Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Galapagos part 2

After the lava tunnels, we went to Los Gemelos (the twins) which are two large craters created by compressed volcanic gases in chambers exploding. When you shouted you could hear it echoing all round.
Since 1990s when they changed the law no one can move to the Galapagos, unless they are working on a science project or something, or marry someone who already lives there. The people who live there though (20,000) are mainly from different parts of Ecuador. In the 70s (i think) there was big fires in Loja (another part of Ecuador) so the goverment gave some land in the Galapagos to the people of Loja, so there is one village just of people from Loja.
After Los Gemelos, although the tour had officially finished our guide took us to a school performace, as we were really near there and his girlfriend was the dance teacher for the performance. He told us it was one of the posh schools on the island, and pointed out the mayor and ex governor of the Galapagos in the audience. The performance was of Dr Seuss The Lorax, read partly in English partly in Spanish, and was very cute. After we got yogurt and chocolate bread, all made on the island and then went back for dinner in Puerto Ayora.
Friday started with a tour of Tortuga Bay. With a 30 minuit walk in the heat to start, it was amazing when we arrived at the white sand beach with turquoise sand and marine iguanas lying on the sand. It was incredible to see them as they are so different to anything ive ever seen in the wild, and lying on this perfect beach! Icouldnt believe how empty the beach was eitehr considering its meant to be peak season, there were only one family there.

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  1. The Galapagos Islands are the most incredible living museum of evolutionary changes, with a huge variety of exotic species (birds, land and sea animals, plants) and landscapes not seen anywhere else.

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