Our guides have a few horror stories from what they call «checkbox tourists» — those who have heard it's really
cool to come to the Galapagos, and are here to check it off the list — who had the trip booked through a travel agent or other third party, showed up without learning what they were getting in to, and would even ask the guides to stop giving them so much interpretive
information, because they just didn't care what that bird was, or how many eggs another
animal typically lays.