The seas were again rough during the night and I wake up at 5AM thinking I am rolling out of bed. Our choice today is spending the morning in the town in San Cristobal or going to another Tortoise breeding area. Almost all of us choose the tortoises. We take a 45 minute bus ride (it's also interesting to see the 'countryside'!) It's feeding time when we arrive and we see someone taking huge philodendron leaves to various feeding points. It's great fun to see thenm munching away. My new camera allows me to take some great shots too. The facility is about 5 years old. Some of the tortoises are much older than that, some were born there. All will be reintroduced into the wild. We ride back to town and spent the better part of an hour sightseeing before leaving for the airport. We buy more Galapagos coffee. I wonder how we can possibly fit it into a suitcase. It's a bit sad leaving our new friends - but we vow to keep in touch to some extent and to share photos (I've taken a couple of thousand - so it'll be a while before I can weed them down enough to be able to share). We fly back to Quito (via Guayaquil) . The Adventure Life guide meets us at he airport and gets us to a van which drops us back at Casa Aliso. The same hotel manager is there and he points us to an even better restaurant. We have cevichi - a absolutely fantastic seafood appetizer, outstanding main seafood-based dishes, and (even though we were stuffed) we shared a piece of unbelievable blackberry pie. What a meal! When we return from dinner, our hotel manager tells us he can get us a driver for $10 an hour for our last morning in Ecuador. We say yes and he makes the arrangements for the next day.
Kevin got right on our request and had us booked within the week
Linda Cummings
1 day ago
The info on the website was laid out very well. I did some comparisons with other tours and found Adventure Life met a lot of what I wanted in an Antarctica trip at the cheapest price. Requested a quote on Claudia contacted me right away. She answered a lot of questions the I had via email even though she offered to discuss via phone call. I’m more of an email person so appreciated how she accommodated that and answered all my questions. And when I was ready to book, she quickly got the ball rolling with getting our spots reserved on the trip my friend and I wanted. Thanks again, Claudia!
Hazel Araza
1 day ago
(1) great information on the website and throughout all the "materials." (2) Jane Packer is great: knowledgeable, responsive, takes a personal interest and tone, seems to care about the customer as a person not a sale.
Larry Bethune
1 day ago
great people doing a wonderful job to make our voyages happen.
trudy
2 days ago
For our first trip to Costa Rica, Adventure Life designed a tour that meets the interests, ecological and adventure, of our party; but also takes into account our physical limitations sine we are all septuagenarian. We are looking forward to the trip.