Experience South America’s treasures in Machu Picchu’s enigmatic ruins and the fascinating Galapagos Islands.
Day 1: Depart U.S. for Lima, Peru
Day 2: Lima
Day 3: Lima | Cuzco | Sacred Valley
Day 4: Sacred Valley
Day 5: Sacred Valley | Machu Picchu | Aguas Calientes
Day 6: Machu Picchu | Cuzco
Day 7: Cuzco
Day 8: Cuzco | Lima
Day 9: Lima | Quito, Ecuador
Day 10: Quito | Baltra | Santa Cruz Island
Day 11: North Seymour Island | Bachas Beach
Day 12: South Plaza Island | Punta Carrion
Day 13: Santa Cruz Island
Day 14: Santa Cruz Island | Baltra | Quito
Day 15: Quito | Depart for U.S.
For 20 years I was an academic advisor in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. For 12 years, I supervised the advising given to students preparing for careers in health care (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, PA, optometry, etc.) and law, while also advising those students.
As an anthropologist, I was fascinated by the cultural, social, and historical intersections among human populations. Machu Picchu and the Incans who built it represent a particularly vibrant and important instance of that kind of development, and by learning more about them we can learn something important about humans in general. Visiting the Galápagos has been a dream for much of my life, and it’s particularly important to do so now, when climate change represents such a threat to such ecosystems.
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