Vacation in the Galapagos - Heading Home
...continued from Excursions - part two
Day five, we packed up to leave, ate our last breakfast and loaded into the bus to head to the airport. Oh yeah, this meant to water taxi/luggage toss in reverse. We had no problems at the airport, even had time to enjoy an ice cream (or for me, a bag of potato chips) before finally boarding to head back to Guayaquil where our mini-bus awaited us. Oh, nice extra, our travel agent at CATSA, Bryan Vidal, upgraded us to first class! I had a window seat so snagged a few photos as we left the Galapagos.
The bus ride home was comfortable, we stopped for dinner and then each of us got dropped off at our door - nice since it was dark and raining. A great vacation but it felt good to be home!
OUR THOUGHTS:
We loved the Galapagos and it's hard to choose when we would go again. The "summer/warmer" months are easier for scuba diving. The seas are calmer. So I suspect we will return in May/June in a year or two.
While our package was a GREAT deal for the money, many prefer to book their own hotel and then grab excursions at 50% or more off by booking the day before or of the excursion. As I said above, we do plan to go back and we will have a much better idea of what to expect. We will tailor the vacation to our needs with lots of scuba excursions for Stu and maybe 1-2 land excursions for me (or both of us).
Not enough photos? I took well over 500, you can view them all in our three SmugMug Albums.
Day five, we packed up to leave, ate our last breakfast and loaded into the bus to head to the airport. Oh yeah, this meant to water taxi/luggage toss in reverse. We had no problems at the airport, even had time to enjoy an ice cream (or for me, a bag of potato chips) before finally boarding to head back to Guayaquil where our mini-bus awaited us. Oh, nice extra, our travel agent at CATSA, Bryan Vidal, upgraded us to first class! I had a window seat so snagged a few photos as we left the Galapagos.
The bus ride home was comfortable, we stopped for dinner and then each of us got dropped off at our door - nice since it was dark and raining. A great vacation but it felt good to be home!
OUR THOUGHTS:
We loved the Galapagos and it's hard to choose when we would go again. The "summer/warmer" months are easier for scuba diving. The seas are calmer. So I suspect we will return in May/June in a year or two.
While our package was a GREAT deal for the money, many prefer to book their own hotel and then grab excursions at 50% or more off by booking the day before or of the excursion. As I said above, we do plan to go back and we will have a much better idea of what to expect. We will tailor the vacation to our needs with lots of scuba excursions for Stu and maybe 1-2 land excursions for me (or both of us).
Not enough photos? I took well over 500, you can view them all in our three SmugMug Albums.
Ciao for now!
