Galápagos

11- or 15-day cruise aboard Tip Top IV. Highlights: From Quito, ECUADOR, fly to Baltra Island/North Seymour, home to blue-footed boobies, frigate birds/tide-pooling on Santiago/marine iguanas on Fernandina/green sea turtles on Floreana/on Santa Cruz, Charles Darwin Research Station/Española, home to albatross, boobies. 11-day land/cruise, $5,500, or 15 days, $6,300. Galápagos Travel (Aptos, CA; 800/969-9014).