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Galapagos Island Vacation

Enjoy the Spectacular Experience of a Galapagos Island Vacation

Galapagos Island Vacation offers a trip to a location that is of special interest to naturalists and botanists. The Galapagos Islands have provided an important part to our understanding of the natural world. This island group includes thirteen major volcanic islands and six smaller islands with the addition of several islets and rocks. The latest volcanic eruption happened in 2005. The islands now are a National Park and a World Heritage Site.

The islands are home of numerous species that are sui generis to that region and conservation is very significant here. The unique species includes the Galapagos Marine Iguana and Land Iguana, sea cucumber and diversities of hawk, penguins, turtles and sea lions. The introduction of different animals and plants has upset the natural balance of life. Some of these were brought by colonists and some by visiting pirates. Cats, dogs, and pigs are the most harmful to the Galapagos Islands fauna and flora.

Part of the surrounding sea is a marine reserve and suffers from prohibited fishing. Holothurian is harvested and sharks are hounded for their fins. The rise in Galapagos Island vacation and the growth of the resident human population is another source of apprehension for environmentalists.

The islands have served several purposes over the years. Pirates used them to hide their smuggled goods, especially English pirates who were smuggling Spanish treasure. First the Galapagos Islands were visited by South Americans and Spanish conquerors, seeming on maps from around 1570. During World War II there was an American naval base on the island called Baltra. From 1946 to 1959 a penal colony operated on Isabela Island.

Galapagos Island Vacation is a spectacular experience. Do you know any other place where you could snorkel with a penguin without freezing, run across a lizard, scuba diving with graceful sea turtles and hammerhead sharks, watching at the west side of Isabela Island the flightless cormorant, or savor the courtship dancing of the massive waved albatross or blue-footed boobies.

The islands are well renowned for the part they played in the work of famous naturalist, Charles Darwin. He visited the islands in 1835 as a passenger aboard the HMS Beagle, a survey ship. The plant life, animals and birds that he explored on the trip made the groundwork of his research and what would get the Origin of Species. This was his theory of organic evolution and survival of the fittest that stunned the scientific community. The Galapagos Islands, abundant with unique species, was the ideal environment for Darwin's studies. With the opening of the Charles Darwin Research Station in 1964 began the conservation work at one of the islands that is named after him.

These islands are a valuable treasure house for nature lovers to enjoy and for scientists to study. However, a balance must be attained between preserving the delicate, ecological status of the area and giving access to the public. Darwin made the islands world-famous and we have the obligation of administratorship.