{"id":14055,"date":"2011-05-15T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/the-galapagos-its-not-a-cruise-its-an-expedition-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T02:07:00","slug":"the-galapagos-its-not-a-cruise-its-an-expedition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/05\/the-galapagos-its-not-a-cruise-its-an-expedition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galapagos &#8211; &quot;It&#8217;s not a cruise &#8211; it&#8217;s an expedition&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ21xyAW8N0\/SAW4cNldKXI\/AAAAAAAACzk\/yh79kvYcAJk\/s1600\/Land_Iguana.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJ21xyAW8N0\/SAW4cNldKXI\/AAAAAAAACzk\/yh79kvYcAJk\/s320\/Land_Iguana.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>About a year ago my wife and I decided we&#8217;d really like to visit the Galapagos &#8211; after all it had a fundamental influence on Darwin&#8217;s &#8220;Origin of the Species&#8221; and is home to a wide variety of unique wildlife. As we investigated the idea we decided that since Ecuador and Peru are (relatively) close, it made sense to combine a the Galapagos trip with a tour of Peru.<\/p>\n<p>A Galapagos tour is best done by boat, and we considered a number of options &#8211; small catamaran, sailboat or larger tour ship. Which would be best? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fodors.com\/community\/south-america\/the-galapagos-its-not-a-cruise-its-an-expedition.cfm\">Read Full Report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago my wife and I decided we&#8217;d really like to visit the Galapagos &#8211; after all it had a fundamental influence on Darwin&#8217;s &#8220;Origin of the Species&#8221; and is home to a wide variety of unique wildlife. As we investigated the idea we decided that since Ecuador and Peru are (relatively) close, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}