Tour Details
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Best Of Santa Cruz
Prices from
$400
Duration
3 Nights, 4 Days
Group Size
8 Guest
Itinerary
Fly from Quito or Guayaquil to Baltra airport where your Naturalist Guide will transfer you to Santa Cruz Island. On your way to Pto Ayora you will stop by a Giant Tortoise Reserve “El chato” where you are going to have the opportunity to see the simbolic animal of the Galapagos roaming in the wild and a walk through of a natural formation of the islands “Lava tunnels”. after lunch at this reserve we will get back in our transportation to continue our trip to Pto Ayora wich is one of the inhabitad part of Santa Cruz island where your hotel is waiting for you. Before dinner we will have a city tour so you can get familiarize with this beatifull town.
After breakfast our Naturalist guide will take you for a interesting walk (1 hour-3.5Km) to Tortuga Bay beach. On the way you will have the opportunity to see the famous cactus trees (endemic cactus) until you arrive to the first beach known as playa brava because of the strong currents, our goal is to get to playa mansa (calm beach), wich it will take an extra 15 minutes walk, along this way we will have the chance to spot unique wildlife of the Galapagos islands as Marine Iguanas, Pelicans, shore birds and the nesting zones of sea turtles. When we arrive to playa mansa we will take a short walk to spot baby sharks from shore and time to go in for a splash. Optional activities: Snorkelling or Kayaking. After visiting this beatiful beach we will go back to Pto ayora. After lunch and a quick siesta we will visit the Charles Darwin station, at this research station we wil see a variaty of Giant tortoises in captivity, different sizes and ages. We will hear the efforts of conservation towards to preserve the different types of tortoises that the Archipelago has.
Depending on availability you will visit one of this Islands. This day after having breakfast the meeting point is going to be at the main pier of Pto. Ayora, where your guide is going to be waiting for you to start your trip. This is one of the best snorkelling sites in Galapagos islands, there is a big possibility of seing green pacific sea turtlles, sea lions, rays, white tip reef sharks and ocasionally the galapagos penguin, schools of reef fish. During this tour we also do some sportng fishing where our clients will try some of the caatch of the day.
Early in the morning after breakfast we will take our transportation towards the airport, on the way we will stop by (30 min) the twins craters wich is an evidence of how these Islands were form, you will have the time to spot different type of land birds as Darwin finches, yellow warblers, large billed flycatchers and owls (depending on the season).
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