Machu Picchu to the Galapagos
Experience South America’s treasures in Machu Picchu’s enigmatic ruins and the fascinating Galapagos Islands.
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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