Puerto Villamil, Ecuador Travel Blogs

Day 147: January 9, 2008 Isla Floreana
Jan 9, 2008 (23 photos)

... expired so I had to return to the surface. When the others returned, we returned to the boat and immediately set sail for Villamil on Isla Isabela. With three hours of sunlight left, a group of us stayed up on top looking for whales, dolphins and whale ...

Puerto Villamil, Isabella Island
Apr 22, 2008 (13 photos)

... buckets at 5:30 AM, but by 6:30 it had dropped to a light drizzle and eventually stopped altogether.  We disembarked for Puerto Villamil - a little dump of a town which is built on lava, out of cinder block and apparently a hot-bed of illegal fishing ...

Tortugas, flamencos sospechosos y caballitos
Mar 26, 2008 (31 photos)

Todos los locales me habían hablado de la maravillosa isla Isabela, así que no perdimos la oportunidad de hacer un tour de varios días para visitar esta isla en forma de caballito de mar.   La organización fue un poco caótica pero eso no influyó en ...

Galapagos after a two year hiatus
Oct 3, 2009

... and that was only for a few hours as well. I had just finished a semester studying abroad in el continente (mainland ecuador) and i remember reverse culture shock settling in on the boat through the Galapagos because my friend and I were thrown in with 12 ...

Isla Isabela
Mar 11, 2008 (42 photos)

There is a brilliant lagoon 15 minutes from home, where the snorkelling is just great. Always plenty to see, and sometimes some of the larger critters make an appearance too. Spent Saturday morning snorkelling there. There we were, minding our own ...

Tortoise breeding
Mar 14, 2008 (34 photos)

We've now done a week at the centre. Literally everything from feeding to painting the tortoises. Cutting down branches, trimming hedges, weeding paths, raking leaves and poisonous apples. I've discovered that I react particularly badly to the poisonous ...

4 weeks as a zoo keeper
Mar 6, 2008 (6 photos)

... wave (and there were many) we got completely drenched. Nice to finally arrive (2 1/2 hours later) and have a warm shower. Puerto Villamil is a small town, with fantastic volcanic stone pavements and sand streets. They are building like crazy here, can ...

Day 96 - Isabella - Rough Sea Journey
Sep 30, 2009 (5 photos)

... intact my amazing breakfast but there were several passengers who didn't keep theirs, they all had sick bags fortunately. As we arrived at Puerto Villamil in Isabella the sun seemed to come to life again. Puerto Villamil is a very small port of just a few ...

Isabella Island
May 8, 2008 (4 photos)

We went on an organized tour to Isabella Island, the largest in the Galapagos archipelago. After a 2 hour boat ride we met Julio, our guide who was waiting for us at the docks, he took us to the hotel(a very nice place, with air conditioning, TV and ...

Out and about
Mar 24, 2008 (94 photos)

... tour out to Las Tintoreras (The White Tipped Reef Sharks), which is a bunch of small islands just out from the port here in Puerto Villamil. The sharks use the lagoons between the islands as a place to rest, hence the name. Now we can honestly say that we ...

An unsure start
Nov 7, 2009

The ferry ride from Puerto Ayora to Isabela is nothing like what you might expect. By ferry, I actually mean small rickety boat that defies the laws of physics by actually crossing the OCEAN safely. Luckily I had no idea this is how it would be so I had no ...

Too much time on my hands
Nov 7, 2009

... a big fish in this little pond here. No one is very poor here, even though the prices are so much higher than mainland ecuador. However, no one saves money either, they live paycheck to paycheck. There isn't a bank on the island, just a "cooperativa" and ...