The Galapagos Explorer ... wooden-table dining room was hung with vintage maps of the islands. Most meals were served here, and all of them truly exceptional, on artisanal flatware and crystal ...

The Galápagos rail (Laterallus spilonota), a small, elusive bird once believed extinct on Floreana Island, has been spotted again for the first time since Charles Darwin’s visit in 1835.

while there are somewhere around 50,000 of these sea lions in the Galapagos, they are considered threatened by the IUCN because they live nowhere else on Earth. Next stop, the island of Floreana ...

(The Galapagos penguin, one of the world's rarest ... to undertake an invasive species eradication program on Floreana Island, in the southern part of the archipelago. In October 2023, park ...

The Lonesome George room is in Puerto Ayora, the city where about 13,000 Galapagueños live. The Galápagos National Park ...

This was not the Galapagos wildlife encounter I expected, but considering I’d already spotted five of the iconic “Big 15” animals between the airport and the seaport, run-ins with the 9,000 ...

Photo from Getty Images / iStockphoto Plunging into the crystalline waters of the Galápagos Islands, scuba divers swam along a coral reef and watched its ever-shifting marine life. Amid the ...

but some of the top spots to encounter them include the tranquil Bachas Beach on Santa Cruz Island, vibrant waters of Punta Cormorant and La Lobería on Floreana Island, rugged coastline of Punta ...