Galapagos Islands

The Galapagos Islands are a wildlife paradise, where the animals have never learned to fear man. The archipelago is made up of thirteen major islands, six smaller ones and scores of islets, spread over an area of eight thousand square metres. In 1835 Charles Darwin spent five weeks visiting the Islands. He was sufficiently inspired by "this living laboratory of evolution" to include details of his findings in his revolutionary book "Origin of Species".

Blue-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls, bright yellow warblers, flightless cormorants, giant tortoises and waved albatrosses, are just some of the extraordinary array of wildlife. In the Galapagos there are also volcanoes, white, sandy beaches, and an abundance of flora found nowhere else on the planet.