Users of the web giant’s Google Street View program will be able to take a panoramic tour of the island – both above and below the waterline. In this May 2013 photo provided by Google, Daniel Orellana ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

The remote Galápagos Islands of the Pacific, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have no historic monuments, only a handful of human settlements and the barest smattering of amenities such as ...

A cruise is one of the best ways to see all that this remote Ecuadorian archipelago has to offer. Karen Catchpole is an award-winning travel journalist from the U.S. She uses more than 15 years of ...

This heat map produced through ESA's Medspiration project shows the sea surface temperatures around Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island in the Pacific Ocean for March 18, 2007. Galapagos Islands and ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Visitors can wander through the escalecia forest, take in scenic views and observe birds, including ...

Many islands are formed by millions of years of successive volcanic eruptions in the ocean. Often times these eruptions create stunning and exotic islands such as Tahiti, Fiji, and Hawaii. Every year, ...

SAN CRISTOBAL ISLAND, Galapagos (AP) — Five months into the pandemic, things were getting desperate for Robin Betancourt, The tourists he depended upon as a boat captain were unable to visit the ...

Galápagos National Park and the marine reserve protecting the islands’ surrounding waters welcome 300,000 visitors a year and support sustainable fisheries and tourism jobs for about 30,000 residents.