We have just arrived back in Quito after 5 incredible days on board the Lobo de Mar 3 (sea lion) cruising around the Galapagos Islands. First day off the boat we saw giant tortoises at the Charles Darwin Research Centre - unfortunately we didn´t get get to see them in the wild but at the centre we got to go right up to them in their enclosures - it was out of this world. After the first day we pretty much went snokelling and walking on each of the islands everyday and everytime we saw something new. The highlights were swimming with white tipped reef sharks, penguins, sea lions, sting rays and eagle rays and huge turtles. On land, we saw land and marine iguanas (some of them were huge), sealions and their young, flamingoes, blue
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