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Happy Holidays Wish you your Surtrek team !!

We are thrilled to be back on the roads of South America!As we slowly restart operations with our first successful trips, it's hard to feel more than gratitude, for you, our fellow travelers, and for the many Surtrekers who have worked so hard to make this restart a reality. We know that we are not out of the woods yet. Care, hard work, and a spirit of optimism are still needed if we are to stay the course.But for now, let's celebrate what we've accomplished.
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Best Time To Dive in the Galapagos Islands

Diving is great year-round in the Galapagos. The wet/warm season, between December to June, is considered by many the best time to scuba dive Galapagos. This is because there is calmer, warmer water and better visibility. This is also the season to see manta rays and hammerhead sharks. This time of year brings an average air temperature of 86 degrees and average water temperature of 70-75 degrees.

However, others (especially advanced divers) will dispute that the dry/cool season, from July to November, is the best time to dive. This is a very popular time because you can see whale sharks, one of the most majestic creatures of the sea. This time brings chillier water and choppier seas, with average air temps of 70 degrees and water temps between 62-68 degrees.

The Atacama Desert

is the driest nonpolar desert in the world, as well as the only true desert to receive less precipitation than the polar deserts and the largest fog desert in the world. Both regions have been used as experimentation sites on Earth for Mars expedition simulations. According to estimates, the Atacama Desert occupies 105,000 km2 (41,000 sq mi), or 128,000 km2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included. Most of the desert is composed of stony terrain, salt lakes (salares), sand, and felsic lava that flows towards the Andes.

The desert owes its extreme aridity to a constant temperature inversion due to the cool north-flowing Humboldt ocean current and to the presence of the strong Pacific anticyclone.[8] The aridest region of the Atacama Desert is situated between two mountain chains (the Andes and the Chilean Coast Range) of sufficient height to prevent moisture advection from either the Pacific or the Atlantic Ocean, a two-sided rain shadow.
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G A L A P A G O S

The Galapagos Islands are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean located almost 1000 km off the coast of Ecuador. It is made up of thirteen large islands with an area greater than 10 km², nine medium islands with a surface area of ​​1 km² to 10 km² and another 107 islets of small size.
The Galapagos Islands are the second largest marine reserve on the planet they were declared a World Heritage Site in 1978 by UNESCO.

The archipelago's main source of income is tourism and receives 200,000 tourists a year. Sustainable tourism has also been developed in order to preserve the species. The region was the habitat of Lonesome George, the last specimen of the Pinta giant tortoise species, extinct on June 24, 2012.The islands are also the habitat of species such as sea turtles, dolphins, sharks, hammerhead sharks, whales, reefs of coral, frigates, iguanas, lizards, cormorants, albatrosses, sea lions and penguins.

The Galapagos are known for their numerous endemic species and for the studies of Charles Darwin that led him to establish his theory of evolution through natural selection.