Puerto Ayora, Ecuador Travel Blogs

GALAPAGOS !!!
Mar 14, 2008 (97 photos)

... and they're bustling around and eating...this place breeds them and then sends then back to their home island.  I walk around Puerto Ayora...I'm going to spend another five days there after my boat experience and I'm glad I chose to.  This is a ...

Darth Vader Tortoise
Mar 8, 2008 (7 photos)

... Darth Vader, so we nicknamed him, "The Darth Vader Tortoise".  See video of him here.   We then transferred to Puerto Ayora and checked onto our boat, the Galápagos Voyager.   Once we saw the boat, we felt really good about spending ...

Bye-Bye Galápagos
Mar 15, 2008 (6 photos)

Today was our last day on the Galápagos Islands, very sad!  We left the Galápagos Voyager at 7am, and transferred to the airport on Baltra Island with just a quick stop at the Twin Craters on Santa Cruz Island.  Here it was time to say goodbye ...

On Blue-Footed Boobies
Aug 2, 1998

more later

Giant Tortoise !!! South Plazas and Santa Cruz
Sep 16, 2009 (36 photos)

... had my eyes closed while imaging that I am in a crib and getting rocked to sleep.     We arrived at Puerto Ayora at the southern part of Santa Cruz Island where water is calm. Thank goodness. We visited the Charles Darwin Reaserch station ...

Galapagos Islands
Sep 8, 2007 (5 photos)

... . This strange wonderful isolated world sits alone in the Pacific Ocean, six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador. The Galapagos define individuality. Each island has its own uniqueness, including landscape, flora and fauna, both land ...

Puerto Ayora, Galapagos
May 7, 2008 (68 photos)

to be done

Diving Galapagos: Gordon Rocks
Nov 5, 2006 (3 photos)

What a day!!! November 5th 2006 is Hammerhead Day - now officially a National Holiday (should I ever get the opportunity to run a small country!?!) A cup of tea in Scuba Iguana before our briefing and taxi ride to a professional looking boat with good ...

Wildlife Wonderland
Dec 26, 2008 (41 photos)

It's a long time since I was filled with childlike wonder on Christmas Day, but I found myself just giggling with delight this year... through a snorkel.  The rocky area just off our afternoon beach was just full  ...

Galapagos Islands
Nov 3, 2006 (29 photos)

We have just finished our eight day cruise of the Galapagos Islands and i feel I need a thesaurus beside me to find enough adjectives to describe the abject beauty we have seen this week! The islands are beautiful in themselves but the animals were ...

We got our camera back!!!
Apr 25, 2007 (5 photos)

Hello, Well you´ll be pleased to know we have our camera back, in one piece, so we will be able to send you pictures after our tour. We have booked an 8 day tour and leave on Saturday. Our boat is very posh, and has seriously hurt our budget, we think ...

The Galapagos Voyage Part 1
May 12, 2009 (19 photos)

... about their routines of eating, sleeping, cooling off in lakes, etc. A visit to a lava tube came next, and then we headed to Puerto Ayora to board the Galaxy, taking pangas (dingy motor boats) to get there. We had paid a small fortune for this part of the ...

Diving the Galapagos
Jan 22, 2008

... I was a little surprised to see an island who's landscape looked a bit like outback Australia. But the hour trip to Puerto Ayora confirmed this, outback bushland!!! It didn't take long though for the interesting stuff to start... I went straight to the ...

Galapagos Islands
Sep 13, 2007 (5 photos)

... were almost wiped out by sailors after fresh meat. The islands are on the Equator about 1000km from Ecuador mainland. The islands I visited are: Santa Cruz Santa Fe Espanola Florena Rabida Santiago Bartolome There are huge differences ...

Beautiful Galapagos
Apr 14, 2009

I warn you now this could be a long entry. There may be long paragraphs waffling on a lot about animals and fish. I make no apology for this but I do warn you so those who have no interest can skip ahead now, or maybe just learn to skim read! The ...

Cruising the Galapagos
May 10, 2009 (26 photos)

8 dagen op het schip de Sulidae doorgebracht, een soort Black Pearl met het bouwjaar 1901, die jammer genoeg niet meer zeilt. Wel leuk dat het echt een uniek schip was en nogal opvalt tussen alle luxe, witte moterjachten.  En hoewel het zeker niet ...

Diving Galapagos: Cousins and Bartolome
Nov 6, 2006 (11 photos)

Another fantastic day of diving! Down to Scuba Iguana for 7am and a cold cup of tea - must remember to boil the kettle tomorrow! Diving today was at Cosins Rock (world famous in diving circles) and Bartolome. Conditions were perfect on the way out in the ...

The Galapagos
Feb 25, 2009 (13 photos)

... in the waters around us every day! We arrived in the Galapagos Saturday morning and spent the day touring the town of Puerto Ayora. Since then we´ve gone snorkeling, hiking around the island, and buying more provisions for the long trip ahead. Wildlife ...

A wonderful week in the Galapagos (cont)
Apr 16, 2007 (10 photos)

Hello again, Day 5 - Santa Cruz Today we visited Santa Cruz which has the largest town in the Islands, Puerto Ayora. In the morning we visited the Charles Darwin Research Centre and learnt a little about the conservation work taking place on the ...

Flew to Baltra, Galapagos...
Oct 20, 2006 (11 photos)

Wow! Land of the giant tortoises and plenty more mad creatures who have no fear of humans. From the land we saw giant tortoises, marine iguanas, pelicans, boobies (yes they are really called that! We decided against a boat tour so we could do our own ...

Last Minute Galapagos
Sep 28, 2007 (3 photos)

... From the airport on Baltra you have to take a bus to the ferry port, a ferry to Santa Cruz Island and another bus to Puerto Ayora.  That journey alone is a great introduction to the Galapagos.  Not many animals to speak of at that point but you ...

Cruising the Galapagos
Sep 24, 2009 (30 photos)

OK so if I´d stopped and thought about it for more than 5 seconds I would have realised I was way off track... but I had this fantasy that I would be sailing the Galapagos on this gorgeous 40ft sailboat, visiting some islands to see the animals, ...

The Galapogus
Aug 14, 2007 (20 photos)

So after meeting my brother from Quito airport at midnight, we were back there again at 5.50am to fly out to the Galapogus. It was great to see him and we were both looking forward to doing some diving. What we didnt realise beforehand was that the ...

Day 148: January 10, 2008 P. Villamil to P. Ayora
Jan 10, 2008 (36 photos)

... . Afterward, I gave Chico Bags to Antonio, German, Jico, and Juan Carlos and then helped Gonzalo and German make out receipts for everyone. That done, I went down to my cabin to write and retire. We arrived in Puerto Ayora and dropped anchor about 10:30.

Galapagos Islands
Nov 18, 2004 (8 photos)

I decided to go out and celebrate with some of my Quito friends the night before I was to depart to the Galapagos Islands. This would be both one of the scariest and the most fun nights of my travels so far. Five of us went for cocktails at the ...

Of Lions and Boobies
Oct 18, 2009 (116 photos)

... you) just grunted and went back to sleep :-) In short, the Galapagos are an archipelago of islands 1000 km off Ecuador’s coast. They’ve always been isolated from the mainland which meant that the wildlife and flora have diverged and changed ...

The missing link?
Jul 11, 2008 (88 photos)

... a last minute 8 day boat cruse around the islands which sets off tomorrow, 16 June, so very exciting. I´ve been in Puerto Ayora for 5 days and its been amazing already and I´ve not really been anywhere. Yesterday, I went to the Giant Tortoise Breeding ...

Hier had ik dus vantevoren niet van durven dromen
May 1, 2009

Gister een vlucht geboekt, en vandaag maar op de dolle plof naar de Galapagos gevlogen. Ik moet zeggen dat het idee om op de Galapagos eilanden te zijn op zich al bijzonder is, maar het wordt nog mooier; na zwaar onderhandelen hebben we een 8 daagse ...

Oh my Galapagos!
Sep 25, 2007 (49 photos)

... the last 4 days of our trip. We enjoyed meeting new people from Denmark, the U.S. (Texas and New York), France, Switzerland, Ecuador, and Australia. Our small little room was on the bottom of the ship...not a great place to spend time when you are feeling ...

Mon p'tit nom, c'est ZEBULON
Nov 5, 2007 (4 photos)

Sur mon petit bout d'ile a moi, il est 6 heures du matin a peine mais j'ouvre déjà un oeil car je sens que le soleil pointe son nez dans le ciel et commence a me réchauffer le ventre. Il faut dire que sur mon ile, Floreana, un petit bout d'ile de l'archipel ...