One day to go until the Galápagos Islands...

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Quito, Ecuador

I can't believe as I'm writing this, we are off to the Galápagos Islands tomorrow eek! Enough said! Early night for us, as its up at 5am tomorrow.

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