Galapagos First Class

  TOUR INCLUDES:

• Air ticket Quito – Galapagos – Quito
• Accomodations – 4 nights
• Transfers airport - hotel - airport
• daily breakfast 
• Bilingual guide
• Visit to "Charles Darwin" Scientific Station
• Visit to Tortuga Bay (Turtle Bay).
• Seymour Island - Navigation
• Bartolome Island - Navigation

TOUR DOES NOT INCLUDE: 

• Galapagos National Park entrance (USD 100,oo)
• Ingala Traffic Control Card (Usd 10,oo)
• Rancho Primicias entrance (Usd 3,oo)                              

ITINERARY:

DAY 01: QUITO - GALAPAGOS

Reception & Transfer to the Hotel. In the afternoon, visit to Charles Darwin Scientific Station. Accommodation.

DAY 02: SEYMOUR (NAVIGATION)

Departure early in the morning from your hotel and transfer to port of Itabaca channel to board the yatch, where you will enjoy the tour with lunch included at the end of the tour transfer back to your hotel.

North Seymour Island was lifted from the ocean floor by a seismic event, and its origins as a seabed give the island its low, flat profile. Cliffs only a few meters high form the shoreline, where swallow-tailed gulls sit perched in ledges. A tiny forest of silver-grey Palo Santo trees stand just above the landing, usually without leaves, waiting for the rain to bring them into bloom.

This island is teaming with life! You might have to give way to a passing sea lion or marine iguana; blue-footed booby nests sit beside the trail where mating pairs perform their courtship dance. Further along, the rocky shore displays white sand, and large flocks of pelicans mass for a dive-bomb feeding frenzy, rendering a tableau for us from ages long past. The trail turns inland to reveal the largest nesting site in the Galápagos of the "magnificent frigate bird." These huge, dark acrobats have two-meter wingspans, and males, with puffed up scarlet throat sacks, sit precariously perched in low bushes to watch over their equally large chicks.

Also we will visit Las Bachas, a sandy white-coral beach that is a major egg-laying site for sea turtles. Bachas are notches, and the beach's name refers to the indentations left in the sand by both laying turtles and their departing hatchlings. On the shore, there are marine iguanas and in the lagoon, flamingos are commonly seen. A newer visitor's site, Dragon Hill (Cerro Dragon) is a brackish water lagoon that attracts flamingos, common stilts, pintail ducks and other species of birds. There is a short walk up a small hill, which rewards hikers with a nesting site for iguanas and a great view!

DAY 03: BARTOLOME

Departure early in the morning from your hotel and transfer to port of Itabaca channel to board the yatch where you will enjoy the tour with breakfast and lunch included at the end of the tour transfer back to your hotel.
Bartolome is famous for Pinnacle Rock, a towering spearheaded obelisk that rises from the ocean’s edge and is the best known landmark in the islands. Galápagos penguins—the only species of penguin found north of the equator—walk precariously along narrow volcanic ledges at its base. Sea lions snooze on rocky platforms, ready to slide into the water to play with passing snorkelers. Just below the surface, shoals of tropical fish dodge in and out of the rocks past urchins, sea stars and anemones. A perfectly crescent, pink-and-white sandy beach lies just to the east of the pinnacle. Sea turtles use the beach as a nesting site and can sometimes be found wading in the shallow water near the shore, or resting in the sand to recover from the arduous task of digging nests, laying eggs and covering them over.
Penguins dot the nearby rocks of the next landing site, less than a kilometer along the eastern shore. Here the submerged walls of a tiny volcanic crater give the impression of a fountain pool. This dry landing—no wet feet!—is the entrance to a 600-meter (2000-foot) pathway complete with stairs and boardwalks leading to Bartolome’s summit. The route is not difficult and presents a museum of vulcanology; a site left untouched after its last eruption, where cones stand in various stages of erosion and lava tubes form bobsled-like runs from the summit. At the top you will be rewarded with spectacular views of Santiago Island and James Bay to the west, and far below, Pinnacle Rock and our beach, where the crystal blue waters of the bay cradle your yatch.

DAY 03: Breakfast. For the morning, we´ll have an exciting walking where we´ll enjoy of a singular morning of sun and beach shared with iguanas and marine birds at TORTUGA BAY (TURTLE BAY). In the afternoon, after lunch we will go to the top of the island, the Rancho Primicias in which we share with the giant tortoises in their natural habitat, also cross the lava tunnels and special know the Twin Craters, impressive volcanic formations. Return to hotel. Accommodation

DAY 05: Breakfast. Transfer to the Airport of Baltra. END OF OUR SERVICES.