Galapagos Island - Jatun sacha Conservation

October 2013. This time around, I decided to travel 'with purpose' and signed up for a 4 week volunteer position with and organization called Jatun Sacha, on the Galapagos islands. check out details at: jatunsacha.org I worked on various projects, mostly planting, removing invasive species and generally maintaining the site. Volunteers also rotated as kitchen helpers and so we had all our meals together and spent the whole day as a group working, travelling in packed trucks to various sites and trying to entertain ourselves with no internet or TV. Many card games were played. San Cristobal is one of the less developed of the bigger islands, and the banks were not always convenient or even operational, so if you go, I would recommend you bring lots of cash. Ecuador uses American dollars. I would recommend this type of Eco-tourism internship but perhaps it's better in more remote places, where the inflation and tourism aren't as intense. TOP TEN THINGS to miss about Ecuador 1.Serious about napping! 2.impromptu beach soccer 3.The motorbike being used as the family minivan and/or cargo truck 4.Machetes as the catch-all tool for hammering, lawn cutting, trail brazing,or any number of other tasks 5.Buses with flexible stops for pickup/drop-off that give you change 6.Being 5 minutes late, and still waiting around 15 more 7.the many uses of the car horn 8.Ordering Fish and getting Chicken, pretty sure after 2pm there just isnt anymore fish. It's land-fish! 9.Gaining/loosing clothing with each trip to the laundry mat 10.When asking for the time, people looking up at the sun & providing their best estimate