The Galapagos Islands are amazing.  I spent a week sailing around the islands, snorkelling and hiking around the islands watching the wildlife.  The wildlife is stunning and mostly ignores humans so you can swim with the sea lions and stand and watched (and be watched by) a blue-footed booby.  I loved the time I spent on the islands and would love to go back some day.  Before going to the islands I spent some time in Quito, Ecuador (and on the way the aquarium in Atlanta) where I got to stand on the Equator, both at the government monument and the local museum, that’s actually on the equator - the government monument is in slightly the wrong place.

Read about my experiences in the Galapagos Islands.