Casa del Lago
Travel Blogs from Puerto Ayora
Glamping in the Galapagos
... for the next seven days. It feels very similar to being in the bush in South Africa but luckily no dangerous animals to scare me during the night.
Tomorrow morning we have an early start (our only one luckily) and are off on a boat trip for the day! Snorkeling is on the agenda but I'm not the only one who is too scared to get into the water. I'm really going to try and force myself though, even if only for a short while. Everyone says it's an absolute ...
Arrived in the Galapagos!
... very rare and precious here), and a few other kinds of birds of which I cannot remember the names. I really could not get myself too excited about all this and I did not even bother to take out the Canon camera – just used my little Sony NEX5n, good enough ….
Ah, on the way back in the zodiac, we saw 2 pairs of mating turtles in the water! Apparently this is the mating season – all the animals here were supposed to be mating. It was hard ...
Galapagos by Land
... Maybe there was too much pressure to get it on with his female cohabiters? Perhaps he was gay? Just throwing that one out there for fun. Wouldn't that have been AWESOME? Maybe it's as simple as a species coming and going, like they have always done since the "Intelligent Designer" drew up the floor plan and built the Galapagos Islands for Charles ...
Boobies, birds, hotel, what more do I need?
... to enjoy the really impressive view of our being, but for some reason Ben got attacked by this fly that bit him hard. We all jumped in the water and headed back to our beloved Santa Cruz, only after a couple of Titanic photos on the starboard of our boat.
"And iiiiiiiiiyeeiiii will always love youuuuhoohoo"
When we returned it was time for us to move into our Hotel. Yes you heard me. Me in a hotel, in the Galapagos. Part of our deal ...
Breaking financial records in the GALAPAGOS!
... the term.
we managed, listen carefully,well actually, read carefully, for the price of $320 per person to get for every day of our stay a day tour to all the important islands, Isabella, San Cristobal, Seymour, Floreana and a day tour in our home base Santa Cruz, food, snorkeling equipment, transportation and a hotel for the 5 of us for 4 nights. An INCRE-IBLE (As one would say in Spanish) deal. The vendor Santiago who was a gentleman admitted he has ...
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