This exclusive 6-night itinerary primarily explores the remote western islands of Isabela and pristine Fernandina, which are both just recently born out of fire. After navigating clockwise around Isabela we will return to the heart of the archipelago to visit several sites on Santiago and its satellite islets, before finishing on and around Santa Cruz and North Seymour. This cruise itinerary includes two nights of quiet rest at fairly calm anchorage-sites.
Arrival
Snorkeling
Hike
Kayak
Dinghy Ride
Departure
AM: Flight to Baltra Airport (GPS)
PM: Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz)
AM: Tintoreras 
PM: Wetlands, Tortoise breeding centre (Isabela)
AM: Moreno Point (Isabela)
PM: Mangle Point / Tagus Cove (Isabela)
AM: Espinoza Point (Fernandina)
PM: Vicente Roca Point (Isabela)
AM: Espumilla Beach & Buccaneer Cove
PM: Puerto Egas (Santiago)
AM: Rabida
PM: Chinese Hat
AM: Charles Darwin Research Station
Transfer to Baltra Airport
Arrival at Baltra Airport and transfer in. You will have to pay your Galapagos National Park entrance fee and your luggage will be inspected
Activities:
Difficulty: – –
Strolling along its coastline, the blinding white Bachas Beach appears full of natural life. It is one of the most important breeding sites for Pacific green turtles.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
This group of jagged rocky islets is just off the coast of Puerto Villamil forms one of most stereotypical sites of the Galapagos.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
The wetlands and brackish lagoons of Isabela are among the best places to spot aquatic, wading and shore birds.
In the Arnaldo Tupiza Breeding Centre you can see hundreds of giant Galapagos tortoises of all sizes (the vulnerable hatchlings are not gigantic at all, even smaller than the size of your hand)!
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Fresh, promising greens of pioneer vegetation contrast strongly with the dead, pitch-black lava flow that once reached the ocean at Moreno Point.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Tagus Cove is a historical anchorage at the northern entrance of Bolivar Channel (between Isabela and Fernandina).
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Westernmost Fernandina harbours one of the world’s most virgin, untouched ecosystems, and is another crown jewel of Galapagos.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
The impressive cliffs and coves of Vicente Roca Point are an excellent backdrop for a thrilling dinghy ride. Just three minutes of a degree south of the equator you can encounter a family of endemic Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants along the shoreline.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Espumilla Beach is a visitor’s site at the northern end of James Bay. This beach has been revived as an important breeding site for turtles, as it is no longer suffering from digging wild pigs.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Puerto Egas is historical, and the favourite site on Santiago for wildlife lovers; and it’s even the best place in the archipelago to observe Galapagos fur seals.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Upon landing at this remarkable red beach a large bachelor colony of Galapagos sea lions will usually welcome you.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Though recently born out of fire, the volcanic islet Chinese Hat does not appear to be any more inhospitable than Bartolomé and lunatic Sullivan Bay. This tiny, rusty-coloured islet is just beginning to sprout.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy – Moderated
The most memorable part of the Charles Darwin Research Station will probably be the successful breeding centre and its celebrity ‘Lonesome George’.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Assisted by the naturalist guide and some crew members, the dinghy will bring you and your luggage to Baltra, where we will take the airport shuttle. Your guide will accompany you to the check-in counters in the departure hall.
We expect you to return home with stunning pictures and unforgettable lifelong memories!
Activities:
Difficulty: – –
Arrival at Baltra Airport and transfer in. You will have to pay your Galapagos National Park entrance fee and your luggage will be inspected
Activities:
Difficulty: – –
Strolling along its coastline, the blinding white Bachas Beach appears full of natural life. It is one of the most important breeding sites for Pacific green turtles.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
This group of jagged rocky islets is just off the coast of Puerto Villamil forms one of most stereotypical sites of the Galapagos.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
The wetlands and brackish lagoons of Isabela are among the best places to spot aquatic, wading and shore birds.
In the Arnaldo Tupiza Breeding Centre you can see hundreds of giant Galapagos tortoises of all sizes (the vulnerable hatchlings are not gigantic at all, even smaller than the size of your hand)!
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Fresh, promising greens of pioneer vegetation contrast strongly with the dead, pitch-black lava flow that once reached the ocean at Moreno Point.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Tagus Cove is a historical anchorage at the northern entrance of Bolivar Channel (between Isabela and Fernandina).
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Westernmost Fernandina harbours one of the world’s most virgin, untouched ecosystems, and is another crown jewel of Galapagos.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
The impressive cliffs and coves of Vicente Roca Point are an excellent backdrop for a thrilling dinghy ride. Just three minutes of a degree south of the equator you can encounter a family of endemic Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants along the shoreline.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Espumilla Beach is a visitor’s site at the northern end of James Bay. This beach has been revived as an important breeding site for turtles, as it is no longer suffering from digging wild pigs.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Puerto Egas is historical, and the favourite site on Santiago for wildlife lovers; and it’s even the best place in the archipelago to observe Galapagos fur seals.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy
Upon landing at this remarkable red beach a large bachelor colony of Galapagos sea lions will usually welcome you.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Though recently born out of fire, the volcanic islet Chinese Hat does not appear to be any more inhospitable than Bartolomé and lunatic Sullivan Bay. This tiny, rusty-coloured islet is just beginning to sprout.
Activities:
Difficulty: Easy – Moderated
The most memorable part of the Charles Darwin Research Station will probably be the successful breeding centre and its celebrity ‘Lonesome George’.
Activities:
Difficulty: Moderated
Assisted by the naturalist guide and some crew members, the dinghy will bring you and your luggage to Baltra, where we will take the airport shuttle. Your guide will accompany you to the check-in counters in the departure hall.
We expect you to return home with stunning pictures and unforgettable lifelong memories!
Activities:
Difficulty: – –
