For a generation of teenagers brought up on a TV diet of Sir David Attenborough and with conservation on every geography and biology syllabus, it is no surprise that along with the African safari, the Galápagos is one of c+l’s most popular family trips.
I’m not sure as an adult without children that I would have put it on a short-list of my personal ‘must see’ destinations – I find natural history endlessly fascinating but I am not a huge fan of ocean going boats – give me terra firma or, at the very least, a flat river over the ocean waves. I was also unsure of a week aboard a ten cabin yacht with eight of those cabins taken by goodness knows who.