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fascination of the Galapagos Islands is that each island is so
different. Each has its own
wildlife, and will change depending on the time of the year
and climatic conditions. For more details of variations during the
year, see Galapagos calendar. One
has to bear this in mind when visiting each island. Birds that nested
on one island the year before, might have moved to another island
finding better conditions there. Or the waved albatross who - just
when you came to see them - may have already left their nesting
site on Hood Island a few weeks earlier than expected!
But
in return, one experiences the living laboratory of evolution
at work. Most of the islands have only official visitor sites, established
by the Galapagos National Park Service in conjunction with the Charles
Darwin Research Station. These are areas where, accompanied by a
licensed guide, tourists may enter. Visitor sites are typically
delimited by a series of trail markers.
From
time to time some visitor sites get closed, new ones opened. A typical
Galapagos Islands tour lasts one week. The islands of Pinzon, North
Plaza and Daphne Minor are off-limit islands. (Islands
details)
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