This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 On our second day in the Sacred Valley, it was time to do a little climbing. In some respects, it was a dry run for our trip to Machu Picchu on Thursday. Deb decided to take the day off to save her…
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Today it was time to move to the mountains to start visiting the many archeological sites there (there are over 19,000 archeological sites in Peru!). After leaving our hotel at 5:45 am and dodging the police who were trying to enforce the President’s one day lockdown over a protest against the rising fuel prices, we…
View MoreThis is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Yesterday was a very long travel day — we left the ship at 10:45 am and got to our hotel in Lima at 11:30 pm (planes, trains, and automobiles…). But we were thrilled to not have to lose a day due to…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today is our last full day in the Galapagos, and we spent it on Santa Cruz Island, the second largest of the islands and the most populous (12,000 of the Galápagos Islands’ 20,000 people live there). It was a real culture shock…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today, we went to South Plaza, one of two islands that broke away from the large island of Santa Cruz. Both the islands were formed by geological uplift and tilt to the north, with cliffs on their southern coasts. We even…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Today we were on the island of Isabela. It is the largest island in the Galapagos and the most recently active (the last eruption was in 2015). It’s actually shaped like a seahorse and is really the amalgamation of five coalesced volcanos. …
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Floreana Island, a middle-aged island at just over 2 million years of age. This island was the first capital of the Galapagos. The reason we were there was to hike to a small brackish lagoon where we found over 100…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 Greetings from Española, the southernmost and one of the oldest of the Galápagos Islands. As appears to be the daily program, there are generally three activities during the day, in two different locations. Today we made two stops: Gardner Bay, a nearly…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 On our way to the Galapagos! We’ve wanted to do this trip for a number of reasons. Of course, to walk in the footsteps of Darwin and to appreciate the thought processes he had as he explored the islands and captured his…
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This is part of a series called Galápagos Islands and Macchu Picchu 2022 After COVID delays in 2020 and 2021, we finally left on our trip to Ecuador and Peru, notably to visit the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. Given that we were already wintering in Puerto Vallarta, we flew to our first stop in…
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