Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands.
Yet the Galapagos is far more than a wild paradise on earth--it is one.
It is so remote, so untouched, that the act of wading ashore can make you feel like you are the first to do so.
Lying in the eastern Pacific Ocean, straddling the equator off the west coast of South America, the Galapagos is the most pristine archipelago to be found anywhere in the tropics.
Charles Darwin called it "a little world within itself." Sailors referred to it as "Las Encantadas"-- the enchanted islands