Tag: South America
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Biking on Santa Cruz, Galápagos
Day 10 – around Santa Cruz Island, 5h, ca. 27 km by bike Today we discovered one of the main Galápagos Islands by bike. Taxis are a nice way to get around the island, which is easy, btw – it’s all Toyota 4WD pick-ups they drive here and they take you to anywhere within Puerto…
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The individual traveller’s guide to Galápagos
Day 8 – AV1684 from GYE to GPS You can easily take US Dollars with you, it seems it’s their main currency. Make sure to have enough cash with you (especially when you haven’t paid your hotel in advance – ours didn’t accept credit cards). Before even being allowed to check our bags to Baltra (airport…
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A long layover in Quito, Ecuador
Day 7 – UA1035 from IAH to UIO & waiting for AV1620 – from UIO to GYE As you can tell I have had a lot of time in the past 24 hours to get together some blog posts about our recent trip to Washington, to edit all photos I took so far and to…