Yunguilla Ecuador is home to amazing views and traditional Ecuadorian food that is difficult to find elsewhere in the country. It is a perfect Ecuador road trip, and along the way check out these spots.

Los Alamos in Naranjal is a bakery just on the side of the road on the way to Yunguilla valley and it is known to have some the best empanadas.
The empanada is actually super soft, almost like a pizza crust. I can see why this is one of the best places for empanadas in Ecuador.

Lácteos El Paso which is on the way to Yunguilla Valley. And we stopped here for yogurt and ice cream. In this region, there is probably eight billion dollars worth of gold below. And so Ecuador has kind of a not so great history of mining. Where mining companies, mostly from China and Canada, have come into different regions and have basically extracted what they wanted from the land, gave a little bit of opportunity and money to the community. But then left the land, basically destroyed

Here they learned from other regions and they do not want to give up their land, which is primarily dairy farming for the short term opportunity of gold and the promises that they know these mining companies are not going to keep.

Portete de Tarqui is a war monument, long history in Latin America, but basically, this one is for the war between Ecuador and Peru, which obviously no longer exists.

El Chorro actually doesn't mean waterfall, it means stream. And that's because there are so many big waterfalls in Ecuador that this is more like a stream. It's a 10 minute walk to this waterfall in Giron. Be sure to bring a rainjacket. Entry is $3 and money goes directly to the community.

La Fritada de la Union is a great spot for cascaritas and sancocho in Yunguilla Ecuador. Cascaritas are actually blow torched pork skin.

It has the texture of what it would be like if it were deep fried because it's very crispy but there's no oil added. It's just simply blowtorched. And so then you have this dish called sancocho is not like in Cuba or Colombia where it is a soup.

t's put into a large bronze pot and then it's cooked in its own pork lard. So, that is what we are here for. Cascaritas is like a pork chip. It's different than chicharron. It's almost like glass.

Sancocho is different than hornado. It's crispy on the outside. It almost has a little bit of a crust and then super tender in the middle. Hornado might be one of the most popular dishes in Ecuador.If you want to try something very traditional that you can't have anywhere, cascaritas and sancocho is definitely a dish you need to try.

Zafrah means sugarcane plantation and here you can try sugarcane juice, aguardiente, guarapo and mapanagua. It's a modern spot, which I like because it gives hope for continuing this tradition.

Cafeteria Sabor Oriental refers to the Orient in Ecuador. The owner here spent some time in the Amazon. We came for the bolon and for the yucca. Bolon is green plantain that has been mashed. On the interior you have cheese or also here you have fritada which is crispy bits of pork and of course you get salad.


00:00 Introduction
00:20 Los Alamos
02:45 Lacteos El Paso
05:23 Portete de Tarqui
06:19 El Chorro Waterfall
09:52 Cascaritas + Sancocho
12:25 Mapanagua
15:00 Bolon and Yuca

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