Iguana 'watching'... in a public plaza!

Hi there! Back in Lima now! My first post about the trip to Guayaquil has to do with a park in the middle of the city...

Parque Seminario, also known as 'Parque de las Iguanas' is a few metres across from Guayaquil's Cathedral.

It is a small park with a few trees and possibly a couple hundred of iguanas!


Some of them come down the trees at around noon and go back up when the sun sets...


They share the park with some birds, mostly pigeons, that look strange while walking around the iguanas... I think some pigeons might want to 'change flocks', as the long tailed fellows get more attention (and food) from the visitors.


All sizes and colours: from one to five feet long, from bright green to dark brown, they walk around, lay quiet on the stone paths or grass, climb up the trees...


They eat celery and lettuce that some people bring for them, a couple fight over the same piece making sounds and trying to bite each other...


After 'lunch' some of them go up again and stay on the branches above people's heads, we stood up in the sun, then saw a few iguanas on the top peeing!, quite funny to see people jumping around trying to avoid the 'attack'...


I hope you liked this post, we had a lot of fun watching these guys and some others that I'll upload and talk about in the following days :)