Book It on the Spot - And Save! Part III: A Gal pagos Cruise
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, December, 2000 by Jason Cochran and Tom Andre
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Sunset at the lookout on Bartolom, Island, and it's business as usual in the Gal pagos: Squadrons of blue-footed boobies dive-bomb the Pacific's azure waters, plummeting headfirst in rapid succession in search of an evening meal. An hour ago, our group of seven tourists and a guide watched six stealthy sharks and an eagle ray prowling the surf. Earlier, we clambered over the cinders of a black lava field, then snorkeled off a powdery white beach accompanied by penguins, nosy sea lions, and marine iguanas as wizened as shrunken Godzillas.
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It's a typical afternoon of a seven-night cruise that will take us to 11 islands. We're on the equator, 600 miles west of Ecuador on mainland South America. This is budget travel in the Gal pagos Islands. Not bad for something that costs you $65 per day, and not too different from the cruises ...
