Galapagos Traveler Stories

Never a dull moment in the Galapagos, when I wasn't having my picture taken with a giant tortoise or sea lion, I was snorkeling, kayaking, hiking, biking or horseback riding through the remarkable landscape. I also got to get up close and personal with my different kinds of birds! An excellent Galapagos adventure!

An account of the adventures and epiphanies of a diverse group of travelers in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

What a trip! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves - there's probably no need for descriptions, but I'll give it a shot. Can't wait to go back to see some of the other islands that we weren't able to visit this time.

Read all about Courtney and her husband's Galapagos honeymoon tour in her own curated blog with photos.

Galapagos: a playground for artists, photographers and people who just love wildlife! (Like me!) Explore with me...See the paintings I create inspired by this unique environment...Get good travel tips for the islands!

This is the second trip of members of the Sun City Anthem Hiking Club to Galapagos and Machu Picchu with Adventure Life and SASTravelPeru. The first trip was in March of 2006. This trip was again organized by me to see what I experienced as a volunteer

3 Days touring around Quito followed by 7 days of a land-based Galapagos tour with Adventure Life. Naturalist Cezar Salazar was superb. We lived on land on three different islands in comfortable accomodations and freindly neighbors. During the day, we took day trips on land and water, with snorkeling every day. Land based activities including …

We mixed a few days exploring the city of Quito with some hiking in the mountains outside the city, and finished up with a 5-day Galapagos cruise.

Another chapter in what I like to call the Adventures of Fodder and Son. My 9 year-old boy and I are traveling to the Galapagos Islands to swim with the fishes in a non-mafia hit kind of way.

By paddling, hiking and biking you get close to so many unusual birds and reptiles. I felt like we were in the Center of the Earth. I thought that it is impossible for birds to have blue feet- but here they are, living next to penguins on the equator.

Neither the best coffee-table book nor video documentary begins to capture the Galapagos. Only walking (and biking) the ground, paddling the shore and snorkling the waters can give a sense of the beauty and fragility of this one-of-a-kind place

Kathleen and Jacqueline’s Excellent Adventure...All Things Ecuador...El Medio del Mundo...How do I title a 3 in 1 trip that was so much more than either of us expected?

“I thought you might enjoy the enclosed log of our recent trip. Fabulous trip, just wish we had done it while we were younger. … This was our third trip to South America and clearly the best. … Even though I’m very pleased with the pictures, they just don’t do justice.”

— Lana R. Batts,
May 7–21, 2001

Adventure Life travelers, Dave and Val LaHart, share a travel tale about their experiences during our Wildlife Odyssey trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon and Galapagos Islands.

In summary: best 6 days of my entire life was in the Galapagos.

Once in a lifetime sisters trip, a cruise through the amazing and magical islands of the Galapagos.

Ashley and Cody experienced the wonderful hospitality of the quaint Haciendas of Ecuador on their trip. Then the were off to visit the Galapagos and take in the extraordinary wildlife of the islands aboard the ELF.

In summary, this was a month well spent. We cannot praise highly enough Adventure life for their assistance in putting all this together.

A Galápagos trip with my amiga mejor Davis, her family and friends, everyone with a Lexington, KY connection, this was a trip that we will not soon forget.

selection of photos from Feb 2012 -my fantastic first visit to the Galapagos