GAIAS

San Cristobal

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June 12th 2006
Today we got on our flight to the Galapagos. We met our prof for our Galapagos section at the airport in Quito. He flew with us. We stopped in Guayaquil a coastal city in Ecuador but we didn’t have to get off the plane. While we were stopped, one of the girls from our group had a seizure on the plane. She was taken off and to a hospital and our prof went with her. We arrived at the airport in Sa ... read more

South America » Ecuador » Galápagos

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The "Republic of the Equator" was one of three countries that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830 (the others are Colombia and Venezuela). Between 1904 and 1942, Ecuador lost territories in a series of conflicts with its neighbors. A b... ... read more