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A tourist entertains the local fisherfolk with
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These photos attempt to give you an impression of what you will see if you care to take a trip to the Galapagos Islands. It covers a little of the landscape, the boats you might travel in, and a lot of the animals and birds you would meet around and about - seals, penguins, iguanas, giant tortoises, blue-footed boobies, pelicans, frigate birds, albatrosses, varied herons and oyster catchers.

The islands, officially known as 'Archipélago de Colón' [1892], were visited by Charles Darwin in 1835 and the inter-island variations of the giant tortoises and finches [small birds!] inspired his revolutionary and controversial 'The Origin of the Species by Natural Selection', Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Since then the islands, 1,000km [620 miles] off the South American coast and claimed by Ecuador in 1832, have hosted mainly fishermen, whalers, pirates and prisoners, only evolving into a National Park in 1959, precisely 100 years after Darwin's publication.
Tourism in the area is strictly controlled and guides are mandatory, so there's no way to do this trip on the super-cheap. You can reduce costs by organising your own flights to Santa Cruz island from the mainland, and finding accommodation and boats when you get there, but most of the yearly 60,000 visitors bite the bullet and pay the price, knowing that they are guaranteed a unique close-to-the-claw wildlife experience that not even Africa can match.

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