A barrel with cards or travel memories. In the Galapagos, correspondence takes your time. If you want to send a letter freely to any side of the world, you have to wait for the gesture of a godly tourist.
Galapagos belong to Ecuador and are known to fans of nature as a great place to spend a vacation, with their popular sea lions and penguins, as well as breathtaking landscapes, constitute some of the biggest attractions.
Regarding the media, there are less… conventional aspects in this American archipelago.
The “technology” was created by sailors in the eighteenth century who missed home, says A. Decided Put a barrel on Florian island where they left the correspondence, which was later delivered by crews of ships of passage.
Captain David Porter was already reporting in 1813 that he had spotted a ship’s crew member to return with papers “taken from a box that found a pot, on which there was a black tablet with the inscription Hathaway’s Postaffice”.
To this day, the simple wooden barrel is covered with messages and memories left by travelers, remembering a kind of ornate-night box. Those who pass by take the opportunity to decorate the box with drawings or random objects found in the sea.
It remains a symbol of the island, but also a place where tourists still pass to bring some correspondence to their home countries.
If you ever visit the Galapagos, don’t forget to search this unusual mail: you can make someone happy and bring a letter home.
