This was the most amazing experience of my life, everyone needs to go to Galapagos immediately!! I am definitely going back. Day 1 Another early start, we were out the door at 5:30am!!! to start the 2.5 hour plane ride to Galapagos. We are on a 16 person boat, which I think is one of the smaller ones here and our group is 6 Aussies, 5 Canadian, 3 Peruvians (although they now live in Australia) and us. So far so good. Day 1 we set ourselves up in our rooms...

From San Jose, we flew into Quito where we would spend a day before going on to Galapagos. We had one full day in Quito, there was quite a bit to do so we hired a private guide (fancy, eh?). Our guide was a nice middle aged man from Quito. We spent the morning travelling out to the equator line. The Equator is about an hour from Quito and is quite an interesting trip. Our first stop was the 'Mitad del Mundo', or Middle of the World as measured by French scienti...