We landed about noon on Baltra Island in the Galapagos to 90 degree weather and 75% humidity.  After a 20 minute bus ride to the dock, we...

Quito is a city of 1.5 million, perched in the Andes at about 11,000 feet. We arrived and got a taxi from the "official" taxi kiosk. Our...

Dear Friends, The next segment of our trip after the Amazon took us to wildly different parts of Peru: Arequipa in the mountains and...