Galapagos Alternative

29/10/2026

Some guests bring a suitcase.
And leave behind a library.

Every book donated by our guests becomes a window for a local child in Galapagos — a chance to dream bigger, think freer, and go farther.

This is for the kids at Mangle Agile Learning Center the alternative school in Santa Cruz that teaches them to think creatively, act independently, and live intentionally.

Because as Dr. Seuss said:
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

Thank you for traveling with purpose.

26/10/2026

It is all that and more!

12/10/2026

06/10/2026

We have some beautiful news to share from Santa Cruz.

You might remember the difficult stories from earlier this year — small marine iguanas found during airport inspections, far from home and in need of care. Thanks to the quick work of our National Park rangers, police, and those amazing wildlife detection dogs, they were rescued.

After months of veterinary care and lots of love at the conservation center, they are finally back. Healthy, warm, and basking in the sun where they belong.

Look at them in this reel. So tiny, so resilient.

Marine iguanas live nowhere else on this planet. They are the only lizard in the world that can dive in the ocean and stay underwater for up to an hour. They are true Galápagos treasures, and they grow very, very slowly.

Every time we choose to protect them, to respect the controls, to say no to wildlife trade — we give stories like this a happy ending.

Welcome home, little ones. We missed you.

📍 Santa Cruz, Galápagos

23/09/2026

We watch them at the pier, the beach, the boardwalk, the road, the dock and it’s easy to forget.

They nap like dogs. They stretch in the sun. Mothers nuzzle their pups, pups tumble over each other with not a care in the world. For a minute, you feel like you could sit right down next to them.

Then a big male comes ashore. 300 kilos of muscle and instinct. He grabs a pup by the scruff and tosses it out of his path without a second thought.

No anger. No apology. Just nature being nature.

That’s the reminder.

They look like puppies. They are not puppies. They are wild, untamed, perfectly evolved marine predators who happen to tolerate us sharing their beach.

In Galápagos we have one simple rule, and it protects both of you: stay 2 meters away. Always.

Not because they are aggressive. But because they are wild. And wild doesn’t adjust to us — we adjust to it.

If you get too close and you get bitten, scared, or charged... it wasn’t an attack. It was a boundary you crossed.

Respect their space and you get to witness something rare: a world where animals still act like animals.

Let’s keep it that way.

*Please enjoy from a distance. Always 2 meters.*

22/09/2026

A different side of the Galápagos.

Not always sunny. Still always beautiful.

Even during the cool, garúa season, a little rain can completely change the mood of the Galápagos coastline.

17/09/2026

You never really know what’s going to swim into view in the Galápagos.

One minute you’re watching a school of fish move around you, and the next, a shark quietly passes through.

No big production. Just another day in the water, and a pretty good reminder of how much life is moving around us.