Peace Haven

Awesome place in planet.

Enjoyed the hike, stories of crazy pirates, views, and tortoises.

This is the starting point of some very good excursions with a lot of variety and highly recommended. Along the way you can see the Galapagos tortoises everywhere (introduced, because on this island they have been extinct for a long time). The landscapes from the top of the island, where you can see the difference between the humid east and the dry west, which are totally different in their vegetation, especially. You can also find the only source of drinking water on the island, and the weirdest is the almost mysterious geology of the area (some possibly man-made).

Beyond the legends of the Europeans who lived in the caves of the hill such as the ineffable Dr. Ritter, Asilo de la Paz, is fundamental for the survival of the current Floreans because in this high area is the only natural source of fresh water of the island. Here you can visit the galapaguera that does not host endemic Floreana specimens for being extinct. I recommend the walk along the eight-kilometer weighted path descending from Asilo de la Paz to Puerto Velasco Ibarra, passing through the local farms, the Alieri hill and its viewpoint. I add that on the new visit I made to Asilo de la Paz (June 2017), I had the pleasant surprise of finding numbered seven-year-old baby turtles (brought from the National Park hatcheries and from the Charles Darwin Station on Santa Cruz Island) with the In order that in the future they cross each other to recover the endemic turtle of Floreana Island, then, they could have 90% or more of the genes of the species that became extinct in the jaws of the pirates.