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Galapagos Islands Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Ah Bartoleme!
This is a top pick! ... seals and iguanas – no hawks or ravens or wolfs of vultures to clean up corpses, so the perfect little CSI Galapagos scenes are everywhere showing the insides of what we could see in quantities, outside. Cool – really cool. ...
Goodbye Old Friends - Hello New friends
This is a top pick! ... to find others using the beach - quite a few others. This is a surf beach and not everyone who comes to the Galapagos does the cruise thing. Some folks who are prone to sea sickness fly in to either airport and spend time on those islands and ...
GALAPAGOS !!!
This is a top pick! First day on the Galapagos. I get this huge rush as I see the islands from the plane...and then after multiple transfers to get to the boat, I meet my boat mates for the week...I like them all...esp my roommate...this is a varied group, in age and ...
Galapagos Day 1
This is a top pick! ... trusty guide Enrique, in search of a sighting. Enrique is a 21 year old kid from the Galapagos Islands, has been guiding on different boats for a few years and is knowledgeable, really mature beyond his years and has an amazing ...
First dive in the Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... We needed to go diving here to test out the equipment that we will be renting for our liveaboard. We found ourselves on "The Galapagos Party Boat" with about fourteen 20 somethings! Oh joy! Actually, it wasn't an alcohol fuelled party at all. Most of the ...
Goodbye Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... from the other, each one full of 'firsts', and at this age that is getting harder and harder to come by! The Galapagos is truly a special place - impossible to explain and not what I expected at all. It was a week I will never forget and all the ...
Bye Bye Deep Blue......sniff
This is a top pick! ... fourth time I think, and are now leaving a day later, because the Antarctic Austrians (aka Sylvia and Christian) are coming to the Galapagos today! It's been two months since we last saw them in Antarctica, and so we are going to have loads to catch up ...
Meet Lard-Ass and happy 36th aboard Amigo!!!
This is a top pick! ... Manchester pub, lets say a few weeks from now, bragging to all his local friends. "Hi guys, never ever go to Ecuador, it sucks big time. The Galapagos Islands are a big joke if you ask me. The Amazon you say, hey don't even go there!!!" So the biggest ...
We've Arrived!
This is a top pick! ... wanting to visit for years! The flight to Baltra was only one and a half hours. As we approached the Galapagos we got our first glimpse of the islands. The airport is little more than a couple of sheds, and after waiting for an eternity the gate was ...
This is my Latin America (aka a year on the road).
This is a top pick! ... , Lonely Planet, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colón, frijoles, crampons, dinosaurs, Mojitos, studying maps, dreadlocks, choppy water, Galapagos Islands,... ...gorgeous mosquitos and women by the truckload... Tomorrow morning my brother and I are off on ...
And the winner is....
This is a top pick! ... just two steps in front of you, that's amazing. So while I wasn't thrilled about the high costs of the Galapagos trip, I thought it's something that you just have to do if you're already going to be in Ecuador. Luckily, Steve agreed with ...
It Just Gets Better and Better!
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 324 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Hot and sunny, rain in the afternoons Galapagos Day Three Today we had a long lie….well, until about 8am. We ventured back down to Tortuga Bay, stopping to take another gazillion photos of ...
And onwards to San Cristobal
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 329 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Sunny and Rainy Galapagos Day 9 was a washout. It rained from late morning almost all day until late afternoon. There was no chance to get out and about to see things and take photos. Galapagos ...
Tortuga Bay and the Marine Iguanas
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 327 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Same, same News Flash. We have extended our return flights by a few days. This now gives us a week after we return from our liveaboard so we can recover and continue enjoying the incredible ...
The Gorgeous Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... theres not much in the way of internet access! I really dont know where to start, but I have to say that the Galapagos Islands is truly the most amazing place on earth! Its indescribably beautiful...... Let me start from the beginning..... I flew ...
Boobies and more Boobies
This is a top pick! ... big boat, get in the small boat without falling, get off the small boat onto the beach without falling, and then walk.....the Galapagos Cruise is not like other cruises where your fear of falling is off your chair at the buffet because the legs ...
A world like no other!
This is a top pick! ... Sea Sick the first day (but he was fine after that) 2. Having my schedule set and managed by somebody else. The Galapagos Islands like Kapawi are a completely unique and amazing experience. We went on a Boat called The Legend. It was a 90 person ...
Are you Lonesome tonight? In the Galapagos
This is a top pick! ... and headed off to the airport, where we were dropped not at domestic or international terminal but a small gate called ‘Galapagos Islands’, where extra baggage checks and lots of form filling is done. We were checked in for our flight pretty ...
What the frig? No frisky Frigates
This is a top pick! ... in case. Just before the trail started we found an information centre which was definitely the best we have seen on the Galapagos Islands. We may have spent about 45 minutes in there, it detailed the huge growth of local population and tourism over the ...
Sum it up
This is a top pick! ... to mate with them. They will attempt cloning as a last resort as it is expensive and not often successful. I would highly recommend a trip to the Galapagos to anyone. It was excellent. I hope some of you will have the good fortune to go some day ...
Galapagos islands
This is a top pick! ... for 8 passengers (small by Galapagos standards). Booking at the last minute I got a 40% discount (though all trips to the galapagos are costly). Coincidentally, I met Gemma and Shelley, two of the other passengers who would be on the boat at my hostel in ...
Chilling with tunes on the best beach in Ecuador
This is a top pick! ... to be fair with a glorious sun rise and a huge school of dolphins leaping very high out of the water, another amazing Galapagos sight. The other English couple was a bloke form Leek who recognised a Northern accent and instantly wanted to chat, they had ...
Birds, Birds, Everywhere!
This is a top pick! ... We arrived at Genovesa at dawn after almost a full night of cruising. And there was sunshine, yeah! We left Galapagos Voyager at 8:00am and headed towards the island. We cruised along the shore of Darwin Bay, which is a ...
Galapagos Day 2
This is a top pick! ... only could see it if it moved. We did have the chance to swim with the sea lions but not to the extent that we would have liked. We visited two islands today and snorkled at each one. I will add pictures but they may not be from this particular ...
Week 6 in a mad corner of the world..
This is a top pick! ... must admit that with the lack of any sort of entertainment here even I was very excited by the thought of one of Ecuador's most famous groups. You can imagine our dissapointment then when 4 teenagers hopped onto the stage and began rapping in Spanish. ...
Off to the Galapagos.
This is a top pick! ... category at the risk of offending some of you. So, as we boarded in Quito and saw the masses of Galapagos bound folks travelling in Penguin packs, following their tour guide leaders, hauling every Tilley gadget and bird watching binoculars and ...
Lava Landscape
This is a top pick! ... even considering how out of shape we were, as there were nice wide, shallow wooden steps that led all the way to the summit. The view from the top was really nice - we saw the dramatic landscape of Bartolomé, and several islands in the ...
Shari is Sick & Chloe's Birthday
This is a top pick! Schedule: Espanola Island: land surface 60 sq km, height 206m Punta Suarez 08:00 Dry landing at the jetty for a walk. The terrain is rocky and uneven. Always maintain a certain distance (2m) from sea lions especially since the ...
Around Puerto Ayora
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE: Day : 324 Temperature : 32 degrees Weather : Hot and sunny, rain in the afternoons Galapagos Day Two The alarm went off at 5am. Groan! Unfortunately you have to get up early if you want to see the sunrise. Mark, Kev and headed down to the ...
Surrounded by Sea Lions..
This is a top pick! ... a bird dropping dead out of the sky!) and high in the sky the frigate birds cicle with their dinosaurian wing-span. The Galapagos Islands are volcanic and the black lava rocks, barren landscape and these birds sometimes make me think I am on a cross ...