December 30, 2024
Isla de la Plata, Ecuador ( some translate to silver or birdshit island )
Booking a fantastic trip to the Galapagos Islands takes time and lots of coordination. Christmas weeks are also premium time and I was late to the game, for doing it on a live aboard boat. The ones I am interested in book a year out - so I will do this in the near future. Isla de la Plata, provided me with a little taste at a really good price point. We were part of a small charter boat that took about an hour to get out to Machalilla National Park
on the Isla. The island is uninhabited and features beaches, headlands and shrubland. It has many marine birds, blue footed and masked boobies, Galapagos' albatrosses and frigates. Trails run from Drake Bay to sheer clifftops overlooking water that attracts manta rays and humpback whales. There was really good snorkeling in Bay.
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We had some really good meals in Bangkok! There was so much to choose from. There seems to be restaurants and hotels everywhere you look. You also can't judge a place from street level, because so many are on roof decks. Here's some of our favorites!
I've been looking forward to exploring Bangkok, as it has always sounded so exotic to me. My first impressions - big sprawling City, highways just like USA, lots of traffic, it's hot and they really like their King. His picture and statues are Everywhere! The architecture of the skyline is nothing special, until you start noticing all the gold, stone, carvings and opulence of the Temples and The Grand Palace is wow so over the top bedazzled!
I really enjoyed my first trip to Thailand! On our final morning here we went to try breakfast at this spot, down the road, we had been hearing rave reviews on, King Of Bread . The hype was correct, the breakfast was delicious and they had some unique choices. I had eggs benedict on a croissant, in lieu of the standard english muffin and Bosco had it on Milk Bread, which was equally tasty.