When we surfaced the next day we were alongside the island of Espanola. This is considered to be the oldest of the Galapagos Islands and supposedly now in decline, effectively dying as it drifts further and further away from the heart of the archipelago over the course of millions of years. We won’t be throwing […]
We’d latched on a snorkelling trip in advance of the tour to San Cristobal which required us to be at Joybe Tours for 6am so after a hastily scrammed bowl of granola and some last minute arrangements we set out with Marleen (who was going with us) and Dennis (who was off diving early anyway). […]
With a boat back to Puerto Ayora booked for 2:30 we had enough time for a tour of Las Tintoreras that morning. This is a small island group off the southern coast of Isabela – almost more like a small collection of rocks really – that’s teaming with wildlife including a water channel filled with […]
An early start the next day saw us on our way to the Charles Darwin Research centre for feeding time with their resident tortoises. Having visited the reserve in the north of the island the day before the research centre proved a disappointment for all the reasons that are probably good for its residents; you’re […]
An easy checkout, easy transfer, easy flight and easy transfer later we were in the Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa Cruz by mid-afternoon the next day. We checked into a four bed dorm at Best Homestay which was reasonably priced and had come recommended by a Canadian couple we’d crossed paths with in […]
We had breakfast once again served to us but this time early as we had bus to catch that would take us out of Peru and into Ecuador. Peru had been good to us and is a far more diverse and interesting country than I knew it to be before arriving. I suppose the same […]
I slept quite well for semi-cama owing in no small part to having scored the front 2 upstairs seats allowing us to prop our legs up better than the average passenger. We arrived a lot later than we expected to but immediately reserved our onward travel to Ecuador on Saturday morning to get that out […]
I slept well and we arrived in Trujillo mid-morning. We caught a quick taxi to our hostel where the owner greeted us warmly and checked us straight in before inviting us to take breakfast regardless of the fact that we were only staying for one night. We got showered and then set straight out to […]
We arrived around midday and got a taxi over to the hostel where we were able to check in straight away. We got cleaned up and set off out to explore the nearby area of Miraflores. Somewhat shocked to see that somebody had chosen to steal Lima’s sky (it was bleach white) we put that […]
A comparatively late start saw us enjoy our breakfast before a mad fuss to sort payment over PayPal thanks to the town’s ATM’s still all being out. We made our train check-in and met Ayse, a lass from Turkey who was in Peru on business but had squeezed in a trip to Machu Picchu while […]