We took off and landed ten times with the plane. We spent six days on a yacht in the Pacific near the Galápagos Islands. We sailed for three hours on a motor canoe along the Amazon's left-hand tributary to get to our lodging deep in the jungle. We were paddling on the inflatable canoeing in the ocean. We cut by machete part of the trailing path leading through the deep rainforest. We climbed almost to 5000 meters above sea level. We have experienced the real rain forest, and we saw incredible species of animals and plants. All this and much more was our holiday in Ecuador and the Galapagos. It was a challenging but absolutely wonderful holiday, if not the most amazing, that we have ever had.

I deliberately chose the same introduction for both articles because both sites visited belongs Ecuador and we visited both places within one holiday. On the contrary, these territories are so different that I divided our experiences into two separate articles.


Unreal nature, on each island whit other animals and some different scenery, amazing sea, incredible experience for snorkeling, great food only after time spent on a yacht, but in fact the whole of our holiday – these were Galápagos.

The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Islas Galápagos), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the Equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the center of the Western Hemisphere, 906 km (563 mi) west of continental Ecuador. The islands are known for their vast number of endemic species and were studied by Charles Darwin during the second voyage of HMS Beagle, as his observations and collections contributed to the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

The Galápagos Islands and their surrounding waters form the Galápagos Province of Ecuador, the Galápagos National Park, and the Galápagos Marine Reserve. The principal language on the islands is Spanish. The islands have a population of slightly over 25,000. There are 18 main islands (each having a land area at least 1 km²).

The visit to Galápagos has been and still is a really unforgettable experience for us. It is truly a breathtaking unique archipelago with many endemic species of plants and animals and one of the true still-existing natural paradises on earth.

Video from snorkeling

Several photos