Blogs from Galápagos, Ecuador, South America - page 92

Nothing reminds me of the Galapagos like the sounds of reggaeton. Of course, now that I am in Fiji we don't get much of it. As you can tell, I have once again gotten to far behind in my blog. The main problem now is that I feel I won't do justice to what a great experience I had at Jatun Sacha. So bearing that in mind, here's what I've got. It was far better than my clumsy prose are able to express. So where to begin? Well, in the last few days at JS I started to notice all the little systems and routines that I had developed for living in these difficult conditions. The first and most important routine was the shower routine. Everyday we would get incredibly sweaty, filthy and just all around ... read more

I managed to grow very fond of Cuenca in my week or so of study and shoulder recuperation. Nevertheless, with a slight boost to the Bertie lingual capacity and a reasonably intact pair of shoulders I was packed and ready, yet rather sad, to leave. After the usual bland bread, jam and hot chocolate hostel breakfast, the manager gave me a note from an unknown traveller, who had heard of my travel plans from the spanish school. A phonecall later, and I thankfully had travel partners for the Galapagos: Mark and Cas from Brighton, Blighty. Together we bussed to sweaty, brash Guayaquil for the night, and flew the next day. I hadn't known a great deal about the islands, other than the costliness, and from traveller reports that if I was to have high expectations, I ... read more

Galapagos is a magical place. It's one of those places about which you hear so much, and think - it can't be true. It can't really exist in reality. But it does. No doubt it is one of the highlights of my (so far) 8-month trip to South America. Only here you can get to those animals as close as you want. And there are so many of them, and of so many types! And non of them is afraid. The feeling is incredible. Just walking around in an animal paradise and seeing different animals every few steps. The abundance of the animals can't really be described. The best example for it might be Puerto Baquerizo Moreno which is a town in Isla San Cristobal - one of the inhabited islands of the Galapagos archipelago. There ... read more

So we have been here for about a week and a half. Its an amazing place... The first day we arrived with two other volunteers and rode to camp in the back of a pick-up, the local taxi´s are all 4 door white pick-up trucks, some with 4wd but mostly not. The other volunteers we came in with are a Spanish guy named Pablo, who we´ll definitely meet up with in Barcelona and a girl just out of high school from Minnesota, Katie. We got to camp and its definitely in the jungle, its an old farm, and we´re actually staying in the original house. Although we´re sometimes concerned with the mold in the wood, its a solid 2 story building with plenty of hammocks and several rooms upstairs and down. We actually have our own ... read more

Sorry its been so long since my last entry, if you check I finally uploaded some more photos. The internet is always unreliable and travelblog was down for a while. After a few adventures we have made it to the Galapagos and started our volunteering. We get to come to town on the weekends and can use internet. The reserve we are working on is great and all the other volunteers are super nice. I will definitley elaborate more on that later. But for now I wanted to give you a quick recount of the rest of our time in argentina and show some more photos. So after Iguazu we spent 2 days 3 nights in El Calafate in Patagonia. Our frist whole day there we took a tour into the national park and saw the ... read more