In the early hours the boat set sail south, taking us back to the east side of Isla Santa Cruz towards the small offshore Islas Plaza. We woke and got up to find ourselves in the narrow straight between the North Plaza and South Plaza islands. Here the main attractions were the colourful shrubs, swallow […]
Day 56 : Galãpagos (Isla Santiago, Isla Bartolomé)
Again breakfast was at 7am and we headed out in the dinghies around 8am. The first island visit would take us to the volcanic lava flows of Isla Santiago but before this we skirted around Isla Bartolomé looking for signs of the Galãpagos penguin. We were lucky and saw a few individuals, one still moulting […]
Day 55 : Galãpagos (Cerro Dragón on Isla Santa Cruz, Isla Rãbida)
The view to Isla Santa Cruz Exploring the boat: the sun loungers Breakfast was at 7am and I was up before this having a good look around the boat and checking out the view. The nights travel had bought us around Isla Santa Cruz so we were now moored off the north western coast of […]
Day 54 : Quito to the Galãpagos (Isla Baltra, Isla Santa Cruz)
Breakfast was eaten very early as we were leaving for the airport at 6:30am. We all assembled in the hotel reception along with another GAP group also heading out to the Galápagos. In our two vans we drove off and went through the process of having our bags checked, check in and then security. There […]
In between
We head out to the Galãpagos Islands today and won’t have any email or Internet access. Expect an update in a week or so, bye for now.
Part V : Day 53 : San Jose to Quito
The trip to Quito went very smoothly and thankfully we saw no sign of trouble either at the airport or the city of Quito. We got a taxi to the San Jose airport and checked in. Proceeding through the security checks we found ourselves with a few shops to check out in the time we […]
Day 52 : Punta Uva to San Jose
At 7am we were at the Pachamama gate with our bags waiting for the San Jose bus to come past. We’d had a lovely breakfast (as usual) a little bit earlier than normal and had said goodbye to Bill and Cathy. It has been a very relaxing and peaceful week in this corner of Costa […]
Day 51 : Punta Uva
Keryn and the veranda of our house at Pachamama Looking back at the house from the garden/jungle Having eaten we decided to make use of the Pachamama kayaks this morning and we set out down the stream adjacent to the property just after 8am. Heading upstream was easy with there being no discernable current in […]
Day 50 : Punta Uva
We got given no breakfast this morning so we ate what we had and then borrowed bikes to cycle down to a cafe where we could eat something and also use the Internet. This ended up taking most of the morning but the blog is now up to date and we got to sort out […]
Day 49 : Punta Uva
Breakfast was provided at 6:30am so we could be on the road just before 7am waiting for the bus to Manzanillo for our walk in the Refugio Grandoca-Manzanillo. We arrived around 7:15am and sat down where the bus dropped us off waiting for Omar, our guide. A woman approached us and told us that she […]
Day 48 : Punta Uva
After breakfast was eaten we had the pleasure of upgrading to the house accommodation, a one bedroom cottage with much more space than our bungalow, and a kitchen to boot. Once moved in we again borrowed some bikes and started riding to Puerto Viejo, nine kilometres down the road. Cycling the jungle track It was […]
Day 47 : Punta Uva
We planned to relax on this part of our trip and today was a case in point. Breakfast was bought to our room around 8am and afterwards we headed out to explore. We walked down to the beach we had visited the night before and walked along by the incoming waves following the curve of […]