So back to the honeymoon photos… After Otavalo, Thomas and I headed to the Galapagos. The tour guides met us at the airport, and wisked us off to our first excursion - the highlands of Santa Cruz. We were taken to a giant sinkhole. Honestly, I really don’t remember much about it since I was taking photos of all the finches — little did I know that these would be as common as pigeons around our hotel.

Giant Sink Hole

Finch

Then we went to see the Giant Tortoises. We only saw a handful, but they’re huge. My favorite fact I learned about them was that George Lucas based the design of E.T. after their faces. I can sort of see it.

Thomas gets muddy for a photo

Giant Tortoise

Finally, they took us to our hotel, the Finch Bay Eco Hotel. It’s actually on across a little bay and we had to take a water taxi across. The hotel was very pretty with beach access. The rooms were very comfortable and each had a hammock out on the patio, which was really relaxing.

Boats in Finch Bay

Finch Bay Eco Lodge

I’ve added these and some others from the first day to our Flickr Group:

• Honeymoon - Galapagos