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Experience more than just the highlights of the Galapagos' eastern islands with this 8-day adventure. Teeming with wildlife, volcanic wonders, and breathtaking landscapes, the eastern islands are an excellent place to spend a vacation! Snorkel, kayak, and become acquainted with the archipelago's endemic wildlife species including spotting sea lions, flamingos, sharks, frigatebirds and a spectrum of species unique to the Galapagos.
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Highlights
  • Discover Black Turtle Cove, a series of mangrove-surrounded coves and islets
  • Admire the archipelago's unique wildlife including frigate birds & boobies
  • Explore Santa Cruz Highlands for a visit to the native forests
  • Visit the Interpretation Center of Human History of the Islands
Places Visited
Activity Level: Variable
Activity options vary depending on destination and operator. Activity level is determined by the range and intensity of activities you choose to participate in. Discuss with your Trip Planner which options are best for you.
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Day 1: Baltra | Black Turtle Cove

Flight from mainland Ecuador (Quito or Guayaquil) to Baltra. Your guide meets you at arrivals gate, your crew takes care of your luggage. Your guide conducts you to a bus and after a short 5-kilometer ride to the pier; you board the Yacht immediately.

As the crew weighs anchor, enjoy the first orientation and a light snack. After navigating, disembark on Black Turtle Cove, a series of mangrove-surrounded coves and islets; here you can observe white-tipped sharks, marine turtles, spotted eagle rays, and yellow cownosed rays. In the evening you have an orientation about the Galapagos Islands in general: their origin and evolution. Welcome cocktail with the entire crew, and dinner
Activities: Panga Ride

Day 2: Prince Phillip's Steps | Darwin Bay

After breakfast, take a panga ride and you make a dry landing on Prince Phillips’s Steps (Barranco), you walk and observe the interesting lives of the birds here. Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

Later in the afternoon, you make a wet landing on Darwin Bay to walk and observe frigate birds, herons, mockingbirds, boobies, shorebirds, turtles, marine iguanas. Dinner on the Yacht, and then your orientation about conservation efforts made to protect the Islands.
Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

Day 3: Rabida | Dragon Hill

After breakfast, make a wet landing on Rabida, to walk and observe marine iguanas and sea lions, pelicans, blue-footed boobies, masked boobies and brown pelicans. Walk and arrive at a small saltwater lagoon where you can see pink flamingos. Return to the Yacht for lunch.
Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

Later in the afternoon you make a dry landing on Dragon Hill, where you can see land iguanas; you walk to a hypersalinic lagoon (saltier than the ocean), where you can observe flamingos, common stilts, pintail ducks and other species of birds. At the end of the afternoon, return to the Yacht for dinner and nightly orientation.
Activities: Snorkel, Walking

Day 4: Interpretation Center Fausto Llerena | Santa Cruz Highlands

After breakfast, you disembark at Puerto Ayora to start the visit to the Interpretation Center Fausto Llerena, then, you will take the bus to the highlands of Santa Cruz Island for a visit to the native forests, you will be delighted with the lunch in the ranch. After lunch, you will visit the twin craters.
Activities: Walking

Return to the Port for a walk through the little town to appreciate various handicrafts. Have a welcome cocktail with the entire crew, and dinner.
Activities: Walking

Day 5: Baroness Point | Post Office Bay | Cormorant Point | Champiom Islet

After breakfast, you make a dry landing, you will continue to the Baroness Point view, named due to the presence of a particular character who lived on Floreana Island, it is the Baroness Eloisa von Wagner, you will enjoy of the beautiful landscape and the ruins of her house. Then, you will continue to Post Office Bay, a historic site that recalls the days of the whalers, who presumably placed a wooden barrel in the 18th century to use it as a post office.
Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

Return to the Yacht for lunch. In the afternoon, make a panga ride on Champion Islet, a small island off the Coast of Floreana Island. The principal attraction of Champion Islet is the nearly extinct Charles (Floreana) Mockingbird.

Visitors can also observe bird species such as Swallow-tailed Gulls, Nazca Boobies or Brown Noddies. It is a great place for snorkeling;  see sea turtles, reef fishes, Galapagos Penguins and white-tipped reef sharks. Next, you make a wet landing on Cormorant Point for a short walk to the Flamingo Lagoon of this island. You then continue the walk until you reach the beach called "La Picona" to see marine turtles and their spawning grounds. Return to the Yacht for dinner and nightly orientation.
Activities: Snorkel, Walking, Panga Ride

Day 6: Suarez Point | Gardner Islet | Osborn Islet | Gardner Bay

After breakfast, make a wet landing on Rabida, to walk and observe marine iguanas and sea lions, pelicans, blue-footed boobies, masked boobies and brown pelicans. Walk and arrive at a small saltwater lagoon where you can see pink flamingos. Return to the Yacht for lunch.
Activities: Walking

Later in the afternoon you make a dry landing on Dragon Hill, where you can see land iguanas; you walk to a hypersalinic lagoon (saltier than the ocean), where you can observe flamingos, common stilts, pintail ducks and other species of birds.  At the end of the afternoon,  return to the Yacht for dinner and nightly orientation.
Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

Day 7: Cerro Brujo | Kicker Rock | B. Moreno Port | Gianni Arismendy Human Interpretation Center

After breakfast, you make a wet landing on Cerro Brujo to walk on a white sand beach and observe sea lions, brown pelicans, marine iguanas, and blue-footed boobies. Optional: time for those who would like to swim, snorkel or Kayak. Then, your experienced Captain sails easily around Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido), a massive tuff-rock that juts abruptly almost 500 feet straight from the ocean. Kicker Rock serves as a nesting place for many seabirds. 
Activities: Snorkel, Kayak, Walking, Panga Ride

In the afternoon, you make a dry landing on San Cristobal port, after a short drive, you arrive at Jacinto Gordillo Interpretation Center where you learn about its reproductive process and the programs to maintain the species. You take the bus back to the port to visit the Interpretation Center of Human History of the Islands; this tour takes you through the geological and human history of the islands and its conservation. You return to the Yacht for dinner, and nightly orientation.
Activities: Walking

Day 8: Mosquera Island | Disembark | Baltra

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After breakfast, you make an early wet landing on Mosquera Islet, a reef of rocks and coral (the result of an uprising) and a great white sand beach and tide pools. You observe colonies of sea lions, brown pelicans, blue-footed boobies and sally light-foot crabs, the contrast between these bright red crabs on top and blue on the bottom and the black lava is stunning.
Activities: Walking

Return to the Yacht for disembarking on the pier at 09:00. Your guide accompanies you on the bus ride directly to the airport.

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$5,338 2-3 travelers
Cabin 3
Cabins 3-6
Cabin size: 12m² 4 lower deck cabins. Equipped with 2 Single Lower Beds (2x1m/each). Each cabin has a Private bathroom (toilet, shower, hair dryer, washbasin, vanity, hot and cold water), Locker and drawers, a Safety box, Air-conditioned, an Electric outlet 110v, and a USB port.
Cabin 7
Cabins 7 & 8
Cabin size: 8.5m² 2 upper deck cabins. Equipped with 1 Double Bed (2x1.40m/each). Each cabin has a Private bathroom (toilet, shower, hair dryer, washbasin, vanity, hot and cold water), Locker and drawers, a Safety box, Air-conditioned, an Electric outlet 110v, and a USB port.
Cabin 10
Cabins 9 & 10
Cabin size: 9.5m² 2 upper deck cabins. Equipped with 2 Single Lower Beds (2x1m/each). Each cabin has a Private bathroom (toilet, shower, hair dryer, washbasin, vanity, hot and cold water), Locker and drawers, a Safety box, Air-conditioned, an Electric outlet 110v, and a USB port.

Notes

Please reserve your wetsuit in advance prior to the trip.

Child Discount

10% discount for children under age 12 at time of Galapagos cruise. Child discounts are conditional and may not apply on certain departures. Please contact us for more information.

Children under 12 may receive discounts on Galapagos flight fares and entrance fees. Contact us for details.
Included
  • 7 Breakfasts, 6 Lunches, 7 Dinners
  • 7 Nights Accommodations
  • Accommodations as listed
  • Ground transportation as listed
  • Activities as listed
  • Meals as listed
  • Access to a 24-7 Emergency line while traveling
  • Bilingual Naturalist Guide 
  • Adventure Life Pre-departure Services and In-Country Assistance (Quito Representative)
  • Transfers and Baggage Handling in the Galapagos
  • Snorkeling and kayaking equipment is included in the cruise cost and available for your use on board.
  • Internal Flights: Mainland Ecuador - Galapagos - Mainland Ecuador
  • Hot drinks (tea, coffee, aromatic waters)
  • Drinking water and iced tea dispenser
Excluded
  • Gratuities
  • Travel Insurance
  • Personal Expenses
  • Flight costs (please request a quote)
  • Additional excursions during free time
  • Fuel and transportation surcharges (when applicable)
  • Galapagos Park Entrance Fee: $200 per adult, $100 per child under 12. Subject to increase by Galapagos Park Service.
  • Wetsuits are not included but are available to rent on board - $35 short and $40 long size for 4-day tours; $40 short and $45 long size for 5-day tours; $45 short and $55 long size for 8-day tours; $70 short and $80 long size for 11-day tours; and $80 short and $90 long size for 15-day tours.
  • All alcoholic & Non-alcoholic drinks
  • Neoprene suits (for rent)

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