Galapagos Islands Travel Guide
We just did a tour of the beautiful South American country of Ecuador, of which his most important tourist attraction are the famous Galapagos Islands, home to the magnificent giant tortoises. Here we told you everything you need to know to plan your trip.
For those who want to learn about the Galapagos Island, a distance of 1000 kilometers of Ecuador, can start their flight from both Quito and Guayaquil. It’s a turtle nature reserve declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1984.
Galapagos consists of 15 islands and has two airports: they are San Cristobal and Baltra. The latter is located in the Santa Cruz Island where you will find most of the hotels are located within the tourist area known as Puerto Ayora.
Galapagos Islands make up the National Park of Ecuador and foreigners who visit it must pay a tax of $ 100 plus a right to transit fee of $ 10 extra. The basic itineraries for exploring the islands are of two days, the most advisable for four nights.
The more traditional tours are those of the lava volcanoes, visiting the Charles Darwin Station where they conduct studies and work in defense of the species that inhabit the islands, and Turtle Bay which is named for the presence of range of these turtles sea turtle products.
Other excursions are the recommended: Garrapatero beach, Isla Bartolomé and Bay Tour is a tour of several islands that are made by small boats or yachts.
Destination Ecuador
The fate Ecuador is renowned for its Galapagos islands. But Ecuador also has other attractions that can not go unmentioned: the “Avenue of Volcanoes” in the area of Andes and mountains, magnificent beaches and lush Amazon region with its lodges and Yasuni National Park and Reserve as Cuyabeno Wildlife.
Those who want to know Ecuador can not miss since Quito is the country’s gateway and starting point to begin any circuit inside. The best way to meet the nation’s capital is through a city tour through the old town. We can also use the route for a visit to the Monument of half the world “opened in 1978. For it passes the equatorial plane that divides the earth into two hemispheres: North and South.
Another circuit we can start from Quito is the so-called “Avenue of the Volcanoes” with a minimum of two days, staying overnight in the town of Riobamba. The tour that starts from the capital of Ecuador runs the towns of Cotopaxi, Riobamba and Cuenca and has two peculiarities. The first, a route visiting active volcanoes. The second is that between the cities of Riobamba and Cuenca’s visit is part of a leg crossing the train called “Devil’s Nose.” It is recommended to return to Quito by air.