Original Galapagos Island Hopping Tour 8 Days

ECUADOR PROGRAM IN STANDARD HOTELS

Day 1. QUITO OR GUAYAQUIL ~ GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: SANTA CRUZ 

• Flight to the Enchanted Galapagos islands. Arrival at Baltra island airport. Land and sea transfer to Santa Cruz Island, to the city of Puerto Ayora, to your hotel with a swimming pool. Visit a Galapagos tortoises reserve and lava tunnels or the Charles Darwin Scientific Station.
• Free time to enjoy the day by the beach or tour of Puerto Ayora.
• Free dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Day 2. GALAPAGOS: SEYMOUR OR PLAZAS OR BARTOLOME ISLAND 

• Breakfast. Transfer to Baltra harbor then sea transfer to Seymour or Plazas or Bartolome Island:  visit on foot and snorkeling. Lunch on board.
• Then short sea transfer to Santa Cruz Island and visit to Bachas beach or Punta Carrion or on Santiago Island, visit the Bahia Sullivan site.
• Sea and land transfer back to Puerto Ayora. Free dinner. Night stay at the hotel.

Day 3. GALAPAGOS: SANTA CRUZ ~ ISABELA ISLAND 

• Breakfast. Boat trip to Isabela Island, up to Puerto Villamil village.  Visit the Flamingo Lagoon and the local Galapagos tortoise breeding center. Snorkeling at Tintoreras site. Lunch. Beach time. Night stay at the hotel.

Day 4. GALAPAGOS: ISABELA ISLAND

• Breakfast. Transfer to the foot Sierra Negra volcano then walk around its crater or sea transfer and visit to the sensational Cabo Rosa tunnels and snorkeling. Hike to observe the wetlands or visit of the historic wall of tears. Free dinner. Night stay at the hotel.

Day 5. GALAPAGOS: ISABELA ~ FLOREANA OR SANTA CRUZ ISLAND

• Breakfast. Boat trip to Floreana Island. Arrival at Puerto Velasco Ibarra. Visit“Asilo de la Paz”, the “Galapaguera” and the “Loberia” and possible snorkel. Lunch on board or in a local restaurant. Or instead Floreana Island, navigation back to Santa Cruz Island and walk and swim in the beautiful Tortuga Bay beach or other activity.  Free dinner. Night stay at the hotel in Floreana or Santa Cruz, in Puerto Ayora (depending on the day).

Day 6. GALAPAGOS: FLOREANA OR SANTA CRUZ ~ SAN CRISTOBAL ISLAND  

• Breakfast. Boat trip to San Cristobal Island. Arrival at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, small beach town and Galapagos capital. Visit to the Interpretation center on the Tijeretas hill or to Islas Lobos, inhabited by a colony of sea lions and blue-footed boobies and possible great snorkel.
• Free time for a city tour or to enjoy the beach.
• Free dinner and overnight stay at the hotel in front of the ocean.

Day 7. GALAPAGOS: ESPANOLA ISLAND 

• Breakfast. Excursion day to the most beautiful island and the richest in animals: Espanola. Visit to Suarez Point which inhabitants are Nazca boobies, blue-footed boobies, finches and other birds; then snorkeling in Gardner Bay. Lunch on board.
• Transfer back to Puerto Baquerizo. Free dinner and hotel overnight.

Day 8. GALAPAGOS: FLIGHT TO SAN CRISTOBAL ~ QUITO OR GUAYAQUIL

• Breakfast. Visit he Loberia, where hundreds of sea lions meet, Or another tour possible according to the flight departure time. Then transfer to San Cristobal island airport and flight back to Quito or Guayaquil.

The island visits can change according to the date or the weather.