We are heading north close to the shore and beaches are full and wide, sometimes as wide as a football field. Waves are big and roaring, pounding the coastline steadily. We keep going north, pass by small fishing towns like San Pedro , Valdivia , Cadeate , and Manglaralto . We are at Monta ita now, a surfers town. Everything becomes greener, and small ridges and mountains appear closer.
Vast beaches follow.
The sea is overwhelming and stronger and the shores seem endless. In few minutes we are at a mountain ridge area. About 30 minutes from Monta ita we are faced by a cordillera that starts at La Entrada , where the climb starts to a tropical rainforest rising out of nowhere in the middle of this desert like coast. This is the Cordillera Colon Colonche , that originates near Guayaquil and comes to end like one of its rivers, here at the deep blue ocean. The tropical cloud forest vegetation is one of the few that still exist wild on the primarily agricultural Ecuadorian coast.