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Puerto Ayora Slideshow
Puerto Ayora
Travel Blogs from Puerto Ayora, Ecuador
Sunrise and Sea Lions
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE : Day : 325 Temperature 32 degrees Weather : Sunny with Rainy Showers Another early rise at about 5am! Groan! We all got up early once again for sunrise which wasn't so spectacular today. But we did find a great spot for iguana and crab ...
Changing country.....
This is a top pick! ... the locals to be first bused to a ferry where we saw, pelicans and seals and then onto a bus terminal just outside the main town "Puerto Ayuora". Finally in the back of a pickup to a hotel. With our the first room you see is always the best we thought ...
Week 3 - Frisky Tortoises and Shady Sharks....
This is a top pick! Apparently winter is just round the corner here. The definition of which seems to be when the sea gets very choppy and too cold too swim in. Given my non-existent "sea-legs" we decided to go on a trip round the islands now before our classes start. Our ...
Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! Just returned from 5 days on the magical Galapagos Islands. I flew from Quito to the Islands and then transferred onto The Golondrina for a tour of the southern islands. I travelled with 12 other passengers, from 8 different countries and was lucky to ...
More Rain and Some Turtles
This is a top pick! Schedule Bachas Beach 07:30 Wet landing at beach for a walk and snorkeling from the beach. 10:00 Back on board to sail for 45 min Baltra Island 11:-- Dry landing at dock to stay on island during refueling 11:-- Back on board ...
On the equator
This is a top pick! We are not too clever at contouring - after two days acclimatising to the 2,800 metres of Quito we flew to the Galapagos Islands and took up residence on the Motor Yacht Cachalote with Gill´s bunk actually under sea level. It is a lovely boat and we ...
Galápagos - The Enchanted Islands
This is a top pick! ... kept on our toes - and literally on the marked trails - by our knowledgeable naturalist guide, Diego. A thousand kilometres west of Ecuador, the Galápagos are a very isolated group of volcanic islands on the equator in the Pacific Ocean that have a ...
Darth Vader Tortoise
This is a top pick! ... like 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 ...
Bye-Bye Galápagos
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Dance-able Bingo and other short stories
This is a top pick! The other day I was chatted up by a 16 year old boy on the beach. The conversation went like this: Him: "Hi what are you doing?" Me: "Sun bathing and going for a swim" Him: "I am going swimming too, why don't we swim together. Do you have a ...
Islands in splendid isolation, teeming with life
This is a top pick! ... sailed on for two hours or so to Puerto Ayora. Along the way, a small pod of pilot whales briefly accompanied the boat. Puerto Ayora, at the southern shore of Santa Cruz, is the largest settlement in the archipelago, with about 10,000 inhabitants. It is ...
The Land That Time Forgot Part 1
This is a top pick! ... midday. The first thing I noticed was the finches at the airport and after a couple of short rides we ended up in Puerto Aurora on Santa Cruz Island. The afternoon we spent at the Charles Darwin research centre looking at the Gigantic Tortoises from ...
The Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... to us was the true inhabited Galapagos Island. With only a handful of tourists the people here were lovely,warm and friendly. So different to Puerto Ayora in Santa Cruz which is really is just a port to serve the thousands of people who fly in one day and ...
Galápagos (Supplementary)
This is a top pick! As we sorted through our photos we couldn't resist posting a few more - with some explanatory notes (don't worry, we've still got literally hundreds in ...
Culture in the Galapagos Islands
This is a top pick! ... to the Galapagos on behalf of the city of culture for 2005. Here is his report. So one day I decided to head for Ecuador. To my amazement I found out that there was no car ferry running between here and Ringaskiddy. I decided to try my luck and ...
8 day Galapagos Cruise
This is a top pick! Like I said before, I had no plans to go the Galapagos. But after shopping around with the English possy I found an offer I could not refuse. An 8 day cruise for 700 bucks! The English guys I was traveling with paid twice ...
The Galapagos Islands!
A flight to the Galapagos, then on to the yacht which would be my home for the next 7 ...
The Amazing Galapagos Islands
... one. I can´t find the words to describe the experience there-it was THAT great! Alright...Bay (a friend from home)and I arrived on Puerto Ayora, which is on the southern coast of Santa Cruz. We were met by our guide, David, and 9 ...
Sleep, eat, adventure, eat, sleep.....
... in the Galapagos, where we were met again and transported across the island, ferried across to Santa Cruz Island, and bussed to Puerto Arroya where we hopped in rubber Zodiac boats and were shuttled out to our ship…and this was all before ...
Eight days in the Islands
********More pics to come, the uploading is slow right now. Check back later******** How can I possibly describe a place as unique and beautiful as the Galápagos Islands? I spent eight days and seven nights sailing around the islands ...
Giant Tortoise !!! South Plazas and Santa Cruz
... 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 ...
Guantanamera, juanita, Guantanamera
I arrived in the Galapagos and went straight to the main town on the Island of Santa Cruz. The town is called Puerto Ayora and the whole island has about 15,000 residents. I spent 2 days here scoping out the best deal I could find for a boat trip to ...
Galapagos Islands
Well we´re now into our final week having just got back from the Galapagos Islands which were amazing. we went snorkelling every day with sea lions and hundreds of tropical fish (and sharks!) and enjoyed walking around the islands and watching the ...
More boobies than you can poke a stick at
... the names of some of the islands we went to, just to sound impressive: my trip started and finished in the town of Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz, but we also visited Espanola, Baltra, Genovesa, Lobos, Bartolome, South Plazas, Rabida and a wonderful ...
SO AWESOME!!!
... including three extra nights on the island after my cruise and other expenses, like food. Speaking of food, if you ever go to Puerto Ayora, make sure you stop by “Kiosko de Renault” and get their bbq chicken with rice and menestre ...
Galapagos Islands
... . 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 ...
Las Montañas y Muchas Tortugas
Today we woke up early to head into the mountains with Rene to stay in his cabanas that he built on his own. We made a quick stop in town so I could sing happy birthday to my dad and sister, and so my professor could sing to her sister. The ride up to ...
Galapagos Islands
What can we say, difficult to find the words to describe this trip. Totally unique and an absolute must for anyone who has the slighest interest in seeing nature at its best. Florishing, adapting and continually amazing in its colours, shapes and ...
Diving Galapagos: Gordon Rocks
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 ...