You can work for one of the worlds biggest investment banks and still have no fucking common sense – monkeys are not hard to train for a modern office. I sat next to two finance grads near the back of the plane, the male gets the idiot of the year award for me, we landed in Guayaquil for our stop over, at the Simon Bolivar airport, he looked out the window and asked his friend and myself if we were now in Bolivia.

I could have gone terrorist and killed everyone on the plane eh? :p Anyway I flew return with Aerogal and paid about $440 USD for the flights, with a stopover in Guayaquil. Forgot the Swiss Army Knife someone special had given to me in my carry on backpack again but somehow the guy watching the xray machine didn’t notice it, second time I have avoided, very luckily, losing this to an airport garbage bin. I got to the airport and paid my $100 park entry fee as well as a $10 airport fee, what for I do not know, but they check Galapagos Island visitors separately to other people using the airport. This, and Easter Island, are probably the only two times I will do this.ĭay 164: Isla San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands day 1: I decided to skip ahead five or so months and post about my Galapagos experience as it may benefit other travellers looking to visit the islands on a budget, as I did.

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