Traveling to the Galápagos Islands had been a lifelong dream, but experiencing them through a conservation-focused travel program transformed that dream into something far more meaningful. This is my firsthand experience joining a sustainable, volunteer-based Galápagos conservation trip with ConservationVIP. Why the Galápagos Islands Had Always Been My Dream Destination For years, the Galápagos Islands…
About Galapagos The Galapagos Islands are a rare and distinctive collection of volcanic islands located 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. It is influenced by a combination of hot equatorial sun and cool ocean waters from the convergence of the Cromwell and Humboldt currents. These unique features have nurtured a…
Some things just “say” Galapagos. Darwin. The blue-footed booby. Marine iguana. Tortoise. Darwin’s finches. I’d heard the words before, but now I was about to see them. Here I was, shoe-horned into a small plane approaching Isla Isabela, the outermost inhabited island on the Galapagos Volunteer Trip, with about a dozen Conservation Volunteers International Program…