6-Day Galapagos Islands Tour with San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz and Floreana

• Meet your tour guide at San Cristóbal Airport, where you will be picked up and taken to the hotel. After lunch with your guide, visit the Interpretation Center, where you will learn about the formation, colonization, and current situation of the islands.
• Follow the trail to Frigatebird Hill, a viewpoint with beautiful views of the island. You will also be able to snorkel in the shallow waters of Tijeretas Bay or Carola Beach. According to the tide, your guide will take you to the best spot, where you may see sea lions, various tropical fish, and turtles.
• Enjoy a small hike that finishes at Carola Beach, from where you will return to the hotel.

Overnight in San Cristóbal.

Meal: L

• Have breakfast at the hotel. You will have the option of joining one of these two excursions, so please let us know your choice when booking your trip.
• Option one: Lobos Island - hiking. After a 30-minute boat ride from the port, you will arrive at Lobos Island, which, as its name suggests, is home to a large sea lion colony. But that is not the only attraction on this half-day tour. While hiking and snorkelling on the island, you may also spot blue-footed boobies, marine iguanas, and frigate birds. During the snorkelling session, you can often see marine iguanas feeding, as well as rays and turtles on the sandy bottom that separates Lobos Island from the mainland of San Cristóbal. This tour includes a stop at Playa Ochoa.
• Option two: Kicker Rock - snorkelling. Visit the famous Kicker Rock (León Dormido), a volcanic formation rising from the ocean. Here, you will be able to snorkel with sharks, rays, turtles, and, if you are lucky, even hammerhead sharks. After lunch on the boat, continue to a beautiful, pristine beach, where you will have time to relax before returning to the port in the afternoon.

Overnight in San Cristóbal.

Meals: B, L

• Have breakfast at the hotel. Meet your guide at 7:45 am at Puerto Baquerizo port and get ready for a 2-hour navigation to Española Island. Your first stop will be Punta Suarez, where you will begin a 2-hour hike. Along the way, you will see some of the Galapagos' most iconic wildlife, including the Galapagos albatross (only during mating season, from March to January), blue-footed boobies, Nazca boobies, and colorful Española iguanas. Other wildlife that may be seen includes waved albatrosses, red-billed tropicbirds, Galapagos hawks, Sally Lightfoot crabs, sea lions, sea turtles, hammerhead sharks, and rays.
• Return to the boat and continue towards Gardner Islet. There, you will get your snorkelling equipment ready - mask and fins - to explore the waters of Gardner Bay. Swim alongside sea lion pups, Galapagos sharks, colorful fish, and marine iguanas. A box lunch will be served on the boat at 14:00, as these parts of the islands are uninhabited. Return to Puerto Baquerizo is scheduled for around 17:00.

Overnight in San Cristóbal.

Meals: B, L

• Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. At 6:30, your guide will pick you up and take you to the harbor for the 7:00 speedboat to Santa Cruz, an approximately 2-hour ride. A local guide will receive you at the harbour.
• Drive up to a ranch in the highlands to see giant tortoises in their native environment. After lunch, stop at the Charles Darwin Research Station, an international scientific research station located on the outskirts of Puerto Ayora. You will visit the visitor center to learn about the geology, climate, natural history, and conservation of the Galapagos Islands.

Overnight in Santa Cruz.

Meals: B, L

• Have breakfast at the hotel.
• Transfer to Puerto Velasco Ibarra, near Black Beach. Then board a typical open truck, or Chiva, and head into the highlands.
• Pass by the impressive Cerro Pajas volcanic hill and the Scalesia Forest, where you may look for the medium tree finch, a species unique to this island.
• Arrive at the Asilo de la Paz visitor site, then hike for 15 minutes to reach the giant tortoise reintroduction area on Floreana Island.
• Continue hiking to the freshwater source, which was the reason for the first human settlement on the island. You will also discover the nearby caves once used by early settlers and pirates. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant.
• Spend time on the beach enjoying swimming and snorkelling with sea lions, green sea turtles, and a variety of fish.

Overnight in Santa Cruz.

Meals: B, L

• Have breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Baltra Airport to board your flight to Quito or Guayaquil.

Meal: B