http://www.adventure-associates.com en Website News FRI, 30 Jul 2010 11:47:00 -0500 FRI, 30 Jul 2010 11:47:00 -0500 info@adventure-associates.com (Webmaster) Copyright 2009 Adventure Associates http://www.adventure-associates.com/images/logo_main.gif http://www.adventure-associates.com140 40 Adventure Associates: South America and Galapagos Tour Operator Since 1974. Plan your South America trips, Galapagos cruises, luxury tours, sailing and more. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=455 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=455 News The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador have once again received a highly reputed and most significant recognition by being nominated as “World’s Best Islands, 2010”, by the prestigious Travel and Leisure Magazine, considered as a top referent of the international travel industry. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=457 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=457 News Keeping up with ancestral traditions not only maintains a culture’s identity and pride and is always the occasion to celebrate, but it also attracts local, national and international tourists, avid to witness or even be part of colorful and symbol-filled events. This is the case of the “Warichacuy” Festival, celebrated in August of each year, whose main venues are the historic city of Cusco and the imposing esplanade of Sacsayhuaman. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=458 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=458 News Few weeks ago, Argentina took a significant step in order to upgrade the importance of Tourism in the country, as an actual industry which generates rapid economic growth; employment opportunities and sustainable development. For the first time in the country’s history, a specialized Ministry of Tourism, exclusively dedicated to the activity, was created by Presidential Decree. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=456 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=456 News In 1986, National Park wardens found a peculiar variety of land iguana on Volcano Wolf, the northernmost volcano of Isabella Island. These reptiles have a unique pink coloration predominating on their bodies’ skin. At that time, the newly discovered and relatively small population of these iguanas, were considered only a variation, perhaps just an exceptional mutation, of the commonly known species found on the rest of the Archipelago, but limited to this particular area. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=449 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=449 News The Galapagos National Park Service continues to work in various fronts, to accomplish its mission of preserving the unique ecosystems of the famous Archipelago of Ecuador, and a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. During the month of June, a team of 24 Park wardens and officials from the main office in Santa Cruz and the Technical Offices of the Islands of San Cristobal, Isabella and Floreana, spent several days on the southernmost Island of the entire group, Española or Hood Island, with the specific purpose of conducting a special monitoring of the island’s giant tortoises; the waved albatross population and some vegetation species.