The day started with a talk on photography using one’s smart phone, quite fitting for the day we had ahead of us. We boarded buses in town and headed for the highlands, visiting first El Trapiche, a traditional farm where we learned to make brown raw sugar, moonshine, coffee, and chocolate. We had the chance of tasting everything, and everything was good.
Afterwards, we headed to Los Gemelos, a pair of spectacular sinkholes surrounded by the last remains of the original Galapagos highlands forest. The plant coverage here is very different from the desertic vegetation we associate with Galapagos.
Later after lunch, we visited Manzanillo, a private tortoise reserve. On our way, we had to literally slalom through a large number of tortoises that were on the road!
