Thank God for gravol!
Well, I am now back from the amazing Galapogos islands, and yes I still feel like I am on a boat, despite being off of it for much more than 12 hours.
We arrived to this quaint little yacht that would hold 16 passengers and 7 crew members on a warm day at Baltra Island. About 4 hours later I hit the loo, vomitting. yep, I get seasick. Thank god for gravol. It did wonders for the rest of the trip. The trip was amazing despite the vomitting on the first day. We visited about 6 islands and snorkeled everyday in different terrain. We got to see a lot of wildlife and plant life. The islands themselves are amazing because tehy are all so different. Anyway, not to bore you with too many details, we saw: many birds, including the boobie (above picture) and darwins finches, many fish, sharks, rays, seaturtles and penguins, sealions and fur seals, land and marine iguanas, and many giant tortoises in captivity and in the wild. I have some amazinng pictures from teh trip. We had a wonderful crew and a great guide, who took at the passengers out drinking on our last night, to a salsa club in Puerto Ayora, which is in the main inhabited city in the islands. We had a great time dancing and drinking very cheap beer. After all the very early morning wakeups I am exhausted and am going to spent all of tommarow doing nothing, and enjoying the benefits of the hotel before I have to go back to backpacker life...
The plan: hit otavallo on a day trip to check out the market and the festival, than head to Riobamba for the Devils nose train ride...supposed to be amazing.
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