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Taksigelse

ECUADOR | Tue, 6 Dec 2016 | By tinast | Views [614]

I forrige uge holdt amerikanerne deres årlige taksigelsesfest.  Jeg var så heldig at være sammen med syv af slagsen, som er skeptiske over for den gængse fejring af dagen og derfor valgte at rejse væk og sige tak for ... Read more >

Tags: galapagos, jatun sacha, taknemmelighed

Havet er skønt

ECUADOR | Sun, 20 Nov 2016 | By tinast | Views [631]

Jeg  har opdaget, at jeg godt bare vil bo nede under vandet. Sidste uge snorklede jeg for første gang og nåede to fabelagtige ture. Første tur var ved la Loberia-stranden. Den ser ikke ud af noget særligt fra land, ... Read more >

Tags: galapagos, havskildpadder, kicker rock, leon dormido, snorkling, søløver

En drøm går i opfyldelse

ECUADOR | Mon, 31 Oct 2016 | By tinast | Views [774]

Jeg kan næsten ikke fatte, at jeg faktisk er her. Min krop har været så stresset de sidste par uger i Quito af jetlag, smog, spansklektioner og af at overanstrenge  sig for at forstå og blive forstået. Mit energiniveau ... Read more >

Tags: frivillig, galapagos, invasive arter, skildpadder

Jeg har en plan

DENMARK | Mon, 10 Oct 2016 | By tinast | Views [633]

Hej alle Så er der ikke lang tid til jeg sætter kursen mod fjerne kyster. På søndag letter flyveren fra Københavns lufthavn med mig om bord på vej til Quito i Ecuador. Jeg har skrevet en lang rejsebeskrivelse ... Read more >

Tags: ecuador, galapagos, lama, quito, rejseplan, sydamerika

Ecuador and The Galapagos Islands

ECUADOR | Mon, 30 Sep 2013 | By coggos | Views [2151]

Ecuador   Finally, we arrive in Ecuador. Our last week has been spent trying to get out of Colombia and across the border. It hasn't been easy, with the farmer's protests in full swing, the roads out of the country have been blocked and ... Read more >

Tags: amazon, banos, coatapaxi, galapagos, islands, otavalo, quito

Travel in South America

USA | Fri, 12 Oct 2012 | By dinashtull | Views [758]

After a month of volunteer teaching in Peru, I took two weeks to travel in South America.  It wasn't easy to decide where to spend this precious time, but I decided on the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  I was just ... Read more >

Tags: buenos aires, galapagos

Wonders of Ecuador

ECUADOR | Sat, 1 Sep 2012 | By pmok | Views [5993]

How much fun can be packed in three weeks in Ecuador?  Enough to experience volcanoes and islands, urban and rural, ocean and mountain, and chills and warmth.  Yet there still isn't enough time for the Amazon!  What an amazing country it is. I traveled ... Read more >

Tags: boobies, cuenca, ecuador, galapagos, iguana, lonesome george, otavalo, papallacta, sea lion, white water rafting

The Poor Man's Galapagos

ECUADOR | Thu, 2 Aug 2012 | By pmok | Views [1444]

I've been eager to visit Isla de la Plata since arriving in Puerto Lopez.  I first learned about the island from Marine Megafauna Foundation, the org I worked with in Mozambique; they've been traveling there to tag and study the manta ray population ... Read more >

Tags: galapagos, isla de la plata, mora mora, scuba dive, sun fish, turtle capture

The Best Six Days of Our Lives: The Galapagos Islands

ECUADOR | Sun, 14 Aug 2011 | By elis82 | Views [3029]

Galapagos Islands - famed for Darwin, fauna, huge volcanoes and a history of pirates, whalers and convicts. All of our lives, we’ve been intrigued to see the islands about 1000km off the coast of Ecuador, to see what it was that inspired Darwin. In ... Read more >

Tags: ecuador, galapagos, wildlife

Photos: Galapagos Islands

ECUADOR | Sun, 7 Aug 2011 | By elis82 | Photo Gallery

Tags: ecuador, galapagos

The Galapagos islands...The Cruise

ECUADOR | Wed, 27 Apr 2011 | By moomazza | Views [2777] | Comments [2]

Welcome to Ecuador!! Arriving in Quito it was way too cold to stay for any length of time! So, we headed straight to the Galapagos islands!  We booked flights for the following day at 9.15am which was fantastic! I had been so cold for about 2 weeks ... Read more >

Tags: galagagps cruise, galapagos, galapagos islands, isabella, millenium cruise, quito, santa cruz

Galapagos Islands, Otovalo market and Volcan Cotopaxi, a family holiday

ECUADOR | Tue, 1 Jun 2010 | By thefuegoproject | Views [3289]

On one hand a journey like this seems an endless holiday. On the other hand, the cycling makes for hard work and a long time without seeing family or friends. So, in a way, we have just had a holiday inside a holiday, visiting Ecuador a second time, ... Read more >

Tags: family holiday, galapagos, wildlife

Shark's Snack

ECUADOR | Thu, 25 Feb 2010 | By true-claims-stories | Views [2010]

I was in Tortuga Bay in the Galapagos Islands. While out surfing, I was bitten by a shark. I was able to walk to the nearby medical center where I got ten stitches to close the wound and a course of antibiotics. How WN Helped They paid for the treatment ... Read more >

Tags: bite, galapagos, shark, stitches

Look into my eyes, my eyes, not around the eyes...

ECUADOR | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 | By iainjosim | Views [1184] | Comments [1]

We’re still coming down off the Galapagos high. We’d been looking forward to it for most of the trip, and our 8-day tour really lived up to our expectations, especially because we were joined by our UK friends, Jen and John, who we have been travelling ... Read more >

Tags: bartolome, fernandina, galapagos, genovesa, isabella, rabida, santa cruz