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Thousands of years of isolation have gifted the Galápagos Islands with many plants and animals that exist only here. Cacti that grow in lava fields, five-hundred-pound turtles celebrating their two-hundredth birthdays, iguanas that dine in the sea, and blue-footed boobies who think nothing of nesting in the middle of your footpath are unique treasures. Add in hills of mossy velvet in the lush highlands and a marine reserve at sea level that is one of the largest in the world, and you have a place that is like nowhere else on Earth.

British naturalist Charles Darwin once chose to come to these oceanic volcanic peaks. In 1835, he spent five weeks here searching for evidence that in order to survive, species must physically and behaviorally adjust to changes in their environment. He found that evidence.

When you travel to the Galápagos Islands, you’ll find your own proof of change — and most of those transformations will occur inside of you. Once you bike and hike amid volcano-studded highlands and traditional villages and rub shoulders with indigenous Otavaleños, you’ll discover new worlds of geology, topography, local crafts, and folkloric music. Snorkel the famed marine reserve, and you’ll meet sea life you didn’t know existed. Sail from island to island, and you’ll step foot onto a truly pristine beach for the first time. Take a trek in the Andres, and you’ll positively come to understand the meaning of the adjective snowcapped when it comes to mountains. Watch the sun drop into the Pacific Ocean from your beachside lodge, and you’ll find yourself pondering relative times and speeds: This young archipelago is moving south and east at more than 2.5 inches per year. Over a million years, this amounts to more than thirty-nine miles of movement, a shift of enormous proportions when you consider that the estimated age of the Earth is 4.6 billion years.

On his trip to the Galápagos, Charles Darwin formulated his version of natural selection. By choosing to see the Galápagos Islands for yourself, you’ve made a natural selection of your own.

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