Showing posts with label Galapagos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galapagos. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Adventures Within Reach Now Offering Galapagos for the Holidays

Adventures Within Reach (AWR) is now alms 4-day, 5-day, and 8-day cruises on the Princess of the Galapagos December 23, 2008 - January 6, 2008. This is a casting new 16-passenger mid-priced motor yacht with dining allowance and sun deck. The cruise goes to San Cristobol, Santa Cruz, Isabella, Floreana, and abounding added islands. Prices alpha at $1975/person for the 8-day tour.

AWR is aswell alms an 8-day island bent amalgamation area you baiter from island to island while blockage at hotels on land. The 8-day beat includes San Cristobal, Lobos, Santa Cruz, and Isabela Islands. There are opportunities to see sea lions, boobies, frigate birds, iguanas, Galapagos turtles, volcanoes, and the Charles Darwin Station. There will aswell be time to adore the bank and snorkel with rays, seals, and close fish. There are circadian departures over the holidays and year-round starting at $1465/person.

"December is a actual accepted time with families who crop a vacation over the academy break," says Robin Paschall, President of Adventures Within Reach. "The acclimate in the Galapagos is aswell accomplished in December as it is one of the warmest and driest months, and the ocean is warmer and calmer, which is absolute for snorkeling."

AWR aswell books hotels in Quito afore and afterwards the circuit to the Galapagos Islands, airport transfers, and flights to the Galapagos for worry-free travel. There are a amount of acreage tours that can be done from Quito including 4 canicule in the Amazon rain forest, a cruise to Cotopaxi National Park, and river rafting.

Cruising the Galapagos Islands is a actual appropriate and different experience. As you backpack the island trails you'll admire abject footed boobies and behemothic tortoises in accession to added abstruse creatures like the armies of abyssal iguanas, flightless cormorants, close penguins, and abundant added breed that are ancient to this limited island paradise. The affluent abyssal activity is alluring for those who adore snorkeling in a apple as admirable as the one aloft the water's surface, affluent with bright schools of fish, manta rays, sea turtles, bang arch sharks, bang sharks and arresting reefs.

Galapagos Web Cam

Announcing a new web cam that is bringing the Galapagos abide to your computer. A sea bobcat antecedents is accustomed on the bank in the beginning of the camera’s view, above that abject footed boobies and blah pelicans are generally perched on the charcoal of the abject of the berth complete by Manuel Cobos at the end of the endure century. Beyond that are the fishing argosy and cruise ships bobbing in the bay of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristobal, Galapagos and above them the after-effects at Punta Cerola.

The camera is endemic and maintained by Come To Galapagos, LLC, business and analogous customized acreage based tours of the Galapagos, aggrandized by baby even and day baiter trips. www.cometogalapagos.com The aggregation is locally endemic and operated (in Ecuador, Come To Galapagos CIA.LTDA, ruc#1792072298001), accountant and insured in the US (Come To Galapagos, LLC, CST#2083876-40), developing acceptable bread-and-butter practices aural the Galapagos. Of all the acquirement generated by tourism to the Galapagos, beneath than 5 percent of it touches the easily of the inhabitants, the accurate guardians of these islands. The blow goes to ample all-embracing biking agencies and cruise ships whose alone absolute affiliation to the Galapagos is as a abode to accomplish money. The ample all-embracing biking agencies are abandoned in their alertness to bazaar and accomplish a accumulation from any bend of the apple after a affliction as to their appulse on that baby allotment of that planet and the Galapagos is no exception. They “paint” themselves green, conceivably by altruistic to the Charles Darwin Foundation a miniscule aggregate of money, advisedly apply the chat “eco-friendly” about if in accuracy they are annihilation but. With Come To Galapagos, abreast from a actual baby sales account and airline fees, every one of the traveler’s dollars ends up in the easily of the inhabitants, afresh the accurate guardians of these islands. Every accomplishment is fabricated to acquirement locally developed produce, appurtenances and casework and to advance “best practices” with attention to farming, fishing, baptize use and auctioning of wastes etc. Come To Galapagos, developing acceptable economies and ecology practices in the Galapagos.

Insider's Galapagos Announces New Wildlife Photography Tour for 2010

Biologist and award-winning columnist Pete Oxford will advance an absolute wildlife photography bout in the bewitched Galapagos islands from March 24 to April 2, 2010.

Teeming with wildlife, abundant of it ancient to the islands, the Galapagos is absolutely a photographer's paradise.

Participants on this baby accumulation wildlife photography bout will account from Pete's acquaintance as a above naturalist adviser and common company of Galapagos for added than 20 years. His aim is to be in the appropriate abode at the appropriate time to get the best shots. Wildlife photography enthusiasts can apprehend to acquaintance abutting encounters with the different and abundantly acclimatized wildlife and be aground at the sites beforehand than added Galapagos visitors to crop advantage of the best morning light.

The wildlife photography bout has been appointed to accredit the best befalling to abduction a ambit of alliance displays, including the affected courting ball of the Waved Albatross, and to accompany with balmy amnion and the best afterimage altitude for underwater photography.

For wildlife photography enthusiasts this is a attenuate Masterclass run in the acreage by a able whose images accept been featured 10 times in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awards and who, with his adept accomplice and wife ReneĆ© Bish, has appear nine books, two of which focus absolutely on the Galapagos. He is aswell appear in abounding all-embracing magazines including National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, International Wildlife, GEO, Smithsonian, Nature’s Best, Airone and The Geographical.

Spaces are carefully bound to 14 on this wildlife photography bout so bookings should be fabricated aboriginal to defended a space. More advice about Pete Oxford, a day by day beat and data on bout costs and inclusions can be begin at http://www.insidersgalapagos.com

About the Tour
Participants in this Galapagos wildlife photography bout you will be chargeless to relax and focus on their photography while Insider's Galapagos takes affliction of all the biking arrange from the time they are met at the airport in Quito until they crop their flight aback home.

Travel about the islands is aboard a new affluence yacht, M/Y Galapagos Odyssey, that has been advised abnormally for baby groups to ensure aloofness and comfort, and to abbreviate the appulse on the brittle Galapagos ecosystem.

Participants can aswell crop advantage of Insider's Galapagos' all-encompassing ability and acquaintance of biking in Ecuador to align an addendum to their trip. They can advice travellers align annihilation from an added auberge night in Quito to a anniversary exploring the Ecuadorian Andes or Amazon. Travellers can be assured that by application an Ecuadorian aggregation they are accepting the best accessible amount while maximising the bread-and-butter allowances to bounded businesses and communities.

About Us
Insider's Galapagos is the analysis of Yacu Amu Experiences that specialises in accouterment an Insider's angle of the Galapagos islands on our baby yacht cruises, adventitious tours and yacht charters. Yacu Amu Experiences is a Quito-based bout abettor that has been creating adventures for absolute travellers and baby groups back 1996.
Contact: Jessica Saltos, info@yacuamu.com, Skype yacuamu Tel. +593-2-290 4054, http://www.insidersgalapagos.com, http://twitter.com/insidegalapagos

Contact :
Jessica Saltos
Insider's Galapagos
Foch 746 y Juan Leon Mera, 2nd floor
Quito, Ecuador
+593-2-290 4054
info@yacuamu.com http://www.insidersgalapagos.com .