The adventure begins! Arrive to San Cristobal island, on the far east side of the Galapagos islands.

You can only arrive by air from Quito or Guayaquil on the mainl land Ecuador. The flight takes approx 1,5 hour (600 miles of Ecuador coast).

As you arrive to the airport, you are welcome by very friendly bilingual naturalist guide. We board the local taxis (pick up trucks) and drive for approx. 8 minutes to local restaurant in the middle of town.

Your lugagge will be taken directly to the hotel. After a tasty lunch (usually fish), you admire the local atmosphere of town.

After lunch you will be taken to your hotel. Hotel is located on top of a hill, very closet o one of towns main beach.

Hotel is small and cozy, providing a home feeling. Check in hotel, and get ready to go out again.

Our first stop, is to try out gear for the next few days. We take you to our Friends shop, where you will try wet-suit, snorkel mask, fins and all propper equipment to go into water.

After you are all set with the gear, we will go towards south fase of the island to the Loberia beach.

The hike across to Loberia, takes us through a beach path, where the first thing we see is beach morning glory with powerful waves breaking no more than 10 meters from us. For this activity we use our off road chairs, which let us hike through the path in a comfortable, safe and accessible way.

We continue the hike, observing mangroves that go across the beach path, contrasting with huge lava rocks where we find black marine iguanas bathing in the sun, absorving as much sun rays as possible.

On a lucky day, we will cross along the path with some iguanas, and if not we certainly can appreciate them from a distance. We continue our hike, going through carpetweed sections, where the famous round finch birds are spotted.

As we get closer to the beach, we will also spot yellow warblers that come and go very curious of our presence.

Finally we arrive to the spot where we will go into the water. Our first encounter will be palyfull sea lions lying down 5 feet away from us. We will ge tour gear ready, and with the assistance of our trained staff, you will be taken inside the water.

We will take as long as you need, to make sure the process of going into the water is smooth and safe. The place where we snorkel is a natural bay, where water comes in, and forms some sort of pond, which is home of many animals.

Once inside the water, you will be wearing a safety vest, as well as holding on to a flotation rim. We will go around the water and depending on the day, you will see clamsel fish, parrot fish, sunset wrasses, sea cucumbers, sea urchens, stripped salema among others.

On a lucky day, we will have sea lions pubs swiming with us and maybe a marine tortoise……simply wonderful!!! When it is time, we will get out of the water, same process as going in, providing all assistance for you to get out in a safe and comfortable way.

We will have some time at the beach, admiring frigate birds on sky. On the way back we will spot lava gulls and a stunning sunset from the beach. At night you will have a delicious dinner with the first of many walks across the boardwalk. This is the best way to finish the day as you will see colonies of sea lions coming into the beach for the night.

You will be able to see them, hear them and even interact with them. Time to go back to hotel for a well deserved rest 😊

Meals included (L - D)

After your breakfast we will take a taxi to the high part of the islands. Not everybody is aware that you can reach by car up to 650 meters above sea level at San Cristobal islands.

We will admire the change in vegetation, climate and landscape. As we start going down at the east side of the island we will reach the Gian Tourtle breeding center. This is a semi-natural location where more than 20 giant adult tourtles (females and males) wonder around. We will be able to admire this giant reptiles eating one of their favorite meal.. the “posion apple fruit”. and liquines.

This center was created in order to monitor the population of giant tourtles as well as to study their behaivor and increase the number of the population. You will use our off road chair to be able to visit the Center.

You will continue the adventure by visiting Puerto Chino beach. To reach Puerto Chino we will take a path through dry forest, where you will be introduced to 2 of the 3 kinds of cactus in the islands.

The opuntia cactus and the chandelier cactus. We will admire some representative cactus species as we continue down in the path, observing finch nest, mucking brids on branches, marking sonia ever green plants and lava lizards as we approach the beach. The beach on a sunny day has turquoise cristal clear water and fine sand.

We will have some minutes to enjoy the beach. Our next stop will be a restaurant on the hills, overlooking the beach.

We will enjoy organic food as we have stuinning landscape.

Return to town. At around 15h30 we will take you to the beach where top of the notch kayaks will be waiting fo you. We will use our equipment to transfer and secure you safely to the kayaks.

In each kayak we will have a guest wtih an experienced kayaker at the back to do the paddling.. Off we go into cristal clear waters in front of the bay.

We will go through the different boats and sail boats parked in the harbour and head towards the bay where lava rocks are used by blue footed boobies.

As we paddle across the bay, in company of playfull sea lions, we will observe some nesting área for Brown pelicans. Certainly along the way we will see blue footed boobies diving from the sky in search of fish.

We will get to places only accessible by kayak, where we will be so close to the lava rocks to observe Brown noodle nesting, swallow tail gull, frigates and why not…marine tortoises on the water.

We will return to the bay at sunset time to finish our kayak experience. Dinner will include tasty sea food. Of course we will have our traditional walk around the boardwalk

Meals included (B - L - D)

Day begins early with a morning transfer to local peer at San Cristobal.

While at the peer, if lucky we will have sealions joining us as we trasnfer you to local boat taxis at peer.

You are safely transfer into small boats, where you remain in your wheelchair.

We will head towards our boat harbor in the bay. Once at the boat, we will safely transfer you to the boat deck. Once at the deck, you have time to organize yourself, put away your gear (snorkel, mask, fins), apply one more layer of sun screan, get your music ready and admire the view as we start heading out of Puerto Baquerizo bay.

As we leave the bay, our naturalist guide will give you a warm welcome explaining the activities and locations we will visit during the day.

As the boat starts traveling, we will cross the lava rocks on shore, admiring blue footed boobies and pelicans. Our boat crew will make sure we have jugs of ice tea, coffee and fruit at your disposal.

The ride on the boat goes slow, as the idea is to admire the magic of the ocean, why not sometimes we can spot dolphins and/or spotted rays joining our tour. It is nature, so each time is a different view and a different experience. As we continue our ride, we will start seeing two big formations on the horizon. One is Kicker Rock and the other one is Cerro Brujo.

We will set course towards Cerro Brujo. After approx 2 hours of boat riding, we arrive to this white-thin sand beach. We will have a wet disembark, which means, we will use our beach floatable chairs, to get you very close to the beach.

Once we safely take you to the beach, a new adventure begins as we will go through this very thin sand beach, observing how blue footed boobies, brown pelicans dive over and over right in front of us in search of fish.

As the walk at the beach continues we will observe the brown noddy tern lying in the rocks, curious with your visit. As the beack walk continues, we will go into the cristal clear waters to have a picture taken as well as to simply enjoy, capture the moment. We will be transfered into the boat once again to start heading towards Kicker Rock.

This is the perfect time to enjoy a tasty lunch. Kicker rock is an ancient and eroded volcanic lava tuff cone. It is formed by two rocks approximately 150 meters/485 feet tall.

Between the 2 rocks there is a canal exceptional for swimming, taking pictures, scuba diving and snorkeling. As we approach this rock formation, you will be amazed by the beauty and impressive shape of the rocks. We will start getting our gear on. We will assist you to get your wet-suit on, try the mask, fins, etc.

The disembark to the location is done by accessing a flat platform at the back end of the boat. We will provide safety jackets, floating rings and one to one assistance once inside the water. The main idea is to feel safe, so you can fully enjoy the experience.

Once inside the water, we start swiming next to the rock formation. On an average day you can spot sea turtles, galapagos sharks, white tipped reef sharks, soft corals attached to the wll, spongies of various colors (red, blue, yellow), Orange cup corals, sea urgins, big school of salamas, mexican hog fish, yellow tail surgeonfish, rainbow wras fish, King angelfish among many others……Simply one of the best experiences…….

As you come out of the water thinking you have seen it all, you will be totally amazed by the birds flying around the rocks. You will observe frigate birds, nazca boobies, blue footed boobies, tropic red beak birds and shear waters.

Once out of the water, you will get dry, eat fruit and a snack, maybe a coffee to regain body temperatura, and start heading back to town.

This is simply one of the best experiences you can have on a day tour at GALAPAGOS. Arrive to town around 16h30 pm.

Transfer to your hotel, rest, and sunset observation at the bay

Meals included (B - L - D)

The adventure finishes

As day begins we visit the Interpreatation Center located in the Playa Mann area. We will visit this cozy center, where we are firstly introduced to the formation of the islands and the different circunstances that explain why Galapagos is very unique and diverse.

We are amazed to learn about the hot spot of Galapagos and/or the cold and warm currents that colapses at Equator to head towards Galapagos, given unique circunstances to have such a different and diverse marine life.

After we learn everything there is to learn about weather, ocean platform and currents, we continue the visit by exploring the discovery of Galapagos, by Tomas de Berlanga back in the 1500´s along with the first attempts to live in the islands during the centuries to follow.

Finally the center presents a present life situation where the main strenghts, weakness, opportunities and threats are considered to set the different actions people need to follow in order to preserve this magical place.

As the visit to the center finishes, we follow a rock path (accessible) up the hill towards a dry forest vegetation.

This is a prefect place to observe one more time the lava lizards as well as chandelier cactus all over the path. As we go along the dry forest path, we notice certain lookout points which allows us to observe town from a distance or simply admire the ocean and the locations we have visited the days before.

Finally we reach to the “Tijeretas” look out point, which stands approx 30 meters above the bay, where cristal turquoise waters reflect our visión. If lucky we be able even to spot some marine life from this lookout point. We start our journey back to town, going through Playa Mann beach.

Finally we reach the boardwalk one more time for a last minute souveneer shopping or simply say good bye to this spectacular cozy town.

Trasnfer to the airport. End of the adventure

Meals included (B)