Galapagos Islands Vacations

generally keep a theme of wildlife, these islands for its unusual inhabitants (animals and plants) famous. Nature lovers will be in awe of this wonder of the environment, and can be hours to spend exploring the island on land and cruise between the islands.

This extraordinary volcanic archipelago consists of 13 main islands, 6 smaller islands and 107 islets and rocks. The oldest of these islands goes back about 10 million years, and because the islands form on a bed of volcanic activity, such as the Galapagos hotspot, they are still known today. Geography lovers on tours of the island will be fascinated by the Galapagos archipelago, straddling the equator and is still growing.

Islands Elementary

Baltra is in the center of the Galapagos. It is small and flat, and was the first island to have an airport. For years, the airport, travelers on vacation Galapagos Islands has served, but today there is another airport of the archipelago that the stock market. It is an island quite dry and barren, but it has a unique beauty and interest of its own. Here you see the desert-like vegetation such as prickly pear, salt and Bush Palo Santo tree.

If you are an island with a little more life, Spanish can be a better base for your stay at the Galapagos Islands. At 3.5 million years, this island is a diverse population of fauna and flora has created. It has a population particularly fascinating marine iguanas that these large reptiles, their color during the breeding season. Another animal that is of particular interest here is the albatross. There are a number of steep cliffs of the island where the birds removed as a track, as their feeding areas of the ocean.

If the idea tickles identify the albatrosses on Española your imagination, you should be sure to include spending some time on your tour of North Seymour Galapagos. This island is literally full of birds, especially with healthy populations of blue-footed boobies and swallow-tailed gulls. As is the case with Spanish, North Seymour, a number of high cliffs. These cliffs are ideal nesting place for birds and swallow-tailed gulls and tropical birds, these cliffs here at home.

Some small islands

If you do not attend, an opportunity all the small Galapagos Islands on your vacation, they are always interesting and remarkable. Daphne Major, for example, is a small tree-less island, although it may be devoid of vegetation, has a large population of birds. Access is restricted to this island and steered out of national parks. This small island was interesting creating a 20-year study of Darwin’s finches, and is also the home of birds such as red-Phaethon, the masked booby and the Galapagos Martin settled.

A small island with a rich flora of South Plaza. Beautiful cacti line the banks and the Sesuvium ground vegetation is remarkable. During the rainy season is the Sesuvium a rich green color, the orange and purple enough turns during the dry season. Although the island has an area of only 0.13 km, is the impressive flora is a popular stop for visiting the Galapagos Islands.


Galapagos Island Tours