LATIN AMERICA U I S E C R


ADDED VALUE


Inject extra excitement into a client’s South American cruise by packaging it up with a once-in-a-lifetime add-on


ons you can package up with a cruise to give clients a once-in-a-lifetime holiday.


I GALAPAGOS


Could Charles Darwin have guessed that a group of islands off the coast of South America he visited almost 180 years ago would one day become one of the most-prized destinations in any traveller’s portfolio? The Galapagos, an


archipelago of some 21 islands almost 600 miles west of Ecuador, are famous for their abundance of wildlife – much of it indigenous – with no fear of humans because there are no predators. As a result, visitors can get close to iguanas and sea lions, swim with penguins, walk among the giant tortoises and blue-footed booby birds and, chances are, animals won’t even notice them. Although there are a few


hotels in the Galapagos, a cruise that visits a couple of islands, beaches or bays each day is much the best way to see the islands and learn how the animals and birds on each have evolved – the point Darwin noted and which sowed the seeds for The Origin of Species, published in 1859.


f clients are flying all the way to Latin America, they might as well make the most of it and there are plenty of iconic add-


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