Visiting Charles Darwin’s Galapagos Islands
2009 celebrates both the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his seminal work ‘Origin of the Species’, with this in mind why not take a holiday to the Galapagos and visit the islands that first inspired him Charles Darwin first came across the Galapagos Islands in 1835, when returning home from an educational visit to South America where he had been collecting animals and fossils and studying the geology of the region He spent five weeks studying the flora and the fauna of the region, but it was the giant tortoises that particularly attracted his attention…

