May 19- Quito to Galapagos

Another day, another new destination.  This flight was from Quito to Baltra in the Galapagos, with a stop in Guyaquil.
View of a deep river gorge from the bus to the airport.


We were NOT impressed with Avianca.  Anything on board, including water, had a price and it looked like they'd borrowed their pricing for US airlines.  Note that the currency is in $US, which Ecuador adapted in 2000.    

$3.00 for INSTANT coffee.  Nope.

Landing.

Very late lunch- from the airport you take a bus to a ferry to our private bus.  Restaurant was open-air, surrounded by land with a lot of giant tortoises and interesting birds.  A yellow land iguana blocked part of the path as we walked from the plane to the terminal!


We had some time to explore the wildlife preserve after lunch.





Dinner in a pedestrian secion of Port Ayora.  Great lobster tail!

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