Day | Visitor Site |
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Friday | AM - Arrive to Baltra airport |
PM - El Chato & Santa Cruz Highlands (Santa Cruz) | |
Saturday | AM - Las Tintoreras (Isabela) |
PM - Wetlands & Muro de las Lagrimas (Isabela) | |
Sunday | AM - Punta Moreno (Isabela) |
PM - Elizabeth Bay (Isabela) | |
Monday | AM - Urbina Bay (Isabela) |
PM - Punta Espinoza (Fernandina) | |
Tuesday | AM - Puerto Egas (Santiago) |
PM - Rabida | |
Wednesday | AM - Las Bachas (Santa Cruz) |
Transfer to the Airport |
Day 1 – Santa Cruz Island
Pm: El Chato is a reserve in the highlands of Santa Cruz where giant tortoises can be observed in the wild. After this visit the Pit Craters, created as a result of the collapse or sinking of surface materials into cracks or manholes, is the next attraction.
Day 2 – Isabela Island
Am: Las Tintoreras. This islet has a small bay of completely calm and cristal clear turquoise waters, where sea lions, sea turtles, marine iguanas and rays can be spotted. The Arnaldo Tupiza breeding center is the home to a total of 330 juvenile and adult tortoises. This rearing center provides the visitor with another opportunity to enjoy the gentle giants of the Galapagos.
Pm: Humedales is a complex of trails that include a lot of beautiful sites with spectacular sceneries. The day will be completed with a visit to Muro de las Lagrimas. This wall was erected by convicts in the first half of this century when that area served as a penal colony.
Day 3 – Isabela Island
Am: Moreno Point’s main attraction is the coastal and inland lagoons amid black lava flows where also several species of birds nests.
Pm: Elizabeth Bay, the home to a small colony of penguins living on series of small rocky islets, will be visited by a dingy.
Day 4 – Isabela Island & Fernandina
Am: During a visit at Urbina Bay you can see large colored land iguanas and the possibility of seeing giant turtles, flightless cormorants, blue-footed boobies, penguins and marine iguanas is excellent.
Pm: Espinoza Point is a place famous for its large colonies of marine iguanas and as the habitat of unique species like the flightless cormorant, Galapagos penguin, Galapagos hawk, and Galapagos snake.
Day 5 – Santiago & Rabida Island
Am: A visit to Egas Port begins with a wet landing on the dark sand beaches of James Bay and a walk along the rocky coast giving the opportunity to view some of the Galapagos Island’s best tide pools. Sponges, snails, hermit crabs, barnacles and fish including the endemic four-eyed blenny can be seen. The walk also presents visitors with a variety of shore birds, marine iguanas, sally light foot crabs and sea lions.
Pm: Rabida Island its main attraction is the red sand beach, scenery, aside from the vegetation of the arid zone and the presence of native and endemic species.
Day 6 – Santa Cruz Island
Am: Visit to Bachas Beach showing one of the main nesting sites of sea turtles on Santa Cruz. It is a good place to see flamingos, as well as migratory and aquatic birds.
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