I was awake at 5:00am. After all the animals we saw last night, I was wanting an early start. Surprisingly, John was not as interested at getting up so early, so I went down to the lobby and caught some WIFI until 7:00. By 8:00am we were at the start of the path to Tortuga Bay. We walked a half hour on a beautiful pathway. Many finches and birds …
We left our hostel at 5:30am for our 9:30am flight to Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos. It took about 40 minutes to reach the airport. We were told to go early because lineups for extra luggage checks to Galápagos are long due to them checking for banned food, plant and animal products to this protected area. We flew through the lineup and when we went to our airline booth they asked if …
I am a bit concerned because a couple days ago John and I both sent a bag of clothes out with the laundry service (very reasonable at $5 per bag). John’s came back yesterday and mine didn’t…apparently the drier broke down so mine was in another drier but should be back later today. My fingers are crossed. We boarded the organized bus tour to Otavalo at 6:30am. Otavalo is …
I was feeling well enough to do some light sightseeing today. We had breakfast at our hostel. I must confess I prefer the breakfast at our first hostel. It’s funny, but although Carpedm is half the price, it has a better breakfast and doesn’t charge you $2 US for the tea. The other thing is that Masaya sells bottles of water for $1.50 when just outside the entrance, the …