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Galapagos Islands travel: Kathy's slideshow of Santa Cruz

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Kathy's slideshow of Santa Cruz Island only begins to show the beauty of our Galapagos Island exploration. Mountain Travel Sobek has done a great job so far. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent arrangements.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Orange pillow lava walk.

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In this video, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel group is exposed to several beautiful things. Orange volcanic rock. Yellow tailed surgeon fish. Blue footed boobies. Galapagos Island dove, unique to this location.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Charles Darwin Research Center

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In this video, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel group is walking around the Charles Darwin Research Center. We see baby giant tortoise #30. The sex of the tortoise is determined by the incubation temperature! Also, more giant cacti.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Some perspective on these GIANTs

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These Galapagos Island giant tortoises are truly huge creatures. Sebastian tries to inspire "craning" (or was it "stilting"?) imitating a bird's motions. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel guide, got the tortoise to lift it's head.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Lunch at Angermeyer Point

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We took the panga to the restaurant. Yum! Nice views from the table, too. Here's some perspective on how nice Mountain Travel Sobek has this trip arranged: in the middle of the Galapagos Islands, the kids are able to make music with crystal glasses

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Galapagos Islands travel: Walking into town from Charles

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Our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel group walks thru town. Maybe this particular Galapagos Island has become a bit commercialized, but there were surprisingly pretty shops and a functional fishing village. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com

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Galapagos Islands travel: Walking the Lava Tube.

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This was a great walk through a lava tube. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure travel guide, said that cows used to disappear by falling into openings of the tube before it was known there was a tube.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Panga to the Giant Tortoises

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First, our daily briefing summary and Santa Cruz bay. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek guide, explains Darwin's seasickness aboard the Beagle. Also: cactus cliff shoreline, GIANT seagull, quick bus ride, living fence, smooth-billed Ani

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Galapagos Islands travel: Giant Tortoise video

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You can't imagine how huge these beauties are until you get up close and personal. Galapagos Islands giant tortoise brought to you by Mountain Travel Sobek. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent arrangements.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Lonesome George and Diego

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Lonesome George, the most famous Galapagos Island giant tortoise alive. Even a beautiful "tortoise-ologist" couldn't inspire him to mate. Diego, on the other hand, is quite prolific. Plus, a beautiful land iguana at Charles Darwin Research

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Galapagos Islands travel: Giant tortoise charging at us.

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This guy was really motoring! The other Galapagos Island giant tortoise in this video emptied his lungs and hissed at us when retracting his head, but you would have to turn your speakers up painfully loud to hear it. Klaus, our Mountain Travel

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Galapagos Islands travel: Kathy's slideshow of Espanola

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Kathy's slideshow of Espanola (Hood) Island, Punta Suarez, hardly does justice to this portion of our second Galapagos Island. Mountain Travel Sobek has done a great job so far. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent

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Galapagos Islands travel: Galapagos tomato patch, poison

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These tomatoes only grow on the Galapagos Islands. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure guide, said it took the foremost "tomato-ologist" a long time to figure out how to germinate the seeds. The tomatoes were delicious. We all took some seeds

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Galapagos Islands travel: Our child the Giant Tortoise,

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Leave it to Sebastian to become a giant tortoise. The panoramic view of this Galapagos Island only begins to touch on the beauty present. Let Mountain Travel Sobek take you there. Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent

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Galapagos Islands travel: Persistence. More most picturesque

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On this Galapagos Island, we see the infamous 'dead iguana' holding on by a fingernail, the very definition of persistence. Our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure group continues to explore the most beautiful portion. RomanoTravelOnline.com

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Galapagos Islands travel: Birds, boobies, frigates, nests

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Starts with an auditory identification error. Love those blue feet! A Galapagos Island iguana against the "white cliffs" (guess why they're white...). Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent arrangements.

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Galapagos Islands travel: Most picturesque moment

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The entire scene on this Galapagos Island could not have been fabricated any more beautifully. It hardly translates to video. Let Mountain Travel Sobek take you there! Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com made all our travel agent arrangements.

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Galapagos Islands travel: The Blue footed Booberie.

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The path to the booberie. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek guide, assured us that this place is really properly called a booberie. You can hear lots of male whistles and female honks. Love those blue feet! Gail from RomanoTravelOnline.com

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Galapagos Islands travel: Red billed birds and other cool

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Can't remember the name of these Galapagos Islands red billed birds. Something inappropriate like 'crab cracker'; inappropriate because they don't eat crabs nor could their bills crack a crab. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek guide

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Galapagos Islands travel: The Nazca Booberie.

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Right next door to the blue footed colony was the Nazca colony. Klaus, our Mountain Travel Sobek adventure guide, explained why the two colonies on the same Galapagos Island were not competing for the same limited resources. RomanoTravelOnline.com

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