Forget ISLA DE LA PLATA! MACHALILLA Manabi is amazing! | ECUADOR

Outside Puerto Lopez, Machalilla beach in Manabi is the perfect local spot to eat seafood and take a snorkeling boat tour.

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Staying in Puerto Lopez, we were supposed to take an Isla de la Plata tour aka Poor Man's Galapagos. But it was cancelled at the last minute so we decided to have a beach day at Los Frailes National Park. Unfortunately it was a holiday weekend and everyone else wanted to go there too with a long line of cars.

So instead we decided to keep driving just around the corner. We had checked out Machalilla before, it's just on the other side of Los Frailes and is beautiful.

Immediately we were approached to take an hour long boat tour of Machalilla for $10/person. We had no idea there would be a guide, we'd see a penguin, lots of birds and amazing coastline.

If you want to take the tour head to the end of the beach by the fishermen and there are people selling the tours on the weekends. But our guide Karina said you can send her a whatsapp message and book one in advance and it can be arranged during the week as well.

Karina Pincay
+593 97 975 9438


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