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Galapagos – Isla San Cristóbal (video only)

May 25, 2018

On Isla San Cristóbal, we had an early morning snorkeling at Kicker Rock at 6am which was the perfect goodbye to the Galapagos. We had multiple sightings of hammerhead sharks – most impressive (and slightly scary) one that dove up towards us. There were lots of grey reef sharks forming a big circle, we counted […]

Galapagos – Isla Española

Isla Española was another excellent island for birds and sea lions. During our morning walk we got very close to sea lion colonies with their babies playing in the shallows, saw rocks covered with sea iguanas and watched the beautiful waved albatross, arriving to the island to start their breeding season. In the afternoon, we […]

Galapagos – Isla Floreana

May 24, 2018

After two calmer days, we were back to five activities a day on Isla Floreana, with two land trips and three snorkeling opportunities. At Post Office Bay, we could leave postcards behind for some other travelers to pick them up and hand deliver to their receivers (we shall see how long that takes for Constanta). […]

Galapagos – Isla Daphne, Isla Santa Fé & Isla Santa Cruz

May 23, 2018

Isla Daphne was a dinghy ride to the mangrove forest to spot sea turtles and golden rays, followed by a visit to Isla Santa Féto look for land iguana. And some of Darwin’s finches. In the evening, we arrived on Isla Santa Cruzand could go for drinks to the town. The island was all about […]

Data privacy, oh no…yet one more email

May 22, 2018

Data privacy & opting-out At some stage in the past, you chose to opt-in to receiving my newsletter (thank you!) I hope you enjoyed the pictures I shared with you 🙂 As part of the General Data Protection Regulation new rules that come in to effect this 25 May, I need to advise you of […]

Galapagos – Isla Bartolomé

Isla Bartolomé had the best viewpoint and a very interesting hike through black lava fields. Also, the superb snorkeling at Pinnacle Rock. We saw eagle rays, whitetip reef sharks, tiny Galapagos penguins and sea lions. On our afternoon sailing to the next island, a big pot of bottlenose dolphins swam with out boat.

Galapagos – Isla Genovesa

May 20, 2018

Galapagos, May 6-13 We had very high expectations for Galapagos with everyone having been there before raving about it. And it did not disappoint! We chose an eight day cruise on yacht Eden, where we would get to a different island every day. The boat was nice enough, although the cabins were rather small (our […]

Quito, Cotopaxi & Otovalo

May 16, 2018

Ecuador, April 30-May 17 We very much liked Quito, Ecuador’s capital. Arriving from Cuba, it offered all the luxury: access to money, fully stocked supermarkets, mobile data, clean roads 😊And a laundry next to our hotel that took care about our 15kg of dirty clothes, a few more days and we’d have had to walk […]

Bella Vista Cloud Forest

May 15, 2018

Ecuador, April 30-May 17 We spent a few days in the very relaxing Bella Vista Cloud Forest Lodge, with its beautiful rainforest, abundance of birds and great view of the cloud covered hills. Early morning was birdwatching, morning naturalist guided hikes through the forest and afternoon reading in our little bamboo hut, as it was […]

Trinidad

May 9, 2018

Cuba, April 20-30 Ten days in Cuba, to see the main highlights Sabine remembered from her trip 17 or so years ago. Havana, with its old American cars and some of the grandest palaces sugar money could buy that are now slowly turning into rubble, Viñales with its craggy mogotes (limestone monoliths), rusted red tobacco […]