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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#755 - Travel to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador (Repeat)

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-the-galapagos-islands-ecuador https://amateurtraveler.com/galapagos-cruise-on-quasars-evolution/ Hear about travel to the Galapagos Islands as Chris Christensen, the Amateur Traveler himself, talks about a live-aboard cruise of the Galapagos Islands on Quasar Expeditions M/V Evolution. The Galapagos is a singular destination. People describe other places as the 'Galapagos of Mexico or the Galapagos of some other place' but the Galapagos doesn't try and compare itself to anywhere else. This is a must-see destination for people who want a vacation to see wildlife. People can tell you how the wildlife here is different because it does not fear humans but until you are standing by a giant tortoise, walking through a booby nesting ground, or swimming with sea turtles and sea lions, it is hard to understand what that really means. This is a place where you come to see giant tortoises or iguanas, but it is also a place to see interesting bird species like Nasca boobies, blue-footed boobies, and red-footed boobies. But it is also a place to experience the islands under the water. Have you swum with turtles, penguins, and sharks... on the same day? Have you had sea lions swim circles around you? The best way to experience the Galapagos Islands is on a live-aboard boat. I was fortunate enough to be invited by award-winning Quasar Expeditions to explore the Galapagos on their M/V Evolution as their guest (they paid). This 32-passenger boat is one of the larger boats that explores the Galapagos. I describe a one-week itinerary to the eastern islands in the Galapagos including stops at: San Cristóbal Island, South Plaza Island, Santa Cruz Island, Mosquera Island, Sombrero Chino, Santiago Island, Genovesa Island, Isla Seymour Norte, Santa Fe Island, and Floreana Island. If the Galapagos are not on your bucket list... they should be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Chris from an amateur traveler and this is going to be a repeat episode from 2001 about my trip to the Galapagos because I am off traveling in Central America this week in Belize and Guatemala.

0:14.8

But I think you'll love this episode. back to on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good in my

0:26.8

passport photo.

0:28.7

Amateur Traveler episode 755. Today the amateur traveler talks about sea lions and

0:36.5

frigate birds, tortoises and turtles, boobies and iguanas as we go to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.

0:50.0

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host, Chris Christensen, let's talk about Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.

0:56.0

No guest to introduce for this

1:03.2

episode as it's going to be a solo episode. I am just recently back from the Galapagos Islands

1:06.4

and this was a bucket list trip and I want to tell you about it.

1:10.9

Before I do that, I should tell you that this was a sponsored trip. I was

1:14.7

fortunate enough to be invited down there by Quasar Expeditions and if you haven't

1:20.3

heard of them they've been around for quite a while. They've won best awards from Travel Leisure

1:24.8

magazine, Afar, Kondy Nast Traveler, etc. So they've been around for a while. They've been on my radar for a while.

1:31.5

I don't know how long I've been thinking about a Galapagos trip, but if you go back

1:34.8

in Amateur Traveler, we've done two other episodes on the Galapagos, and I was re-listening to those before I went and I noticed that the one we did most recently which was 2007

1:45.2

I told the guests that I thought we would get to the globagos the next year so

1:49.3

this trip took a little longer than was planned.

1:53.0

I usually ask my guess why should someone go to the Galapagos and that is a pretty easy answer

2:00.0

if you like wildlife.

2:02.0

This is a singular destination. Other places talk about being the

2:07.2

Galapagos of Mexico or the Galapagos of this or the Galapagos of that, but the Galapagos

2:11.5

just describes itself as the Galapagos.

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