The Galapagos of Equador

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March 13th 2010

Published: March 23rd 2010

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Animaux des Galapagos

Bbabette

Big turtle about 130 years old

Oui elles sont grosses...

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Les iles galapagos se trouvent a 2h de l’equateur en avion. C’etait une semaine nature a 100% ou l’on pouvait voir les animaux sauvages. L’acces n’est pas donne : 100$ pour l’entree du parc national plus le vol. Mais au final l’avantage c’est que cela reste relativement preserve du tourime de masse. Nous avons visite les principales iles comme l’ile de Santa Cruz et Isabela, ainsi que Floreana en un jour. La facon la plus simple (mais la plus chere aussi) est e visiter les iles en faisant une croisiere. Ceci permet de visiter les iles les plus lointaines et les plus sauvages et donc de voir d’avantage d’animaux. Mais meme en restant sur les iles les plus peuplees on peut voir de nombreux animaux : iguanes, tortues, lions de mer sur terre et dans l’eau, crabes, requins (qui ne mangent pas l’homme, ouf)… et une nature epoustouflante.
On est parti avec Bruno et Berengere, 2 francais que l’on a rencontre a Quito avant d’aller sur les iles. En tout cas c'etait une semaine terrible.

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After

With Bruno and Berengere On Isabella

Enjoying Coconuts with Alcohol Notre bar prefere La casa rosada sur l'ile isabela. Coco avec un rhum bresilien terrible...

Cuba we headed to equador. This took two days having to first of all fly back to mexico and then spend a day flying to equador. When we arrived in Quito, Equadors capital we went straight to the Secret Garden a nice hostel in the old town. The altitude of quito got to us and we spent the next two days in quito doing, well, not an awful lot. But we did manage to arrange a trip to the Galapagos Islands about 1000km off the coast of Equador. We joined forces with Bruno and Berengere a french couple we met in Quito and the four of us headed off to Galapagos together.

The galapagos islands are volcanic islands formed by volcanic eruptions. All life got here on the wind in the water or on floating pieces of wood and as a result the life on the galapagos is different from everywhere else. Its famous for its Iguanas, huge turtles, birds sea lions and sharks. And once there you get to see all these animals up close and personal.

Nobody lived here until 1807 when Galapagos received its first resident. Irishman Patrick Watkins arrived on the island of Floreana

Sunset on Isabella

Coucher de soleil a cote de la casa rosada

marooned at sea. For two years he lived from growing vegetables, sometimes trading them with passing whaling ships for rum. Apparently he spent the two years he was here drunk.

We spent the first two days on Santa Cruz island then the next four on Isabella before returning to Santa Cruz for the final two days. The time was spent discovering the wild life. We also trecked around one of the largest volcano craters in the world. I spent paddys day on Iseballa where we found a really relaxed bar on the beach. There werent many people on the island and all the touists got to know each other in this bar. I spent paddys day here where the bar owner played me a rendition of danny boy.

Galapagos is all about the wildlife and everywhere you went you could see the turtles or swim with the sealions, rays and the (non dangerous) sharks. One of my many highlights was diving where i saw a school of hamerhead sharks. There must have been 40 of them togther.

And with all the wildlife we spent a great week with Bruno and Berenger from france. Cheers for the good