Sunday 17th April Breakfast at 6am we packed our stuff, said goodbye to our 6 amazing crew members and headed on land to Puerto Ayora to catch a bus to the El Chato tortoise reserve. It was very muddy and hot but we did sees few tortoises (the most famous reptile in the archipelago, they can live for several hundred years. Seafarers killed tortoises for their meat in the 18th and 19th centuries and from an estimated population of 200,000 only some 15,000 now rem...

Wednesday 6th April We got up (late!) checked out the hostel and grabbed some breakfast before getting our taxi to Talara airport. We flew back to Lima with no delays and got to our hostel for the night. Thursday 7th April Back to Lima airport to fly to Guayaquil, we arrived at lunchtime; it was roasting in Guayaquil! We got a taxi straight to our hostel (that had a travel agent too) in search of a Galapagos cruise!  It was alot easier finding a cruise than ...