Our first full day in the Galapagos Islands commenced with a walk across an expanse of hardened lava ~115 years old on Santiago Island’s eastern shore. Although it’s hard to imagine, this is how the islands started in this archipelago.…
Category: Ecuador
Destination: Galapagos Islands
We left Quito early in the morning and headed for the airport. Several hours later we landed in the Galapagos Islands on Baltra Island, which I found out later used to be a US Military Base. Who knew? Although I…
Lagoons & Lookouts
Early the next morning we headed back to the same lagoon we had visited in darkness. It was pretty neat to see the lagoon in the light of day. Birds were singing and flying around everywhere. The Hoatzin, pictured below,…
The Jungle
We arrived in the evening and drank icy cold beers while listening to the nightly chorus of animals. We assembled early the next morning for bird watching. As an added bonus spider monkeys dropped from the trees to feast on bunches of…
From Andes to the Amazon
I just got back from a fantastic trip to Ecuador. We spent two weeks touring Quito, the Amazon and the Galapagos Islands with Overseas Adventure Travel. Our first full day was spent sightseeing in Quito. We went to a lookout…