http://www.adventure-associates.com en Website News SAT, 4 Feb 2012 11:47:00 -0500 SAT, 4 Feb 2012 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=717 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=717 News Galapagos lives up to its fame of being a “living laboratory of nature”... The Scientific world was pleasantly rocked this week when Galapagos National Park authorities and Yale University Researchers announced the discovery of positive DNA tests, proving that more than 80 individuals among a sampling of 1600 giant tortoises from the remote and harsh Volcano Wolf, on the northern tip of Isabela Island, definitely were direct offspring of the “Chelonidis elephantopus” species, long ago thought to have been exterminated by pirates and whalers, who extinguished them from their original home, Floreana Island, over 150 years ago. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=711 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=711 News The beginning of the New Year, which coincides with the opening of the area’s peak tourism season, saw many parts of southern Chile, including the legendary Patagonian region, bracing against a series of large-scale wildfires. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=707 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=707 News The beginning of each New Year marks the time for a week of one of the most colorful celebrations, recognized as the largest and most important of their kind in Southern Colombia: The “Blacks and Whites Carnival”. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=706 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=706 News The Ecuadorian tourism authorities and private entrepreneurs are looking at 2012 with optimism, as the forecast for the New Year looks promising in many ways. Ecuador will increase its investment in national and international tourism promotion, to benefit from the steadily increasing prestige which the country has been earning as a new, varied, exotic, secure, amazing and friendly tourism Destination. http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=704 http://www.adventure-associates.com/page_content.asp?id_page=704 News Peru has many reasons to be proud of in the world of tourism and travel: its numerous and varied, natural and cultural attractions; a solid reputation as an outstanding, safe and worthy travel destination; the growing fame of Peruvian gastronomy and a well positioned international image, are just some of the reasons to be proud of.