After the Galapagos, we headed down to Ecuador’s third largest city and expat central, Cuenca. We took advantage of this and ate a delicious burger for lunch. Since we arrived on Sunday, we prepared most of our sightseeing activities for…
Saying Goodbye to the Galapagos
On our last day in the islands, it took us an hour to tear ourselves away from the beach at Puerto Egas and move on to the trail that our visit was intended to cover. Baby sea lions just begged…
Fernandina Island and Tagus Cove, Galapagos
Our favourite part of the day was very peaceful – sitting in a beautiful cove watching life unfold before our eyes. Sea lions biting and playing with the tails of the marine iguanas, blue footed boobies diving for fish in…
Isabella Island, Galapagos
Hola Iguana! We could have said that about 500 times since we saw that many of them. The females are in nesting mode and in no to mood to be disturbed. They dig holes with their back feet to hide…
Sombrero Chino and Whale Bay, Galapagos
Have you ever been on a Chinese Hat? We have! Despite existing for about a million years, there still aren’t many plants to speak of outside the lava cactus and small grass on Santiago. Quite morbidly, we watched a Galapagos…
Santiago and Bartolome, Galapagos
While on our first day we felt like we were in an animal sanctuary, our second day felt like we were on the moon. We were on the “new” part of Santiago Island which is only 150 years old. Black…
Genovesa Island, Galapagos
The first island we visited was Genovesa, one of the Northern islands created from a sunken volcanic crater. With a cruising time of 8 hours to and from the main group of islands, we were very lucky to visit as…
We’re in the Galapagos!
The Galapagos is one of our bucket list items, but we weren’t sure if we could cross this one off on our trip since it’s not exactly in the backpacker budget. However, we were so close and budgets are meant…
Cotopaxi
After Otavalo, we had a short stopover in Quito (and lovely much-needed stay at the Sheraton), then headed out to the foot of the Cotopaxi volcano with our friends Brandon and Corinne in a beautiful rural area. Our suite had…