Baltra Island Airport

Your flight arrives at noon from Quito or Guayaquil to Baltra. Lunch on board.

Dragon Hill (Santa Cruz Island)

After lunch the navigation goes southwest to Dragon Hill (Cerro Dragon). Here, in an unique vegetation, are livings he last land iguanas of Santa Cruz Island. Dinner and overnight on board.

South Plaza Island

At dawn you reach Plaza Island. Thanks to the powerful Opuntia cacti and bright or angered Sesuvium shrubs, it’s a surprisingly colorful island, where the land iguanas dominate the field. A small sea lion colony lives at the cliffs on the south coast. The avifauna offers the brown pelican, tropic birds, swallow-tailed gulls, frigate birds, Blue-footed-boobies and Nazca-boobies.

Santa Fe Island

You will spend the afternoon on the Santa Fe Island. This is one of the most picturesque anchore places of the archipelago, where you can swim with sea lions and sea turtles. Dinner and overnight on board.

Interpretation Center (San Cristobal Island)

You will visit the newly built Visitor Center. It shows an excellent exhibition about the nature and settlement history of the Galapagos.

Lobos Island (San Cristobal Island)

In the afternoon you reach Isla Lobos. This islet near Playa Ochoa of San Cristobal is home to blue-footed boobies and frigate birds that nest between the salt bushes. Also, sea lions can be found again. It is also a good place for Saguaro cacti. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pitt Point (San Cristobal Island)

At dawn you reach the northeastern tip of San Cristobal, Punta Pitt. The path leads through colonies of frigate birds, swallow-tailed gulls, Nazca, Red- and blue-footed boobies. Punta Pitt is the only place in the Galápagos where the three booby species are found together.

Galapaguera (San Cristobal Island)

In the afternoon a walk from the beach up to the high country, into the field of "Natural Galapaguera". This distance takes about 3 ½ hours (there and back). In the absence of shade trees, it can be quite hot in the warmer seasons. But you will be rewarded with the fact that you can meet the famous Galapagos giant tortoises in their natural environment on this route. The huge animals are up to 200 years old and weigh up to 300 kg. Dinner and overnight on board.

Cerro Brujo (San Cristobal Island)

In the morning you arrive at Cerro Brujo on the west coast of the island of San Cristobal. In this fascinating crater there are boobies, gulls and some pelicans. In the sheltered bay young sea turtles and stingrays live - a beautiful place for swimming and snorkeling.

Kicker Rock (San Cristobal Island)

After lunch, drive along the coast to the fragmented tuff Leon Dormido (Kicker Rock), which serves as nesting seabirds many. Look out for blue-footed boobies, pelicans and frigate birds. Dinner and overnight on board.

Suarez Point (Española Island)

The flat, southern Española Island (Hood) belongs entirely to birds. Here, large colonies of nesting blue-footed and masked boobies. 10,000 albatrosses join this island from April until December. As well as tropical birds, various gulls land- and marine iguanas. In the morning visit Punta Suarez, where you get to after a 4 kilometer walk to the south coast to a hole in the rock, from which up to 35 meter high fountains shoot.

Sea lions surfing the waves, and you meet the large marine iguanas. The males are colored red. It is also the habitat of oystercatchers, blue-footed and Nazca boobies, tropic birds and swallow-tailed gulls. Besides lava lizards live here and three types of Darwin's finches. Among the large cactus finch otherwise only found on Genovesa Island.

Gardner Bay (Española Island)

In the afternoon you arrive in Gardner Bay. The 2 kilometer long, white sandy beach is one of the most beautiful bays. Sea lions lazing in the sun. Española Mockingbirds welcome the visitors, often to keep close to Galapagos hawks. In addition the marine iguanas sit down at the end of the beach and bright red crabs walking over the rocks. Dinner and overnight on board.

Cormorant Point (Floreana Island)

Floreana (Charles): 1832 first inhabited island of Floreana annals record a wild mix of colonists. In the thirties it excited as the scene of a Hollywood mature drama dropouts worldwide attention, several deaths and the disappearance of some, lend a puzzle even today.

The lagoon at Punta Cormorant, with its shimmering olive green beach is the home of flamingos and other wading birds. After a short walk over cooled volcanic slag, you reach a beach with coral sand, fine as flour. From December to March Pacific green turtles that nest here. This beach is also great to see stingrays. In this arid zone many endemic plants grow.

Post Office Bay (Floreana Island)

Floreana acts as a well-known landmark, the wooden barrel in Post Office Bay, which was used already at the time of the whalers as a mailbox. At Punta Cormorant and Post Office at the Bahia you can take snorkeling trips. Dinner and overnight on board.

Charles Darwin Research Station (Santa Cruz Island) / Airport

Although Santa Cruz was colonized in 1926 as the last island, it is now home to about half of the Galapagos residents and is the central location for the center of the archipelago. There resides the Charles Darwin Research Station, annually up to a hundred scientists from around the world are working on.

Even in nature conservation and environmental education plays a major role. Therefore, a visit to the information center and the outdoor area with its turtles and iguana enclosures has almost a must for every Galápagos stay. Around midday you will fly from the island of Baltra back to the Continent, to Guayaquil or Quito.

Baltra Island Airport

Your flight arrives at noon from Quito or Guayaquil to Baltra. After a short drive you will cross the channel Itabaca and reach the north of the island of Santa Cruz.

Highlands (Santa Cruz Island)

You will go on the highlands to the flanks of the 864 meter high volcano Cerro Crocker. On clear days you can enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding islands. You will learn about the typical Galápagos vegetation for example, tree ferns, and visit the famous giant tortoises in El Chato. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pto Villamil, Tintoreras, Breeding Center Arnaldo Tupiza, Humedales, Wall of tears or Sierra Negra (Isabela Island)

In the early morning you reach the fishing village of Puerto Villamil, Isabela Island in the south. With an area of 4588 km², it takes more than half the land area of the archipelago. Nevertheless, it is comparatively rarely visited. In the early morning you see on the barrier island Tintoreras (white tip-sharks) and sea lions.

Then continue to the "Muro de las Lágrimas" the Wall of Tears – a moving, man-made monument. This eight meters high and two hundred feet long stone wall was built in the 1940s by convicts of the penal colony settled here from basalt boulders.

Our hike then leads through a wetland of brackish lagoons where flamingos are often seen. In the sanctuary for giant tortoises, you can look at some of them up close. Or, days with good weather conditions, exists is the possibility for a hike to the crater of Sierra Negra. Dinner and overnight on board.

Moreno Point (Isabela Island)

Punta Moreno Isabela is a rugged young bay of lava with small lagoons where flamingos often stay. Other water birds live here, including Bahamian ducks.

Mangle Point (Fernandina Island)

In the early afternoon you reach the island of Fernandina, the youngest and largest of the archipelago. On the south coast is Punta Mangle, one of the best snorkeling sites of all Galapagos. Here one is especially true for penguins. Dinner and overnight on board.

Espinosa Point (Fernandina Island)

In the morning visit Punta Espinoza in the north of Fernandina. A fascinating lava scenery with cacti and individual mangrove vegetation. Besides penguins, flightless cormorants and sea lions and the largest marine iguanas of the Galapagos are among its attractions.

Tagus Cove (Isabela Island)

In the afternoon visit Tagus Cove on the west coast of Isabela. At the feet of Darwin volcano here was a popular anchorage for pirates and whalers. Some have written their names on the rock walls ship. In the nearly 2 kilometer walk you will reach a small cave, whose inscriptions dating from about 1800. Charles Darwin also visited Tagus Cove on his voyage on the Beagle. In the deep blue bay breed.

Penguins, flightless cormorants, noddi-terns, shearwaters and blue -footed boobies. A steep path through dry forests and cactus leads to a salty, green crater lake of Laguna Darwin. During the short hike you will discover once again the beauty of this island. It also offers the opportunity for a snorkel trip to the also unique underwater world. Dinner and overnight on board.

Egas Port (Santiago Island)

Also on Santiago Island there are still traces of the pirates time. The richly structured volcanic island offers long walks always new vistas. Puerto Egas was won until the sixties salt. Some abandoned buildings of that era are still standing. Behind it begins a natural wonderland. In the rock pool marine iguanas sunning themselves along with the glowing red crabs on the rocks.

Three species of Galapagos herons here to live pigeons and oystercatchers. Moreover, this is one of the best places to see migrating shorebirds. At the end of the path you expect Galapagos fur seals and sea lions. And a swim before leaving Puerto Egas.

Chinese Hat Islet

In the afternoon you are at Sombrero Chino off the coast of Santiago. Topped by a perfectly formed crater, this island resembles the silhouette of “Chinese hut”. Only specialized plants can hold between the fragile lava. Sea lions inhabit the white, coral beach fringed by salt bushes. Dinner and overnight on board.

Black Turtle Cove (Santa Cruz Island)

A board the dinghy you explore the brackish lagoon Caleta Tortuga Negra with its many sea turtles and schools of all gold rays and sharks.

North Seymour Island

On the island of North Seymour, the largest colony of frigate birds living together with swallow-tailed gulls and pelicans. Seymour Norte is also home to a group of large, old iguanas that were brought here many years ago from the nearby island of Baltra. Bursera malacophylla, a small endemic palo santo tree, is found only here and on three small neighboring islands. In the afternoon you will witness a special spectacle: Sea lions surf on the big, oncoming waves from the west. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pinnacle Rock (Bartolomé Island)

The small barrier island east Bartolomé is one of their distinctive because pinnacle of the most photographed places in the archipelago. This young Island keeps a whole series of dramatic volcanic formations, a moon-like landscape with small tuff cones and lava tubes. The various rocks have served the pilots of the U.S.

Air Force as targets for target practice during the Second World War. The two beaches are separated by Bartolomé a narrow mangrove belt. While swimming and snorkeling beach on the northern one often sees penguins. Live on the south coast reef sharks and rays, and from January to March nesting green turtles here.

Sullivan Bay (Santiago Island)

The Sullivan Bay at the east of Santiago Island is known for its distinctive forms of lava. In the evening you can once again swim in the sea or snorkel with the sea lions. Dinner and overnight on board.

Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz Island) / Airport

The final visit takes you to Bachas beach, at the north coast of Santa Cruz Island. It is one of the most important nesting beaches for sea turtles. Behind the dunes, in the small lagoon to flamingos, stilts and bahama ducks can be observed. The wide beach is ideal for swimming and snorkeling. At midday return flight to the continent, to Guayaquil or Quito.

San Cristobal Island Airport San

At noon your flight from Quito or Guayaquil arrives at San Cristobal Island. The small town San Cristobal or Puerto Baquerizo Moreno is the administrative center of Galapagos.

Lobos Island (Cristobal Island)

In the afternoon you reach Isla Lobos. This islet near Playa Ochoa of San Cristobal is home to blue-footed boobies and frigate birds that nest between the salt bushes. Also, sea lions can be found again. It is also a good place for Saguaro cacti. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pitt Point (San Cristobal Island)

At dawn you reach the northeastern tip of San Cristobal, Punta Pitt. The path leads through colonies of frigate birds, swallow-tailed gulls, Nazca, Red- and blue-footed boobies. Punta Pitt is the only place in the Galápagos where the three booby species are found together.

Galapaguera (San Cristobal Island)

In the afternoon a walk from the beach up to the high country, into the field of "Natural Galapaguera". This distance takes about 3 ½ hours (there and back). In the absence of shade trees, it can be quite hot in the warmer seasons. But you will be rewarded with the fact that you can meet the famous Galapagos giant tortoises in their natural environment on this route. The huge animals are up to 200 years old and weigh up to 300 kg. Dinner and overnight on board.

Cerro Brujo (San Cristobal Island)

In the morning you arrive at Cerro Brujo on the west coast of the island of San Cristobal. In this fascinating crater there are boobies, gulls and some pelicans. In the sheltered bay young sea turtles and stingrays live - a beautiful place for swimming and snorkeling.

Kicker Rock (San Cristobal Island)

After lunch, drive along the coast to the fragmented tuff Leon Dormido (Kicker Rock), which serves as nesting seabirds many. Look out for blue-footed boobies, pelicans and frigate birds. Dinner and overnight on board.

Suarez Point (Española Island)

The flat, southern Española Island (Hood) belongs entirely to birds. Here, large colonies of nesting blue-footed and masked boobies. 10,000 albatrosses join this island from April until December. As well as tropical birds, various gulls land- and marine iguanas. In the morning visit Punta Suarez, where you get to after a 4 kilometer walk to the south coast to a hole in the rock, from which up to 35 meter high fountains shoot.

Sea lions surfing the waves, and you meet the large marine iguanas. The males are colored red. It is also the habitat of oystercatchers, blue-footed and Nazca boobies, tropic birds and swallow-tailed gulls. Besides lava lizards live here and three types of Darwin's finches. Among the large cactus finch otherwise only found on Genovesa Island.

Gardner Bay (Española Island)

In the afternoon you arrive in Gardner Bay. The 2 kilometer long, white sandy beach is one of the most beautiful bays. Sea lions lazing in the sun. Española Mockingbirds welcome the visitors, often to keep close to Galapagos hawks. In addition the marine iguanas sit down at the end of the beach and bright red crabs walking over the rocks. Dinner and overnight on board.

Cormorant Point (Floreana Island)

Floreana (Charles): 1832 first inhabited island of Floreana annals record a wild mix of colonists. In the thirties it excited as the scene of a Hollywood mature drama dropouts worldwide attention, several deaths and the disappearance of some, lend a puzzle even today.

The lagoon at Punta Cormorant, with its shimmering olive green beach is the home of flamingos and other wading birds. After a short walk over cooled volcanic slag, you reach a beach with coral sand, fine as flour. From December to March Pacific green turtles that nest here. This beach is also great to see stingrays. In this arid zone many endemic plants grow.

Post Office Bay (Floreana Island)

Floreana acts as a well-known landmark, the wooden barrel in Post Office Bay, which was used already at the time of the whalers as a mailbox. At Punta Cormorant and Post Office at the Bahia you can take snorkeling trips. Dinner and overnight on board.

Charles Darwin Research Station (Santa Cruz Island) / Airport

Although Santa Cruz was colonized in 1926 as the last island, it is now home to about half of the Galapagos residents and is the central location for the center of the archipelago. There resides the Charles Darwin Research Station, annually up to a hundred scientists from around the world are working on.

Even in nature conservation and environmental education plays a major role. Therefore, a visit to the information center and the outdoor area with its turtles and iguana enclosures has almost a must for every Galápagos stay. Around midday you will fly from the island of Baltra back to the Continent, to Guayaquil or Quito.

Baltra Island Airport

Your flight arrives at noon from Quito or Guayaquil to Baltra. After a short drive you will cross the channel Itabaca and reach the north of the island of Santa Cruz.

Highlands (Santa Cruz Island)

You will go on the highlands to the flanks of the 864 meter high volcano Cerro Crocker. On clear days you can enjoy a wonderful view of the surrounding islands. You will learn about the typical Galápagos vegetation for example, tree ferns, and visit the famous giant tortoises in El Chato. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pto Villamil, Tintoreras, Breeding Center Arnaldo Tupiza, Humedales, Wall of tears or Sierra Negra (Isabela Island)

In the early morning you reach the fishing village of Puerto Villamil, Isabela Island in the south. With an area of 4588 km², it takes more than half the land area of the archipelago. Nevertheless, it is comparatively rarely visited. In the early morning you see on the barrier island Tintoreras (white tip-sharks) and sea lions.

Then continue to the "Muro de las Lágrimas" the Wall of Tears – a moving, man-made monument. This eight meters high and two hundred feet long stone wall was built in the 1940s by convicts of the penal colony settled here from basalt boulders.

Our hike then leads through a wetland of brackish lagoons where flamingos are often seen. In the sanctuary for giant tortoises, you can look at some of them up close. Or, days with good weather conditions, exists is the possibility for a hike to the crater of Sierra Negra. Dinner and overnight on board.

Moreno Point (Isabela Island)

Punta Moreno Isabela is a rugged young bay of lava with small lagoons where flamingos often stay. Other water birds live here, including Bahamian ducks.

Mangle Point (Fernandina Island)

In the early afternoon you reach the island of Fernandina, the youngest and largest of the archipelago. On the south coast is Punta Mangle, one of the best snorkeling sites of all Galapagos. Here one is especially true for penguins. Dinner and overnight on board.

Espinosa Point (Fernandina Island)

In the morning visit Punta Espinoza in the north of Fernandina. A fascinating lava scenery with cacti and individual mangrove vegetation. Besides penguins, flightless cormorants and sea lions and the largest marine iguanas of the Galapagos are among its attractions.

Tagus Cove (Isabela Island)

In the afternoon visit Tagus Cove on the west coast of Isabela. At the feet of Darwin volcano here was a popular anchorage for pirates and whalers. Some have written their names on the rock walls ship. In the nearly 2 kilometer walk you will reach a small cave, whose inscriptions dating from about 1800. Charles Darwin also visited Tagus Cove on his voyage on the Beagle. In the deep blue bay breed.

Penguins, flightless cormorants, noddi-terns, shearwaters and blue -footed boobies. A steep path through dry forests and cactus leads to a salty, green crater lake of Laguna Darwin. During the short hike you will discover once again the beauty of this island. It also offers the opportunity for a snorkel trip to the also unique underwater world. Dinner and overnight on board.

Egas Port (Santiago Island)

Also on Santiago Island there are still traces of the pirates time. The richly structured volcanic island offers long walks always new vistas. Puerto Egas was won until the sixties salt. Some abandoned buildings of that era are still standing. Behind it begins a natural wonderland. In the rock pool marine iguanas sunning themselves along with the glowing red crabs on the rocks.

Three species of Galapagos herons here to live pigeons and oystercatchers. Moreover, this is one of the best places to see migrating shorebirds. At the end of the path you expect Galapagos fur seals and sea lions. And a swim before leaving Puerto Egas.

Chinese Hat Islet

In the afternoon you are at Sombrero Chino off the coast of Santiago. Topped by a perfectly formed crater, this island resembles the silhouette of “Chinese hut”. Only specialized plants can hold between the fragile lava. Sea lions inhabit the white, coral beach fringed by salt bushes. Dinner and overnight on board.

Black Turtle Cove (Santa Cruz Island)

A board the dinghy you explore the brackish lagoon Caleta Tortuga Negra with its many sea turtles and schools of all gold rays and sharks. At midday return flight to the Continent, to Guayaquil or Quito. Changes in the itinerary are possible.

Baltra Island Airport

Your flight arrives at noon from Quito or Guayaquil to Baltra. After lunch on board you already anchored off the island of North Seymour.

North Seymour Island

Here is the largest colony of frigate birds, with swallow-tailed gulls and pelicans. The island is also home to a group of large, old iguanas that were brought here many years ago from Baltra. Bursera malacophylla, a small endemic Palo Santo tree, found only here and on three small neighboring islands. In the afternoon your will be witness a special spectacle: Sea lions surfing on big, oncoming waves from the west. Dinner and overnight on board.

Pinnacle Rock (Bartolomé Island)

The small barrier island Bartolomé, east of Santiago, is because of its pinnacle, one of the most photographed places in the archipelago. This young Island keeps a series of dramatic volcanic formations, a moon-like landscape with small tuff cones and lava tubes. The rocks have served the pilots of the U.S. Air Force as targets for target practice during the World War II. The two beaches are separated by a narrow mangrove belt. While swimming and snorkeling on the northern beach, one often sees penguins. On the south coast are living reef sharks and rays. And from January to March are nesting green turtles here.

Sullivan Bay (Santiago Island)

The Sullivan Bay in the east of Santiago Island is known for its distinctive forms of lava. In the evening you can swim again swim in the sea or snorkel with the sea lions. Dinner and overnight on board.

Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz Island)

A morning visit takes you to the Bachas beach on the north coast of Santa Cruz Island. It is one of the most important nesting beaches for sea turtles. Behind the dunes, in the small lagoon, flamingos, stilts and bahama ducks can be observed. The wide beach is ideal for swimming and snorkeling.

Dragon Hill (Santa Cruz Island)

After lunch on board, the navigation goes southwest to Dragon Hill (Cerro Dragon). Here, in an unique vegetation, are living he last land iguanas of Santa Cruz Island. Dinner and overnight on board.

South Plaza Island

At dawn you reach Plaza Island. Thanks to the powerful Opuntia cacti and bright or angered Sesuvium shrubs, it’s a surprisingly colorful island, where the land iguanas dominate the field. A small sea lion colony lives at the cliffs on the south coast. The avifauna offers the brown pelican, tropic birds, swallow-tailed gulls, frigate birds, Blue-footed-boobies and Nazca-boobies.

Santa Fe Island

You will spend the afternoon on the Santa Fe Island. This is one of the most picturesque anchore places of the archipelago, where you can swim with sea lions and sea turtles. Dinner and overnight on board.

Interpretation Center (San Cristobal Island) / Airport

Your final visit is in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno: the administrative center of the archipelago of San Cristobal. You will visit the newly built Visitor Center. It shows an excellent exhibition about the nature and settlement history of the Galapagos. And around midday your flight brings you from the island of San Cristobal back to the continent, to Guayaquil or Quito.