Isabela Island (Galápagos)
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- Best time to go
- December to May for calm, warm seas; June to November for cooler water and abundant marine life
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The largest island in the Galápagos archipelago, shaped like a seahorse and built from a chain of six shield volcanoes. Visitors hike the vast Sierra Negra caldera, snorkel with penguins near Las Tintoreras, and spot flamingos in brackish lagoons behind the beach town of Puerto Villamil.
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