Galapagos Eden
ITINERARY DAY BY DAY
8 days / 7 nights
Sunday to Sunday
Day 1
Baltra Island arrival / Highlands (Santa Cruz Island)
Arrival at Baltra airport. Transfer to Santa Cruz Island Highlands. Cross the highlands the passengers will visit Cerro Chato. In this visit, you’ll be able to observe the famous giant tortoises that gave the name to these islands. Additionally, travelers can literally get into the Galapagos by walking in the dormant lava tubes
Day 2
Española Island
Disembark at Suarez Point in the morning and Gardner Bay in the afternoon. Enjoy open areas where you can spot lava lizards, iguanas, and many birds: blue footed boobies, masked boobies, Galapagos hawk, Frigate bird, giant waved albatross. Time is allowed for swimming and snorkeling.
Day 3
South Plazas Island / Santa Fe Island
You will sail to Plazas, where a large colony of sea lions lounges daily in the equatorial sun. Plaza Island is also peppered with hundreds of land and marine iguanas, towering cacti "trees" that form the principal diet for both the land iguanas and the cactus finch. After lunch you visit Santa Fe Island and the local sea lion colony.
Day 4
North Seymour Island / Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz Island)
After an early breakfast you will disembark at North Seymour Island. Here you will see frigatebirds, the clownish blue-footed booby, and of course the ubiquitous sea lions. In the afternoon at Bachas beach, here you find nesting sea turtles, flamingos and other migratory birds.
Day 5
Genovesa Island
Disembark at El Barranco also known as Prince Phillip's Steps in the morning and Darwin Bay in the afternoon. Enjoy open areas where you can spot small marine iguanas, and many birds. The first view of Galapagos volcanoes, Darwin bay is an eroded crater under water, nearby is the white coral beach where will find many birds, opuntia cacti forests and mangroves.
Day 6
Bartolome Island / Santiago Island
Visit Bartolome Island , if you hike to the summit of this small island you will have one of the most impresive landscapes of the Galapagos. Great opportunity for snorkelling with a vast marine life. After lunch, you visit Sullivan bay and walk on lava fields, both types pahoehoe and aa lava, enjoy watching a colony of penguins.
Day 7
Santiago Island / Rabida island
At Puerto Egas you disembark and follow a footpath across the island to find marine iguanas, Darwin finches, lava lizards, and endemic Galapagos hawks along the way. A special sight on Santiago are the fur seals. After lunch you visit the seashell pink sands of Rabida Island. Here you will see a pelican nesting area and many sea birds flying above. One of the best snorkelling spots in the islands.
Day 8
Santa Cruz Island / Baltra Island departure
Visit the world-famous Charles Darwin Station, a non-profit institution that dedicates itself to studying and protecting Galapagos wildlife. This is one of the best places to see land tortoises, including Lonely George, the last survivor of his subspecies. You will also visit the station's Tortoise Rearing Center. From the Research Station you will take a bus to the airport for departure flight to the Ecuador mainland to Quito or GUayaquil.