Santa Cruz Island Ninety-Seven percent of the Galapagos Islands are part of the national park system and a certified naturalist tour guide (park Ranger)} must be with you to explore and at specific times granted for your party to be at any designated park area. READ MORE...
23 March, 2023
Getting There To reach Galapagos you need to fly from Guayaquil or Quito, Ecuador. on LATAM or Avianca airlines. Flights may soon start on Copa Airlines including one from Manta. At the airport, you will purchase tourist cards for each person in your party at READ MORE...
08 March, 2023
A long Trip Our flight from Lisbon to Madrid was significantly delayed and we missed our flight to Quito. As a result, we also lost our balcony hotel where we were going to watch the New Year’s Eve Fireworks in Quito. In fact, the next READ MORE...
22 February, 2023
On this tour we went many of the same places we saw on the catamaran trip with caves and the cliffs. What a difference it makes seeing the sites from the opposite perspective. First stop, the Porch Pottery which actually gets their fired pottery from READ MORE...
18 December, 2022
Our next destination was Porto for Bill’s Birthday on November 20. Porto is the birthplace of port wine and only wine made in this region can be sold as port. The wine is made in the Douro Valley and historically transferred by boat on the READ MORE...
17 December, 2022
The first trip we went on after settling down in Portimao was to the Algarve Coast and Caves. The trip that we arranged was on a small hard bottom boat, Bill was sick that day and the trip had to be rescheduled. The next week READ MORE...
06 December, 2022
