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Flights to Galapagos Islands & Galapagos Islands Airfare

Galapagos Islands Flights & Airfare Overview

There are only two Galapagos Island airports, Baltra Airport (Seymour Airport) and San Cristóbal Airport. The islands are served by TAME. TAME offers daily flights between Quito airport and Guayaquil airport and the Baltra airport in the Galápagos Islands. Flights to the Galápagos are heavily booked.

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Galapagos Islands Description

All of Ecuador is worth exploring, but the Galapagos Islands are a must-see. Officially known as the Archipelago of Colon, the Galapagos sit in the Pacific Ocean, 972 kilometers (604 mi) off the Ecuadorian coast. The islands that make up the Archipelago were forged by hundreds of thousands of years of successive volcanic eruptions that continue today. As Charles Darwin discovered, the Galapagos, having literally risen from the sea, are in a position of near absolute isolation that made them the perfect evolutionary laboratory. In fact, because of its isolation, the Archipelago has more endemic species than any other place on earth.

In the two-hour flight across the one-thousand kilometers of Pacific Ocean from the Ecuadorian mainland to the Galpagos archipelago, visitors can expect to be transported to an environment reminiscent of prehistoric times. Elegant folds and fans of solidified lava, imposing towers of solid rock, and vast expanses of white, red, and green sand provide a hauntingly beautiful landscape. Slate-black marine iguanas announce their presence with a primordial release of salt from their nostrils. Land tortoises (Galapagos, in Spanish) slowly lumber their massive physique from slimy bog to grassy clearing.

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