Monte Cristi Ecuador

Port of Manta, Ecuador with population of 250,000

Souvenir maket for the tourists

Selling Panama hats and Alpaca blankets etc

Ecuardorian are the ones that orginally made these hats here and sent them to Panama to sell.

That is why they started calling Panama hat

A local girl at the market

Alpaca hats

They call this coconut seed Vegetable Ivory and carved to this beautiful animals

Monte Cristi about half an hour taxi from the port.

This town is the hub of Panama hat manufacture

A church in Monte Cristi

A museum

An entrance to the monument building

Inside of the building

Faces of the presidents in the past

Ecuadorian national flag

One of many Panama hat shops on this town strip

We bought 3 hats price ranging from $4 to $40.00

Greg back to the port of Manta wearing his newly purchase

Manta´s main income is this Tuna (Atun in Spanish)

Tuna in container

Perhaps he is selling Magnum ice bar?

Our cruise in distance

Good night