Anyone ever visit Ecuador?

[wryter2000]

8. You'd better look into Galapagos ahead of time

There are populated islands where you could no doubt move around freely, but if you want to visit the uninhabited islands, I'm pretty sure you have to be on an approved cruise. Galapagos is a national park, and if I understand correctly, they only allow a few approved cruise companies access to the wilder areas. I went on a National Geographic cruise. It was very expensive but worth it.

Most of the time we were on the smaller islands we were the only people on it.

That said, I'm not sure you can find a single room, and paying double would be ridiculous. One of the major populated islands has tortoises in the highlands, and it has the Darwin center, so you could probably do that island without being on a cruise. If you can get there. I'm not sure that island has an airport.

So, I guess the bottom line is you'd better do a lot of research and not just figure "While I'm here, I'd like to see Galapagos."

Lots and lots of amazing snorkeling on our cruise.