Galapagos Adventure - Santa Cruz, Los Gemelos pit craters

Pit Crater wall (sz)

Back on the bus, we drove a short distance further to a hike around a unique area spotted with deep, steep-sided volcanic pit craters called Los Gemelos. The trail we took, which was quite rugged, wound past a series of these craters, shrouded beguilingly in mist (the day never really turned fully rainy).

Foliage - Scalesia forest (ps)

We were surrounded by a verdant forest full of bromeliads, ferns, mosses, and huge dew-bejeweled spider webs, as well as yellow-flowered trees called Scalesias. Many, many of Darwin's finches flitted about.