Morro through coastal mangrove forests toward Isla de los Pajaros (Bird Island).
Spot frigates, albatross, pink herons, cormorants, and boobies in their natural coastal habitat.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private full-day trip from Guayaquil through the mangrove forests of Puerto El Morro on the Ecuadorian coast, spotting frigatebirds, albatross, pink herons, cormorants, and boobies in their natural habitat, without needing to fly to the Galapagos. A private day trip to the Puerto El Morro coast — your own guide and vehicle throughout, with a local boat used for the mangrove and birdwatching portion.
Puerto El Morro sits on a different stretch of coastline from the Churute reserve — a small fishing village on the inner Gulf of Guayaquil, reached by road in under two hours from the city, where the estuary opens out toward the open Pacific rather than running inland along a river system. The bottlenose dolphins that live in these channels are a genuinely distinct resident population: peer-reviewed genetic research on the Gulf of Guayaquil's inner estuary has found this group to be measurably distinct from outer-estuary and open-ocean bottlenose dolphin populations elsewhere along the Ecuadorian coast, likely the result of generations spent in the estuary's unusual mix of strong tidal currents, lower salinity, and high biological productivity. They're not performing dolphins trained to approach boats — they're a wild population that has simply adapted to live, feed, and raise young inside this specific estuary.
Past the dolphin channels, the route continues out to Isla de los Pájaros — Bird Island — a small, uninhabited outcrop in open water that functions as a nesting and roosting site for thousands of seabirds at once. Frigatebirds dominate the skyline here, often visible as dense, circling flocks overhead, alongside pelicans, herons, gulls, and blue-footed boobies using the same rocks and low scrub to nest and rest between feeding trips out to sea.
It's worth being clear about the geography: this is a separate ecosystem from the Churute mangroves tours covering the Taura/Naranjal side of the Gulf — Puerto El Morro's estuary and its dolphin population sit closer to the open coast, which is exactly why the two trips show genuinely different wildlife rather than overlapping versions of the same mangrove walk.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
