Galapagos, Machu Picchu, & Easter Island Tours

Galapagos, Machu Picchu, & Easter Island Tours offer a great way to experience the best of Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. The Galapagos Islands were the inspiration for Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and provide an unparalleled opportunity to observe wildlife up close. Machu Picchu served as a center of worship, an astronomic observatory, and a private hacienda for the Inca Pachacutec, and was recently named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. And, Easter Island, located 2,200 miles west of Chile in the Pacific Ocean, is home to over 800 Moai statues that stand up to 33 feet tall, and whose origin is still a mystery.

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Machu Picchu, Peru

Machu Picchu and Easter Island

13 Days/12 Nights from $2,769

Our Machu Picchu and Easter Island Tour offers an opportunity to explore two of the most interesting archaeological sites in South America. The citadel of…

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Rano Raraku Crater, Easter Island

Galapagos and Easter Island

14 Days/13 Nights from $5,239

Galapagos and Easter Island are two of the most fascinating destinations in South America. Your tour will begin in Quito, a UNESCO World Heritage site…

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The Main Galapagos Islands and Visitor Sites

Marine iguanas that skitter up to you on seaside rocks, eyes darting. Frigatebirds, their crimson pouches inflating as they roost in bushes. Whitetip reef sharks, gliding past you as you snorkel in calm waters. Sound inspiring? It was to Charles Darwin, whose awe at the boldness of the Galapagos Islands’ wildlife was what set him on the path to his theory of natural selection. His 1831 voyage put this remote archipelago…

Natural Calendar of the Galapagos

In the Galapagos Islands, the wildlife is the main attraction. Below is an indication of what you can expect to see throughout the year during your Galapagos Cruise…

How Darwin’s Findings In Galapagos Contributed To His Theory Of Natural Selection

In 1835, not long before arriving at the Galapagos Islands, Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his friend and mentor John Stevens Henslow. “In a few days’ time,”…

A Guide To The Main Structures Of Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu isn’t just an archaeological wonder: It’s also an architectural masterpiece. With more than 200 buildings that we know of, intelligently divided into urban…

Hiram Bingham And The Discovery Of Machu Picchu

On July 24, 1911, a Yale lecturer of South American history stumbled through the dense jungle on the saddle of a steep-sided mountaintop in Peru. Cutting through the undergrowth…

Easter Island’s Quarry: Where The Giant Moai Heads Were Born

“Holy Moai!” As we neared Rano Raraku, the site of the quarry where Easter Islanders once fashioned the famous stone statues (Moai) for which the island is best known…

Mythological Figures Of Easter Island

Much of what we do know of the gods and other mythological figures of Easter Island is derived from oral tradition passed down through the centuries. And, like Easter Island…

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