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Skorpios Patagonia Cruise

Pura — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:10:24 +0000

Cruises are not normally our ‘thing’ here at Pura. The sort of holiday which separates visitors from the countries they visit just doesn’t chime with our basic ethos. Really what we don’t go near are big ship cruises, there are places where boat travel is the best way to go. The Galapagos Islands and Antarctica [...]

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Chile’s Carretera Austral

Pura — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:49:45 +0000

Chile is such a long country that it’s almost inevitable that there are bits of it which get a bit overlooked. Take northern Patagonia, it's only got one road and even that's just a bumpy dirt road wedged in between the high peaks of the Andes and the icy waters of the fjords.

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Discounted Galapagos Cruise on Evolution

Pura — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:11:31 +0000

Discounts for a Galapagos cruise on board Evolution don’t come along often but when they do, they are very, very attractive. How does a 44% discount sound? Put another way, a price reduction of us$4,355. If you can set sail for 7 nights on the 27th August, 10th September or 24th September 2011 then you [...]

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Ecuador and Galapagos last minute deal La Pinta Yacht and Hotel Plaza Grande

Pura — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:54:41 +0000

This just in from Ecuador, it’s not exactly a lot of notice but if you can make it, it’s a very, very comfortable trip and a good price! ECUADOR & GALAPAGOS ISLANDS LAST MINUTE DEAL 8 DAYS/7 NIGHTS LA PINTA YACHT & HOTEL PLAZA GRANDE ITINERARY DAY BY DAY JUN 22 – Quito Escorted transfer [...]

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Evolution Galapagos Cruise Special Offer

Pura — Wed, 25 May 2011 08:54:42 +0000

Evolution, one of the loveliest boats in the Galapagos, has a great special offer on for 2011. In fact, there are two great special offers. And we genuinely mean great, these are both great offers with a value of around us$2,000 per person. The price of the boat remains the same, you can see Evolution’s [...]

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Galapagos Fuel Cost Increase

Pura — Tue, 24 May 2011 10:16:25 +0000

The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has issued Executive Decree 736, published 6th May 2011, which sets new prices for the diesel fuel used by all tourist vessels operating in the Galapagos Islands. The Government Fuel Tax for Galapagos was first applied in June 2008 with some boats absorbing the costs, others passing it on [...]

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Antarctica Review

Pura — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:33:15 +0000

This is some really interesting feedback from a recent client who travelled on board Antarctic Dream for her cruise to the Antarctic Peninsula. I think this gives you a sense of the rough and the smooth of the experience, and hopefully explains why we will not promote the ‘fly cruise’ options now coming on line [...]

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How the Galapagos Islands are formed

Pura — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:02:00 +0000

This is the first of my series of pieces about the Galapagos Islands. Here we start at the very beginning with the geology of the islands… The Galapagos islands are really a series of volcanoes which have been formed by a single hot spot underneath Fernandina Island to the west of the archipelago. That’s a fixed [...]

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Discount Galapagos Cruise 2011

Pura — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:20:18 +0000

Take advantage of some great discounts on a Galapagos Cruise in April 2011. A week long cruise on board Galaven is now available on a 2 for 1 basis. This means that for us2,895 two of you can spend a week cruising the Galapagos Islands in comfort. Galaven is a modern, comfortable 88ft long motor [...]

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The Drake Passage to Antarctica

Sarah — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:20:47 +0000

To get to Antarctica by boat, you have to cross some of the roughest seas in the world and that’s the way it should be. On September 6th 1577 Sir Francis Drake had just cleared the Strait of Magellan on his second circumnavigation of the globe. He was blown south of Cape Horn by a [...]

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