Santa Cruz and San Cristobal Combined 5 days

Santa Cruz y San Cristobal combinado 5 dias

Program

Day 1:
Transfer to Santa Cruz - Charles Darwin Research Station
Upon arrival to Santa Cruz Island, Puerto Ayora our guides will meet the passengers, pick up their luggage and accompany them to the hotel. Visit to the Charles Darwin Station and the National Park Interpretation Center, visit the turtle and land iguana exhibitors and return to the Hotel. Accommodation.

Day 2:
Santa Cruz - Tortuga Bay Beach and Bahia Tour
Breakfast. A 45-minute walk through majestic vegetation and wonderful land birds, the trail will lead us to one of the most beautiful and impressive beaches of Galapagos and Ecuador where we will find the great black colored marine iguanas walking on the shore of the soft sand and wonderful dunes, good place for surfing. Return to the Hotel, Lunch in the afternoon we will make the Bay Tour that covers 5 different sites around Bahia Academia, located in the canton of Santa Cruz, using a time of 10 minutes to the first stop, most of the tour is done by yacht, there are two stops where there is a walk of 15 and 20 minutes respectively, the time it takes to make this tour is 3 hours. The Academia Bay Tour consists of visiting 4 different sites around the bay. The first of them is Los Perros beach, a small beach 10 minutes away from Puerto Ayora, which is home to a colony of iguanas. Then visit the tunnels of love and the tunnels of the blue sharks are very good places for snorkeling and to observe blue-footed boobies nesting on the rocks. At Dogs Beach you can enjoy a walk along the rocks among opuntias and observe large groups of marine iguanas and sea turtles feeding on the shore. The last site is Las Grietas, an inlet of brackish, fresh and crystalline water, characteristics that make it a good place for snorkeling. Lunch, dinner. Accommodation.

Day 3:
Santa Cruz - San Cristobal - Ferry to San Cristobal - Cerro Tijeretas - Punta Carola
Breakfast and transfer to the dock to take the ferry to San Cristobal, a walk through the dry forest of Cerro Tijeretas. Sightings of blue-footed and masked boobies, frigate birds and other birds. We will visit the interpretation center of the national park where we will find information about the origin of the islands and their endemic species. To end the day we will visit Punta Carola which is a beach located to the northwest of Puerto Baquerizo Moreno. The beach has an extension of 300 meters approximately, the same one that is conformed by vegetation of dry forest. Lunch and dinner. Accommodation.

Day 4:
Laguna del Junco - Galapaguera - Puerto Chino
Breakfast, we will visit El Junco Lagoon located in the upper part of the island of San Cristobal and is the only freshwater lagoon in the Galapagos Islands. This lagoon is characterized by great scenic beauty and on clear days you can have a beautiful view of almost the entire island. Along with El Junco Lagoon, you can visit La Galapaguera, which is the breeding center for land tortoises. Additionally, passing El Junco Lagoon, continuing along the same road, you can reach Puerto Chino Beach. This beautiful white sand beach is ideal to enjoy the sun and the waves. Lunch, dinner. Accommodation

Day 5:
San Cristobal
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to San Cristobal airport.

Price includes

- Transfer airport hotel airport in Santa Cruz and San Cristobal
- Lodging 2 nights in San Cristobal in the selected hotel with breakfast
- Lodging 2 nights in Santa Cruz at selected hotel with breakfast
- Lunches and dinners
- Land and Maritime Transportation in shared
- Visit Tortuga Bay Beach, Darwin Station, Bahia Tour
- Tijeretas Hill, Punta Carola
- Laguna el Junco, Puerto Chino, Galapaguera
- Guides Authorized by the Galapagos National Park
- Hotel taxes
- Lobito Bus

Price does not include

- Air ticket
- Migratory control card $30.00 per person
- Tax to the Galapagos National Park Andean community $100 Foreign $200
- Santa Cruz municipal dock fee $1.00 Isabela nationals $5.00 foreigners $10.00
- Water taxi fee for Inter-island transfer $1.00 per person per route
- Snorkel equipment
- Services not specified in the program

Itinerary

Accommodations provided in each place