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Highlights
  • Explore Bartolome, Santa Fe, Seymour Norte, or Plazas Island
  • Stay on Santa Cruz Island, your homebase for the duration of this trip
  • Snorkel with fish, rays, sea turtles, & sea lions
  • View giant Galapagos tortoises as they roam, graze, and sleep
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Trip Type:
  • Independent
Activity Level: Relaxed
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Day 1: Arrive Quito

Spend your first night in Quito exploring the city on your own.

Day 2: Fly Galapagos | Santa Cruz Island

This morning, catch a flight from Quito to the Galapagos. Arrive Baltra Island, meet your guide and transfer to Santa Cruz Island. Check in to your hotel in Puerto Ayora and enjoy a free afternoon to explore the island on your own!

Day 3: Island Exploration

  • Hotel
  • 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch
After breakfast, you will be transferred from the lodge to a yacht that will take you to one of the following islands: Bartolome, Santa Fe, Seymour, or Plazas.  Enjoy a full day of exploration that allows you to get to know the island, its wildlife inhabitants, and its unique landscape!

You will have the opportunity to snorkel with sea turtles, sharks, tropical fish, sea lions, and many other marine species specific to the island which you are visiting. This day will also allow plenty of time to hike among the wildlife, enjoy beautiful scenery, and lounge on the beach.

Day 4: Isabela Island

  • Hotel
  • 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch
After breakfast, board a yacht to Isabela Island! Upon arriving, you will first visit the Giant Tortoise Breeding Center where you will observe these gentle giants.  You will learn about the process of breeding and raising teh giant tortoises.  After lunch and some time to enjoy the beautiful beaches of Isabela and a flamingo lagoon, the journey continues to Tintoreras Islet.  Watch sea lions, tortoises, marine iguanas, sharks, and rays from the calm turquoise waters of the bay. This relaxing area is the perfect place to end your day on Isabela Island.

Day 5: Island Exploration

  • Hotel
  • 1 Breakfast, 1 Lunch
After breakfast, you will be transferred from the lodge to a yacht that will take you to one of the following islands: Bartolome, Santa Fe, Seymour, or Plazas.  Enjoy a full day of exploration that allows you to get to know the island, its wildlife inhabitants, and its unique landscape!

You will have the opportunity to snorkel with sea turtles, sharks, tropical fish, sea lions, and many other marine species specific to the island which you are visiting. This day will also allow plenty of time to hike among the wildlife, enjoy beautiful scenery, and lounge on the beach.

Day 6: Twin Craters | Return Quito

  • 1 Breakfast
This morning you will make a stop to see Twin Craters. These two geological depressions in the middle of a forest of scalesia, (native vegetation), are on the highest point of Santa Cruz Island.  Then, you will return to Baltra and catch your flight back to the mainland. Tonight, enjoy the sights and sounds of Quito -- toast your travels and the remarkable Galapagos Islands!

Day 7: Quito | Return Home

  • 1 Breakfast
Catch your flight home, or with more time, extend your trip to explore the Andean highlands or the Amazon!

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Galapagos Habitat

Galapagos Habitat
Galapagos Habitat
Santa Cruz island is the most important of the inhabitated islands of Galapagos archipelago. Puerto Ayora is the largest town, 15.000 people live and work here mostly in the tourism industry. Built in 1995, the Galapagos Habitat Hotel has a unique architecture design which blends with mangrove forest and seafront, its location allows you to observe the mangrove ecosystem.
Galapagos Habitat
Galapagos Habitat
Galapagos Habitat

Dates & Prices

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$2,881

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Based on Superior Mangrove View rooms at Aventura Lodge. Shorter itineraries available. Please contact us for alternative options.

Please note: For departures between December 15 - January 5, internal flights must be paid at the time of booking.
Included
  • 6 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 4 Dinners
  • 6 Nights Accommodations
  • Accommodations as listed
  • Meals as listed
  • Ground transportation as listed
  • Professional, bilingual guide service as listed
  • Excursions and activities as listed
  • Gear Rental: Snorkeling Gear
  • INGALA Transit Control Card
Excluded
  • Gratuities
  • Travel Insurance
  • Personal Expenses
  • Flight costs (please request a quote)
  • Additional excursions during free time
  • Galapagos Park Entrance Fee: $100 per adult, $50 per child under 12
  • Internal Flights: Mainland Ecuador - Galapagos - Mainland Ecuador: $475-675

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