Full Dive Adventure in Galapagos

(8 Days / 7 Nights)

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Santa Cruz, Floreana, Isabela

Introduction

We will take you to enjoy a Full Adventure in the Galapagos Islands: Santa Cruz, Floreana and Isabela in our original Red Mangrove style. With only a short navigation from island to island, you will experience the best of each.

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Day 1: Quito or Guayaquil - Santa Cruz

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AM

Baltra Airport.

Ferry crossing to Santa Cruz Island (10-minute ride). Arrival at Santa Cruz around 11:30 AM (depending on your flight schedule).

PM

After lunch the adventure starts with an Academy Bay dive at Loberia where we will do a 1 tank check out dive and get a taste of what is to come!

Tropical fish abound with the chance to see white tip reef sharks, sea lions and rays!

Briefing and Dinner at Aventura lodge.

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Day 2: Santa Cruz - Floreana

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AM

Breakfast at the Lodge.

Diving in Santa Cruz. with opportunities to see Eagle Rays, Manta Rays, Hammerheads, White-Tipped Reef Sharks, Galapagos Shark, Stingrays, Marbled Rays, Tiger Snake Eels, Moray Eels, Garden Eels, Sea Stars, Sea Turtles, Jacks, Blue and Gold Snappers, Flag Cabrilla, Creolefish, King Angelfish, Barracuda, Heiroglyphic Hawkfish, Frogfish, Yellowtail Surgeonfish, Spotfin Burrfish, Scorpionfish, Cardinalfish, Nudibranch and more!

PM

Lunch will be served at the hotel

After that, departure to Floreana, our navigation will take two hours approximately, according to sea conditions.

Arrival at Floreana Island.

Visit to Black Beach to enjoy this beautiful spot and swim, snorkel, or simply relax by enjoying the special scenery

Check in at Floreana Lodge

BBQ dinner at a local restaurant to enjoy Galapagueña food and the warm hospitality of one of the first families to arrive at the island and learn from them about the mysteries of Floreana.

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Day 3: Floreana

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AM

Breakfast at a local restaurant.

Diving in Floreana. with opportunities to see Green Sea Turtles, Eagle Rays, Manta Rays, Hammerheads, White-Tipped Reef Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, Stingrays, Marbled Rays, Tiger Snake Eels, Moray Eels, Garden Eels, Sea Stars, Sea Turtles, Jacks, Blue and Gold Snappers, Flag Cabrilla, Creolefish, King Angelfish, Barracuda, Heiroglyphic Hawkfish, Frogfish, Yellowtail Surgeonfish, Spotfin Burrfish, Scorpionfish, Cardinalfish, Nudibranch and more!

After that, lunch at a local restaurant.

PM

After lunch enjoy an exciting walk to "la lobería" one of the most beautiful spots in Floreana where you can observe sea lions playing around.

Also you will have time to discover the amazing wildlife around the town and be ready to take great pictures and capture the beauty of the Islands as a reminder of this memorable experience.

Dinner at a local restaurant.

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Day 4: Floreana - Isabela

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AM

Breakfast at the local restaurant

Diving in Floreana. with opportunities to see Green Sea Turtles, Eagle Rays, Manta Rays, Hammerheads, White-Tipped Reef Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, Stingrays, Marbled Rays, Tiger Snake Eels, Moray Eels, Garden Eels, Sea Stars, Sea Turtles, Jacks, Blue and Gold Snappers, Flag Cabrilla, Creolefish, King Angelfish, Barracuda, Heiroglyphic Hawkfish, Frogfish, Yellowtail Surgeonfish, Spotfin Burrfish, Scorpionfish, Cardinalfish, Nudibranch and more!

Departure at 11:00 AM for Isabela.

Sailing time is 1.5 to 2 hours.

We will arrive at Isabela between 12:30 and 1:00 PM. Arriving in the port is a visual feast, with stunning green and turquoise water so clear you can see turtles, sea lions, and penguins as though looking through glass. We will check into the Red Mangrove Isabela Lodge and have a hot, wholesome lunch. (Time may change according to sea conditions).

PM

Departure to "Las Tintoreras" and Bay Tour.

After lunch, we will board a smaller craft to head out across the port, slowing down to view blue-footed boobies and Galapagos penguins sharing the same rocky sunbathing space, before turning a bend and docking. From there we take an intriguing walk through a jagged lava field, passing abundant colonies of marine iguanas, to see a small canal full of resting white-tipped reef sharks.

If the tide is low, they are sometimes a mere two feet below the surface.

The views from here are something you may carry with you for the rest of your life! The black, treacherous lava field, the emerald green sea, the forest green mangrove, and the cloud-capped volcanoes of Isla Isabela create an afternoon backdrop you are not likely to ever forget.

Once you return to the dock, you can snorkel in this warm, shallow bay surrounded by mangrove, for an opportunity to see white-tipped reef sharks, sea lions, penguins, and, of course, the mystery of the mangrove below the surface.

Don't worry, white-tipped reef sharks are not aggressive, merely fascinating.

We'll have a bit of time to relax and shower before briefing and dinner in the Lodge at 7:00.

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Day 5: Isabela

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AM

After breakfast you will depart for 4 Hermanos for 2 dives where you will have a chance to see Sea Horses, Mantas, Stingrays, Sea Turtles, White-Tipped Reef Sharks, Hammerheads, King Angelfish, Yellowtail Surgeonfish, Barberfish, Blue-Chin Parrotfish, Bumphead Parrotfish, Galapagos Groupers, Galapagos Sheephead, Harlequin Wrasse, Grey Grunts, Tuna, Barracuda, Corals, Tubes and more. Possibility of Sunfish and Orcas.

PM

Return to the lodge for lunch then enjoy a free afternoon to enjoy the 3 ½ Kilometer white sand beach or take the complimentary bicycles to explore Puerto Villamil at your leisure.

Briefing and dinner at the Lodge.

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Day 6: Isabela

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AM

After breakfast you will depart for 4 Hermanos for 2 dives where you will have a chance to see Sea Horses, Mantas, Stingrays, Sea Turtles, White-Tipped Reef Sharks, Hammerheads, King Angelfish, Yellowtail Surgeonfish, Barberfish, Blue-Chin Parrotfish, Bumphead Parrotfish, Galapagos Groupers, Galapagos Sheephead, Harlequin Wrasse, Grey Grunts, Tuna, Barracuda, Corals, Tubes and more. Possibility of Sunfish and Orcas.

PM

Late lunch at Isabela Lodge, time to relax and discover Isabela on your own.

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Day 7 : Isabela - Santa Cruz

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AM

Breakfast at the Lodge.

Departure to Humedales Tour. We begin with a drive out of town along the most beautiful, white sand, palm lined beach in all of Galapagos, Long Beach. This beach, straight from the cover of a travel magazine, stretches on for 3 kilometers before the National Park where we walk up the trail for astounding views from the top of Cerro Orchilla

Visit the "Muro de Las Lagrimas" (Wall of Tears), a unique construction built by the backbreaking of prisoners of a penal colony centuries before. The path to the Wall of Tears is abundant with lava lizards, the males are larger and striped and the females red-throated.

PM

Lunch at Isabela Lodge and depart to Santa Cruz.
Sailing time is 1.5 to 2 hours

1:00 pm Depart from Isabela to Santa Cruz.

Arrive in Puerto Ayora and check in at Aventura Lodge.

Then, to a guided tour to the fascinating Charles Darwin Research Station where you can learn about the whole Galapagos and meet the most famous giant tortoise: Lonesome George.

Dinner and overnight at Aventura Lodge

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Day 8: Santa Cruz to Quito or Guayaquil

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AM

Breakfast at the lodge.

Depart 3 hours before your flight in order to arrive back at the Baltra Airport the requested 1.5 hours before your flight.

Transport and guide included from the hotel to the airport.

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Rates

2011 RATES: starting from $3.773 per person in standard double room. To 2012 RATES, please do not hesitate contact us.

Important Notes:

Rates include:

10% Service Charge as per Ecuadorian Law.
All Meals mentioned on the programs.
Soft drinks during meals.
Excursions with a Freelance English speaking Naturalist guide, provided by the Galapagos National Park.
Free internet wireless service while in Santa Cruz and Isabela.
When in Puerto Ayora free use of bikes.
25% discount for children under 10 years old.
All snorkeling gear.
All diving equipment except dive computers which can be rented separately.

Rates do not include:

Air ticket to /from Galapagos
Entrance fee to the Galapagos National Park ($100 International visitors and $6 Ecuadorians)
Control Visitor Card ($10)
Personal expenses
Alcoholic Beverages
Gratuities