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The Silver Galapagos hosted our Silverseas Galapagos cruise – what an incredible adventure. Today we look back at the trip. Getting there and back The Galapagos is not really that far but not easy to get to. In our blog on Quito we described the logistics getting there. Leaving was not much easier. We leave the ship in the morning, bus to the local airport in Baltra and arrive in...

Land iguanas and cactus of the Galapagos

22 Jun 2019

Susan Wolfson

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Galapagos, ocean cruise, Silversea

Today we explore a new island in the Galapagos in search of land iguanas. Read an overview of our Galapagos series as well as the previous post on sea lions. Our hike for the day Today, we arrive at Cerro Dragon on Santa Cruz island. The day starts out early with an exploration walk. The feature here are the land iguanas. The rains had just come which really greened up the area. But...

Galapagos Giant Tortoise

21 Jun 2019

Susan Wolfson

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Galapagos, ocean cruise, Silversea

Today’s treat is a meeting with a giant tortoise. We are at our final island – Santa Cruz. Baltra, from which we will depart the next morning is just north of Santa Cruz (virtually adjacent to it). If you missed it, here’s our previous post. Coffee and the Galapagos giant tortoise The morning was split though both excursions were in the highlands of Santa Cruz. Sue went on a...

Quito en route to Galapagos

20 Jun 2019

Susan Wolfson

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Galapagos, ocean cruise, Silversea

In this post, we discuss some logistics and our time in Quito Ecuador. In case you missed it, here’s our previous post in this series. Logistics Getting to the Galapagos takes a little planning. With Silversea, flights are included and they did a very nice job with the schedules. We left from Philadelphia and landed in Quito Ecuador via Miami. Unfortunately our plane was late in taking...

Galapagos Sea lions

19 Jun 2019

Susan Wolfson

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Galapagos, ocean cruise, Silversea

Today we meet even more Galapagos sea lions. Today we start in Post office Bay, Florenana. Here’s our previous posts: Galapagos with Silversea, our overview post Penguins, our first full day Marine Iguanas, our second full day Galapagos and Mangroves, our third full day Kayaking Finally an easy morning. Our first and only morning activity was a kayak tour around 9:30 so got to...