booked trip to Galapagos!
Well, so much for that Oaxaca trip, but I booked my trip to the Galapagos for Feb. 2008! I'm so very excited... going on MV Samba with 5 other friends. Just wanted to share the news...
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wow. that's too bad. i had such a great experience in peru & chile, and while i thought i may experience that negative aspect in those countries, i did not and had a great time in both places. of...
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You bet you've got to do it, and we were in a large group, so bad things didn't happen to most of us...just two of our group, so put it in perspective. I don't know if you have luggage restrictions....
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Just got a private email asking for more details, and whether or not to go. I'd like to share my answer:In a nutshell, I wonÂ’t go back to Quito; too many bad things happened there, and they need to...
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A good friend of mine went to the Galapagos on a smaller boat; I think it was with Inca Floats. He had nothing but raves about the whole experience. It was perhaps 5 years ago, so I wonder if the...
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gardenridge, i'm going on a smaller ship, only 13 passengers. it had good reviews from another traveler recently and our tour agent uses this ship for their itinerary exclusively, so i am confident we...
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I think the Discovery was willing to do anything to make sure the trip happened. When we got to Valparaiso, we started hearing, "if we pass the environment tests" "if we are allowed to proceed" "if...
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I was having trouble understanding your reasoning. Wow, now it makes sense now. That is very scary.
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whoa! i now understand what you were talking about! that's just insane. how could that boat handle all those extra people without impacting those who PAID for this trip? i did not realize that these...
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Just talked to the other couple who went with us, to clarify, and they figured that there were about 50 in accommodations for the period from Manta in Ecuador to the last evening on April 10th, so...
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this is really a wild story. I had no idea it was so difficult to get in to the Galapagos. thanks for clueing us in, GR.
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I don't think it is. I think it's difficult for the mv Discovery cruise ship to get in. Politics are that they don't want larger cruise ships, but are making it interesting for themselves anyway.
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Yes, I'm starting to think this has a lot to do with the ship. I'm guessing the local authorities saw this as the chance of lifetime to experience a luxury cruise. What a shame that it colored your...
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It coloured my view of Ecuador politics, not the Galapagos.
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gardenridge, your boat was definitely the problem. i spoke to my tour agent this morning (she lived on the Galapagos for 4 years and her husband works for UNESCO, emphasis on the Galapagos). the mv...
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Perhaps the size of the boat does have play into this if there is a lot of resentment and/ or politics related to it's size?Our boat was a smaller one, I think it could hold 80 pax though there were...
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From what my tour agent told me, the park officials are OK with 100 passengers or less. This particular boat and size is much bigger than any of the other ones cruising the Galapagos, so,...
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Looking forward to hearing about your trip! I'm considering the MV Samba for my own visit to the Galapagos in April or October next year.Have a great time!
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hi unster, fyi, I got this email from a friend who is going to the Galapagos with us next year:Thought you might be interested in a conversation I had with a lady in Holland. We were on a local bus in...
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