Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

Day 5 (Friday 4 July) - Galapagos, Isabela Island
The next day, our breakfast at the Wooden House was greeted by the confusing question ‘who’s good at horse riding’?  Nobody put there hands up, but our tour guide, Mariano, led us on underterred to the slopes of Isabela’s Sierra Negra, rumoured to be the world’s second largest volcanic crater.  [...]

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Day 4 (Thursday 3 July) - Quito to Galapagos
Our flight was fairly early, via Guayaquil.  Interestingly, this is actually Ecuador’s largest city despite nobody ever having heard of it!  We then stayed on the plane and landed in heavy sunshine in the galapagos!  Hurrah!
We knew we were meant to be meeting the ´survivors´of the boat [...]

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Day 3 (Quito)
Up reasonably early again and into the old town for breakfast (no more $5 rip-off at the hotel for us!).  I had my first genuine guanabana juice which was highly exciting.
We then wondered round the old town some more.  We thought we´d already seen all of it about five times, but managed to [...]

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