15 Things You Must Know Before Your Next Galapagos Islands Trip

You’ve dreamt of it for a lifetime. The Galapagos Islands. A place where history has been made. For centuries, home to pirates and whalers, but mostly to highly unusual fauna, an inspiration for Darwin’s theory as presented in On the Origin of Species. And one of the few places on Earth where the wildlife shows no fear of humans, meaning you can observe it from just a few meters away. You want to see and do everything. But with so many options available in this magical, exhilarating, iconic destination, you know there will be some trade-offs.

How to determine what works best for you?

How to separate the essential from the merely beautiful? The transformative from the enticing?

The perceptions from the realities…

Galapagos Islands Travel

Things you must know when you are travelling to Galapagos.

Isabel Espinoza

Isabel Espinoza (1994) was born and raised in the beautiful cradle of mountains we call Quito. She has a degree in Journalism from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. People and their stories have always been her thing (as well as traveling, nature, astronomy, and photography). Her love for Ecuador, Galapagos, and South America is immense and blogging allows her to share a glimpse of this affection with the rest of the world.