Travel to the Galapagos with Luxury ResortTravel to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador can be as spectacular today as it was during Darwin’s 1835 voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle for one reason: Conservation. The Galapagos Islands are as untouched now as they were then, but now the islands bring a precious touch of luxury offered through land-based stays at Pikaia Lodge.

Pikaia Lodge opens this fall in the Galapagos on a re-naturalized former cattle ranch on the island of Santa Cruz, some 600 miles west of Ecuador in the southern Pacific. And with this opening comes Ecuador’s only truly authentic eco-lodge, although a particularly deluxe one as a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World and the Kurtz-Ahlers collection of rarefied resorts in unusual places.       READ MORE…