GUAYAQUIL and GALAPAGOS 9 days / 8 nights program

SERVICES' DESCRIPTION.-

Day 1: Transfer from the JOSE JOAQUIN DE OLMEDO's airport (Guayaquil) to hotel MACAW.

Day 2: After breakfast, you can op for a city-tour (approx. duration: three hours), you can take it either in the morning or in the evening. You'll visit the city's most important tourist sites, like: The Iguanas' Park, Simon Bolivar's Malecon, Las Peñas' neighbourhood, and the Santa Ana's Hill. SCHEDULES: 09:30 or 15:30.

Day 3: After breakfast, transfer to the airport in order to take the flight to Galapagos. In BALTRA, transfer to hotel MAINAO (Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island). Check-in and lunch in a local restaurant.
In the afternoon, visits to the SANTA CRUZ' highlands.


Day 4: After the breakfast, Bay tour and snorkel, with an approximate duration of three hours, includes sites like: Lobería, sharks' channel, dogs' beach, Estrada's point, and Love's canal. You will have the opportunity to swim with sea lions, turtles, iguanas and of multicolour fish. Lunch in a local restaurant in Puerto Ayora.
14:45 We'll leave to Turtle's Bay beach: This is a quiet walk of about 2 ½ km long by a beautiful footpath surrounded by a vegetation of: escalesia, matazarnos, opuntia's cactus and candelabrums; throughout the footpath - dry zone, vegetation like: escalesia, matazarnos, opuntia's cactus and candelabrums, lava's lizards, cucubes, finches. Lunch in a local restaurant.

Day 5: Breakfast.
07:45 From the hotel's lobby, departure to your navigable tour to FLOREANA ISLAND.
09:45
Approximated arrival to Devil's Crown, excellent site for snorkelling and to observe penguins, sea lions, turtles, sharks, diversity of fish (according to the season), dolphins. Visit to Velasco Ibarra's Port, in the highlands of this island, where you can observe the water slopes and pirates' ruins. Lunch in a local restaurant, or box-lunch aboard.
17:00 Approximated arrival in Ayora's Port.

Day 6: Breakfast
09:00 Visits the Darwin's Station
14:00 Boat transfer to ISABELLA Island - Villamil Port
16:00 Transfer-in: El Embarcadero's dock - VOLCANO Hotel
16:30 Visit the Arnaldo Tupiza Raising Centre and dinner.

Day 7: Breakfast
08:30 Tour to the SIERRA NEGRA and Chico Volcanoes.
We will observe the world's second greater boiler and the smokes of Small Volcano. Box-lunch including.
In afternoon, snorkelling tour and visit to the Tintoreras' (sharks) lagoon.
Dinner in VOLCANO hotel.

Day 8:
05:30 Transfer-out: Pick-up: 05:30 Transfer to Santa Cruz.
08:30 Breakfast in MAINAO hotel
14:30 Visit the Garrapatero's beach.

Day 9:
07:00 Breakfast and transfer-out to the BALTRA airport.

 

The price does include:
– BREAKFAST AND LUNCH
– OVERNIGHT AT MACAW HOTEL (Guayaquil): Double rooms with private facilities.
– OVERNIGHT AT MAINAO HOTEL (Galapagos): Multiple acommodations (double or triple rooms with private facilities).
– OVERNIGHT AT PUERTO VILLAMIL - Tourist superior class Hotel.
– TRANSFERS IN GALAPAGOS
– BILINGUAL NATURALIST GUIDE.

The price does not include:
DINNERS
AIR TICKET TO GALAPAGOS
– MEDICAL & TRAVEL INSURANCE
– GALAPAGOS NATIONAL PARK ENTRANCE FEE + INGALA's Card
– LAUNDRY AND TELEPHONE
– ALCOHOLICAL BEVERAGES AND SOFT EXTRA DRINKS
– TIPS, PERSONAL EXPENSES.