But enough with postcard-like animal pictures from Galapagos. I want to take a moment to talk about how urbanization is changing the face of the island.
Before, you could find mainly simple houses (like this first one on Isabela) and bigger houses made with traditional wood techniques (like this second shot on San Cristobal). Today they have been almost completely replaced by brick houses, with a lot of them having one or two completed storey and an additional one still half-built. The small towns on the main islands are growing vertically
Photo taken at: Galapagos Islands