Traveling to the Galapagos? You NEED this info!

thank you surprise surprise we are on a plane again we are going somewhere super fun we'll see you when we get there [Music] before landing make sure you believe refunding make sure none of your personal resolutions are left in the place it has been a pleasure for us to serve you today we look forward to see you unfortunately thank you for potatoes [Music] so we made it to the Galapagos Islands first things we got to do jump out of Shadow now we gotta jump on a ferry and now back on another bus we made it to Puerto ayora now we gotta find our Airbnb all right so we made it to our Airbnb it ended up only being like a four minute walk from where we got dropped off so that was really nice but it was a lot to get here and that's just because when you fly into the Belcher airport here in the Galapagos it's actually on a separate Island than Puerto ayora Puerto ayora is on a Santa Cruz Island and like I said the airport is on baltra island so the two islands are separated by a canal and that's why you have to jump on a bus at Baltimore Airport to get to the ferry and you cross the canal on the ferry and then from the ferry you get on another bus and the bus takes you to the other side of the island about 40 minutes to get you to Puerto ayora which is where we are now and that whole process took us about an hour and a half to two hours to get here but this morning there was actually a little bit of a process before we got here and we didn't really get much of it on film because we were a little bit cranky after we head down to the airport this morning and the reason for that is is because when we went to check into her flight we were told that we booked the wrong ticket and when we booked our flight apparently we booked a ticket that's only for Ecuadorian residents so we got a much cheaper price than what you would pay if you are booking a ticket as somebody that's not from Ecuador apparently the reason for this is because the Galapagos charges an extra fee for international travelers to come here on top of the other fees that they already charge but I'll get to that in a second so when we got there we got told that we had to pay an extra hundred and fifty dollars a person for our tickets that we had already spent 150 a person on so that doubled the price of our tickets so we were a little bit crabby about that because it was an expense that we weren't expecting to pay so we ended up just having to pay it because otherwise we would have missed this whole trip and that's not something that we wanted to do in total they charged us two hundred and forty dollars extra and I think if that's just because when we originally booked our ticket we had booked 4 for a carry-on bag which was 30 bucks so I think if you had booked like the very lowest ticket it would be the full 150 extra per person I definitely do not make this mistake when you're coming to the Galapagos apparently when you book The Ticket there's a little Banner at the top of the screen that says this is only for Ecuadorian residents when we booked we don't remember seeing that you know we could have missed it and when we booked our tickets we had put in our nationality and it still didn't give us like a big error code it allowed us to buy the ticket so if you're expecting some sort of error to come up and reject you to not buy the tickets that's not going to happen so after we took care of that there's two more steps that you need to do before you can check in like normal so when you're coming to the Galapagos they require a Transit card which is twenty dollars a person at the Guayaquil airport there's a special section in between the international and National sections and there's yellow signage above it and you just go there you give them your passport and your ticket and you give them 20 bucks and then they give you a Transit card so that was super easy and then after that you have to go through special security because it's very strict here in the Galapagos on what you can bring in you go through a little bit of extra security measure just putting your bags through an extra machine they put a little blue tag on your bags so that everybody knows that you have gone through the security measure and then after that you just go to check into your flight like normal and you go through security like normal you just have to show them that Transit card that I was talking about before and then when you land in the Galapagos you go through kind of a little bit of a customs check even though you are still in Ecuador then you also have to pay a hundred dollar fee to come to the Galapagos per person and that has to be in cash so make sure you have cash on you for that and then after that is when you start the process of getting on the bus the ferry and then the bus again to get to the city of Puerto ayoro that is the whole process it's a lot I will say but we're so happy to be here despite you know having to pay an extra 240 dollars at the airport this morning we are absolutely starving so we are gonna head out and go grab a bite to eat [Music] just had a really good meal after checking in at our Airbnb decided to go check out the shore we were here not not even a minute and we saw four different types of wildlife we saw iguanas crabs birds and we got to see a giant tortoise [Music] foreign [Music] foreign so far away from the water like he's literally chilling on a city street [Music] so I got a smoothie on our walk and we're actually heading to a beach and we're really excited to get there so we'll see you when we get there [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] the water is just insane so blue and this beach is really pretty it's not very big though I wish we had brought our swimsuits so we could go swimming but we're still enjoying our time here thank you you see this line holding all the way down to the sand look where it leads to it's his tail it's so peaceful here we kept walking a little bit further down the path and we're at a place called La ratanera I think is how it's pronounced taste is so much more peaceful than the beach that we were just at there's only one other couple here and it's like nobody else around it's so beautiful and the Sun is starting to set and I just feel so thankful that we're able to be here because wow this place is so gorgeous and we cannot wait for what else it has in store for us over these next couple of days but this is where we're going to leave you tonight we'll see you guys for some more adventures in the morning foreign good morning everyone so it is day two here on the Galapagos Islands today we are gonna go explore Tortuga Bay which is about a 40 minute walk from where we're staying in Puerto ayora this is one of the hot spots of the Galapagos it's usually one of the busier spots because you can access it pretty easily there's a hiking trail to get there so we are gonna go explore and hopefully see some animals 40 minute walk we we have made it to Tortuga Bay there's a whole bunch of beaches up along the coastline over here so our first stop here is at Playa Brava [Music] foreign [Music] wow this beach is so beautiful the waves are insane here they are so big we brought our snorkel because we thought maybe we'd go swimming go snorkeling a little bit I don't think that's gonna happen it looks very dangerous out there these only Surfers out there right now besides people just dipping their feet in I hope that the clouds clear up a little bit because I feel like the water would just look even more blue without the clouds out but it's still beautiful regardless and we're really just enjoying a relaxing day out here [Music] we made it to the other side and it's a lot calmer over here because it's surrounded by land over there so I think now we're going to do some swimming the water was freezing at first now it feels amazing oh my gosh it feels so good we're so happy that we kept walking and we found this like other Beach I'm not sure exactly what it's called but we'll put the name of it on the screen but it's so beautiful and the water feels so nice and super calm is so salty we tried snorkeling but it's really murky underwater it's just so nice out here it's very peaceful like the other side was so windy and the waves are crazy but being over here it's it's calm it's a lot warmer because there's no Breeze and it's sunnier now over here as you can tell I can't even open my eyes maybe from the salt water but yeah it's it's very nice over here we're enjoying it so we just left the beach and we walked a little bit further up and we came to the spot that we kind of skipped on the way to the beach and there are so many sea turtles here it's crazy I don't know if it's because the waves are so strong they kind of got pushed into this little Bay here and they're trying to fight their way out but they keep poking their heads up and it's so cool we're the only ones standing over here right now there's probably like honestly 30 plus turtles in this little Bay Area and oh it's so cool I can stand here and watch them all day they just keep thinking their little heads up to say hello oh they're getting out there now look at them go there they go so after an awesome day at Tortuga Bay we decided to come back to the little beach we found yesterday and just kind of hang out we actually have the beach all to ourselves right now so it's super peaceful yeah it's kind of crazy compared to yesterday because it was really busy here I think it's because it's a little bit more overcast a little bit chillier today so not as many people out enjoying the beach but it's still absolutely beautiful to come and just sit here and just look out at the water yeah we had like I said we had a blast at Tortuga Bay seeing the sea turtles was amazing seeing them poke their heads up over the water was super funny seeing all the birds all the iguanas just everything it was just a beautiful day yeah I think it was just a little taste of what's to come but we could not be more excited to start our cruise throughout the Galapagos tomorrow is the day that we're jumping on board so if you are interested in seeing what that's like and everything like that please make sure you like And subscribe it helps us out and make sure to get notified of when that next video drops then you'll be able to see our luxury ship that we're going to be on because we scored eight killer deal spoiler alert we got half off so be sure to stay tuned for that we'll explain exactly how we got that really great deal but until our next video we'll see you guys on the road [Music]

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Length: 14min 41sec (881 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 08 2022