After a great buffet breakfast on the ship we get sized for snorkeling gear and wet suits. Nothing is left to the imagination in a wet suit (you’ll note no pictures!). We tour part of Isabela Island by panga, then get ready to snorkel. I haven’t snorkeled since 1991 in Hawaii and it wasn’t that…
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What started as a conversation over a glass of wine is finally coming to fruition – we fly to the Galapagos island of ‘Isla Baltra’ to start our cruise of the archipelago. It’s a short flight as the islands are just about 1000 km from the Ecuadorian coast. Our vessel is ‘La Pinta’, registered in…
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Transit day today and we’re off to the next leg of our holiday, Galapagos, where we’ll hook up with another two couples. Dale and Abbi Rabaneck are flying in from Atlanta, Drew and Traci from Pittsburgh. It’s another early departure from our hotel Atemporal in Miraflores to the airport. Samuel, our same greeter, picks us…
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Two blocks from our hotel is the pre-Incan site of ‘Huaca Pucllana’, founded by what is known as the ‘Lima Culture’. We headed down in the morning for a tour and quickly realize how fortunate we have been with private guides rather than the big group tours. Originally a complex of multiple pyramids, much of…
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