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Itinerary Option 2 East Route 8 days

ITINERARY DAY BY DAY:

DAY 1: FRIDAY

AM:  BALTRA AIRPORT TRANSFER TO THE BOAT
You’ll fly from mainland Ecuador (either Quito or Guayaquil) to Baltra with LATAM Airlines, arriving around 09:50 a.m. Your guide will be waiting for you at the arrivals gate, and our crew will handle your luggage. The guide will then escort you to a bus for a brief 5-kilometer ride to the pier, where you’ll promptly board the Yacht. As the crew prepares to set sail, we’ll welcome you with an initial orientation and a light snack.

PM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: BLACK TURTLE COVE
After lunch, enjoy a panga ride through Black Turtle Cove, a network of mangrove lined inlets and small islets. This tranquil setting offers the chance to spot white tipped reef sharks, marine turtles, spotted eagle rays, and yellow cow-nosed rays. In the evening, we’ll have an orientation about the Galapagos Islands, covering their origin and evolution. You’ll enjoy a welcome cocktail with the entire crew, followed by dinner and your first nightly orientation.

DAY 2: SATURDAY

AM: GENOVESA ISLAND: PRINCE PHILIP STEPS
Start your day with a delightful breakfast and continue with an exhilarating panga ride and make a dry landing at Prince Phillips’s Steps. Here, you’ll have the chance to walk and immerse yourself in the captivating lives of the local bird species.

PM: DARWIN BAY
Return to the yacht for a sumptuous lunch. In the afternoon, make a thrilling wet landing at Darwin Bay to explore and observe an array of wildlife, including frigate birds, herons, mockingbirds, boobies, shorebirds, turtles, marine iguanas, and more. Relish dinner on the yacht, followed by an engaging orientation about the conservation efforts dedicated to protecting the Islands. Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

DAY 3: SUNDAY

AM: RABIDA ISLAND
Kick off your day with a delicious 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. We walk and we arrive at a small saltwater lagoon where we can see pink flamingos.

PM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: DRAGON HILL
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, we return to the Yacht for dinner and our nightly orientation. Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

DAY 4: MONDAY

AM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: FAUSTO LLERENA, INTEPRETATION CENTER
After breakfast, you disembark at Puerto Ayora to start the visit to the Interpretation Center Fausto Llerena.

PM: HIGHLANDS – TWIN CRATERS
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. Return to the Port for a walk through the little town to appreciate various handicrafts. We have a welcome cocktail with the entire crew, and dinner.

DAY 5: TUESDAY

AM: FLOREANA ISLAND: POST OFFICE BAY – BARONESS VIEW POINT

Followed by a delicious breakfast, your first stop will be at Post Office Bay, a historic site dating back to the 18th century when whalers used a wooden barrel as a post office. Pay a visit to Baroness Point, named after the intriguing Baroness Eloisa von Wagner, who once lived on Floreana Island. Return to the yacht, for a well deserved lunch.

PM: CHAMPION ISLET CORMORANT POINT
The activities continue with a panga ride around Champion Islet, a small island off the coast of Floreana Island. The main attraction here is the nearly extinct Charles (Floreana) Mockingbird. Visitors can also observe bird species such as Swallow-tailed Gulls, Nazca Boobies, and Brown Noddies. Champion Islet is an excellent spot for snorkeling, where you can see sea turtles, reef fish, Galapagos Penguins, and white-tipped reef sharks. Make a wet landing at Cormorant Point for a short walk to the Flamingo Lagoon. Continue the walk to “La Picona” beach to see marine turtles and their nesting grounds. Early in the afternoon, return to the yacht for dinner and a nightly orientation.

Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

IMPORTANT: the listed visit spots can´t be visited in one day, we will proceed according to weather conditions and group dynamics.

DAY 6: WEDNESDAY

AM: ESPAÑOLA ISLAND: SUAREZ POINT
Start your day with a good breakfast and kick off with an early dry landing at Suarez Point, where you’ll embark on an adventurous walk along lava beds. Here, you’ll encounter unique colonies of marine birds, including the majestic Albatross (from May to December). Return to the yacht for a delicious lunch.

PM: GARDNER ISLAND – OSBORN ISLET – GARDNER BAY
In the afternoon, set out on a thrilling panga ride around Gardner Islet. Then, make a wet landing at Gardner Bay for an exhilarating beach walk, where you’ll observe a lively colony of sea lions, abundant during the breeding season. This area is also a crucial nesting site for sea turtles. After this, embark on another panga ride around Osborn Islet. Late in the afternoon return to the yacht for a delightful dinner and an engaging nightly orientation.

Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

DAY 7: THURSDAY

AM: SAN CRISTOBAL ISLAND: WITCH HILL – KICKER ROCK
After breakfast, embark on an exhilarating wet landing at Witch Hill, where you’ll stroll along a stunning white sandy beach. Here, you’ll encounter playful sea lions, elegant brown pelicans, striking marine iguanas, and the iconic blue-footed boobies. Next, your skilled Captain expertly navigates around Kicker Rock, a colossal tuff-rock formation that soars nearly 500 feet straight from the ocean. This dramatic rock serves as a nesting sanctuary for a myriad of sea birds. Savor a delicious lunch on board as you take in the breathtaking views. In the afternoon, make a dry landing at Isla Lobos, where you’ll be enchanted by the sight of blue-footed boobies, majestic frigates, diverse sea birds, graceful rays, and playful sea lions.

PM: INTERPRETATION CENTER GIANNI ARISMENDY
Later, make a dry landing at Baquerizo Moreno Port to visit the Interpretation Center Gianni Arismendy. Here, you’ll delve into the fascinating history and evolution of the Galapagos Islands, exploring human, natural, and conservation aspects. Spend some time in town for last-minute shopping or a visit to the ATM. Return to the yacht and for the next visit, you´ll explore Lobos Island in the Galápagos is a favorite destination for nature lovers, offering incredible opportunities for wildlife encounters, snorkeling adventures, and a scenic short hike. The island is teeming with sea lions and is a great place to spot blue-footed boobies, frigatebirds, and a variety of fascinating marine life. At night enjoy a delightful dinner and the last nightly orientation.

Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling

DAY 8: FRIDAY

AM: MOSQUERA ISLAND – BALTRA AIRPORT
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.

You’ll then return to the Yacht, have a farewell breakfast. Your guide will accompany you to disembark at the pier at Baltra Island on after a short bus ride you reach the airport, just in time to board your flight back to the mainland.

Important: Itineraries are unlikely to change significantly but are subject to change. Weather, wildlife breeding, safety concerns, instructions from the Galapagos National Park, specific abilities and interests of passengers as well as operational matters may cause your guide or captain to change the time or nature of visits. Your guide and captain will always endeavor to select the best itinerary within these limits.

Itinerary Option 2 East Route 5 days

ITINERARY DAY BY DAY:

DAY 1: MONDAY

AM:  BALTRA AIRPORT
Flight from mainland Ecuador (Quito or Guayaquil) to Baltra, with LATAM Airlines; arriving at 11:40 a.m. approximately. A guide meets us and accompanies us as we ride the bus to the Itabaca Channel, we cross the channel by barge and then we continue to Puerto Ayora by bus.

PM: HIGHLANDS – TWIN CRATERS
We aboard the Yacht and the crew greets us and offers us a light snack and we have our first orientation. In the afternoon, we land at the pier, after a short bus drive, we will visit the native forest at the Twin Craters. Return to the Port for a walk through the little town to appreciate various handicrafts. We have a welcome cocktail with the entire crew, and dinner.

DAY 2: TUESDAY

AM: FLOREANA ISLAND: POST OFFICE BAY – BARONESS VIEW POINT

After breakfast, you make a wet 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, we will stop at 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. Return to the Yacht for lunch. In the afternoon, 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 we reach the beach called “La Picona” to see marine turtles and their spawning grounds.

PM: CHAMPION ISLET CORMORANT POINT
Optional: time for those who would like to swim and snorkel. Then, we 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; we will see sea turtles, reef fishes, Galapagos Penguins and white-tipped reef sharks.

Optional: time for those who would like to swim and/or snorkel. You return to the Yacht for dinner and our nightly orientation.

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY

AM: ESPAÑOLA ISLAND: SUAREZ POINT
After breakfast, you make an early dry landing on Punta Suarez to walk along lava beds where you will observe unique colonies of marine birds, including Albatross (May – December).

PM: GARDNER ISLAND – OSBORN ISLET – GARDNER BAY
Return to the Yacht for lunch. In the afternoon, you make a wet landing in Gardner Bay for a walk on the beach and observe a colony of sea lions, which inhabit the beach in great quantity during the breeding season; this is also an important nesting area for sea turtles.

Optional: time for those who would like to swim, snorkel or kayak. Then, we make a panga ride around the Osborn Islet and the islets of Gardner. Return to the Yacht for dinner and our nightly orientation.

DAY 4: THURSDAY

AM: SAN CRISTOBAL ISLAND: WITCH HILL – KICKER ROCK
After breakfast, 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 nesting place for many sea birds. Then, 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.

PM: INTERPRETATION CENTER GIANNI ARISMENDY
Optional: time for those who would like to swim, snorkel or Kayak. You come aboard for a delicious lunch. In the afternoon, you make a dry landing on San Cristobal port, visit to the Interpretation Center Gianni Arismendy at Port, where you learn about the origin and evolution of the Galapagos Islands, regarding the human, natural and conservation aspects. Time in town to do your last shopping or to go to the ATM. You return to the Yacht for dinner, and our nightly orientation.

DAY 5: FRIDAY

AM: MOSQUERA ISLAND – BALTRA AIRPORT
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.

Optional: time for those who would like to swim and snorkel. You return to the Yacht for disembarking on the pier at 09:00. Your guide accompanies you on the bus ride directly to the airport.

Important: Itineraries are unlikely to change significantly but are subject to change. Weather, wildlife breeding, safety concerns, instructions from the Galapagos National Park, specific abilities and interests of passengers as well as operational matters may cause your guide or captain to change the time or nature of visits. Your guide and captain will always endeavor to select the best itinerary within these limits.

Itinerary Option 2 East Route 4 days

ITINERARY DAY BY DAY:

DAY 1: FRIDAY

AM:  BALTRA AIRPORT TRANSFER TO THE BOAT
You’ll fly from mainland Ecuador (either Quito or Guayaquil) to Baltra with LATAM Airlines, arriving around 09:50 a.m. Your guide will be waiting for you at the arrivals gate, and our crew will handle your luggage. The guide will then escort you to a bus for a brief 5-kilometer ride to the pier, where you’ll promptly board the Yacht. As the crew prepares to set sail, we’ll welcome you with an initial orientation and a light snack.

PM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: BLACK TURTLE COVE
After lunch, enjoy a panga ride through Black Turtle Cove, a network of mangrove lined inlets and small islets. This tranquil setting offers the chance to spot white tipped reef sharks, marine turtles, spotted eagle rays, and yellow cow-nosed rays. In the evening, we’ll have an orientation about the Galapagos Islands, covering their origin and evolution. You’ll enjoy a welcome cocktail with the entire crew, followed by dinner and your first nightly orientation.

DAY 2: SATURDAY

AM: GENOVESA ISLAND: PRINCE PHILIP STEPS
Start your day with a delightful breakfast and continue with an exhilarating panga ride and make a dry landing at Prince Phillips’s Steps. Here, you’ll have the chance to walk and immerse yourself in the captivating lives of the local bird species.

PM: DARWIN BAY
Return to the yacht for a sumptuous lunch. In the afternoon, make a thrilling wet landing at Darwin Bay to explore and observe an array of wildlife, including frigate birds, herons, mockingbirds, boobies, shorebirds, turtles, marine iguanas, and more. Relish dinner on the yacht, followed by an engaging orientation about the conservation efforts dedicated to protecting the Islands. Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

DAY 3: SUNDAY

AM: RABIDA ISLAND
Kick off your day with a delicious 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. We walk and we arrive at a small saltwater lagoon where we can see pink flamingos.

PM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: DRAGON HILL
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, we return to the Yacht for dinner and our nightly orientation. Optional: your guide will inform you where there will be time for swimming and snorkeling.

DAY 4: MONDAY

AM: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND: FAUSTO LLERENA, INTEPRETATION CENTER
After breakfast, you disembark at Puerto Ayora to start the visit to the Interpretation Center Fausto Llerena.

You’ll then return to the Yacht, have a farewell breakfast. Your guide will accompany you to disembark at the pier at Baltra Island on after a short bus ride you reach the airport, just in time to board your flight back to the mainland.

Important: Itineraries are unlikely to change significantly but are subject to change. Weather, wildlife breeding, safety concerns, instructions from the Galapagos National Park, specific abilities and interests of passengers as well as operational matters may cause your guide or captain to change the time or nature of visits. Your guide and captain will always endeavor to select the best itinerary within these limits.