Hostel Puerto Ayora

... by motorcycle. Jene and I leave on Oct 4th to begin our flight south. We will join our bikes in Cali Columbia where they have stayed in the capabable hands of Mike, the owner of Casa Blanca Hostel. Stay tuned for the blogs over the next few months,

... have met at an internet cafe in Montañita and again at the airport, we walked up and down the few streets of Puerto Ayora until we had found a suitable and affordable accommodation. Clouds are covering the sun (it's us and the Pacific ...

... do with being Mother's Day. Later, we return our $1 coke bottle, in exchange for a "galon" of water. Monday 9 May Puerto Ayora (Galapagos) Another early start after too much attempted sleep, another breakfast with the children, then out to walk to ...

... to Isla Santa Cruz the next day, to make sure we would be there in good time for the cruise. We arrived into Puerto Ayora in the morning and found a hostel. We wondered around and looked in some of the shops, at all the t-shirts and hats etc. I called my ...

... but as I’ve mentioned before, I tried to leave a lot of my “won’ts” back home.     Puerto Ayora was a small town and in small towns people don’t have hobbies, they just gossip. For reasons I didn’t quite ...

... quito is more expensive).I got on a cruise for $480 for 4days and 4 nights. You can arrive and organize your cruise from Puerto Ayora without stressing that the boats will all be full, and get the cheaper rates. I went through an agency called Moonrise ...

... snorkel off the shore and saw an unbelievable amount of sea life, good job we had bought a couple of underwater throw away cameras in Puerto Ayora.  We went back to the boat for a snack and prepared for a snorkelling trip to the 'The Devils Crown' an ...

... further introductions, briefings, and our first real navigation leg. Thursday we were at the island of Santa Cruz, moored at Puerto Ayora, the main settlement in the Galapagos Islands. Our morning excursion was a trip to the Charles Darwin Research ...

... us. Darwin came with us to the airport and we said our goodbyes to him, Claus, Isobel and Ed as they were heading back into Puerto Ayora for a couple more days. The rest of us slept our way back on the plane to Quito for farewells to Sally and Anna and ...

... green. As we subsequently found out, the centre of this island sits almost in permanent cloud and receives a good helping of rain, Puerto Ayora itself is normally just outside of this cloud and gets a good deal of sunshine. As we arrived in Puerto Ayora, ...

... owner, the wonderful Esther. After dumping our bags, she set us up with a good place to eat and, if we had time, directions in Puerto Ayora’s most beautiful hike, Las Grietas. Who were we to argue? Off we went down in the heart of Puerto Ayora. It ...

... 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 ...

... autobús equivocado en Baltra (somos muy listos, hay dos autobuses y cogemos el que no es), llegamos a Puerto Ayora con un calor considerable. Empieza la operación "Hostel barato", y lo encontramos rápido. También es posible viajar a este paraíso por ...

... types of birds and the rather large and bright red Sally Light Foot crabs. On arrival in Puerto Ayora we started a rather long a difficult search for a hostel.. Don´t think that many of the services on the Galapagos Islands are intended for a ...

... shallow water. We had dinner and then sailed for about 3 hours to Santa Cruz Island and anchored in the port of Puerto Ayora. Puerto Ayora is the busiest and most touristy port in the Galapagos - cruises normally leave from here (the airport is currently ...

... bus to the ferry which would take us to Santa Cruz island, upon where we caught another bus to take us the 40 minutes to Puerto Ayora town. This was all fairly easy since the buses are waiting for the planes to arrive and all the passengers are going to ...

... /beach/street and ten minutes walk from the “Charles Darwin Research Centre” – home of “Lonesome George”. Puerto Ayora is the main town on Santa Cruz and is also home to the largest concentration of people in the archipelago. ...

Hola! I have been living on the Galapagos Islands for the last week. I am living in a homestay in the town of Puerto Ayora on Isla Santa Cruz. Life here is very laid back ... I am volunteering at a local school and sharing a house with Senora Aureola, her ...

... boat (the highest rating).  The prices on the mainland were centered at about $1250USD for the same cruise.  I arrived in Puerto Ayora at about noon local time and had selected and paid for my cruise by about 4PM the same day.  Embarkation ...

... a 10 second ferry ride to the island of Santa Cruz, from there we take a 45 min bus to our destination "city" of Puerto Ayora. This is typical logistics in the Galapagos, very little infrastructure means long transit times. But this is as it should be, ...