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Luxury Galapagos Cruise 4d/3n
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Step into Chalres Darwin's footsteps and discover the unique Galapagos islands with its diverse animals. With Journey I Deluxe Catamaran
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Description
The M/C Galapagos Journey I is one of the most luxurious boats cruising the Galapagos Islands. This is due to a dedication in designing the most comfortable catamaran available.
Our shore excursions are packed full of several activities, shore excursionss and lots of fun. A typical visit to a landing site includes a nature hike, zodiac ride, snorkeling or kayaking and of course time out to relax on the beach. Throughout these activities, your guide will bring out the best of the Islands, sharing knowledge and fun facts about the Islands natural history.
Each meal on board is a treat for the taste buds as our chef prepares the finest internaFine diningtional and local dishes using fresh ingredients of the highest quality. All meals include the choice of meat, poultry or seafood. We can also cater for vegetarians and individuals with other dietary choices and needs. Salads are freshly tossed and fresh fruit is always available. We also have a selection of the best wines from around the world to compliment your meals if that is your beverage of choice. If not we have a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to take your fancy.
All of our guides are certified by the Galapagos National Park and Knoleadgeable guideshave gone through intensive training programs. They have several years of experience and a strong passion for sharing their knowledge of the wildlife, biology, geology and natural history of the islands. You will find that your guide is obsessed with the conservation of the Islands and is very strict when it comes to following and enforcing Galapagos park guidelines and rules. Your guide will be eager to share his knowledge, giving on-sight briefings during your shore excursions as well as evening lectures.
You will find that apart from being a spacious and Well equiped boatcomfortable yacht, the M/C Galapagos Journey I carries state of the art navigation and communication equipment onboard. It also carries snorkeling gear, wetsuits, sea kayaks, a DVD player with a flat screen TV and other amenities for your entertainment.
After a full day of visits you will get to learn a little more about Nature Lecturesthe sights you visited and will be able to ask your guide specific questions about wildlife, geology, marinelife, biology, and other topics that interest you regarding the Islands. You will find your evening briefings are also a great opportunity to get to know your fellow travellers and share anecdotes from the days activities.
Catamaran information for Journey I:
• Power Catamaran
• 6 standard cabins ( 14m2/ 151 square feet each)
• 2 suites
• Individual climate control
• Private facilities, locker and closet
• Social areas
• Comfortable dinning room
• Outside bar on the upper deck
• Living room with TV, DVD player, and stereo system
• Jacuzzi and spacious sun deck
• 8 crew members
Included:
• All transfers and transportation with a bilingual guide
• 4days/3 nights on board (Luxury yacht)
• Double accommodation with private bathroom
• All meals as listed (B: breakfast L: lunch D: dinner)
• Daily excursions to the islands with a naturalist bilingual guide
• Transfers to/from the Islands from/to the boat
• Snorkelling equipment and kayaks
Not included:
• Galapagos National Park fee US$ 100 per person (subject to change)
• Ecuadorian international departure tax US$ 40.80 per person (subject to change)
• INGALA identity card for the entrance to Galapagos US$ 10,00
• Alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages
• Wet suits
• Tips, travel insurance, personal expenses, etc.
• Anything not specified
Our shore excursions are packed full of several activities, shore excursionss and lots of fun. A typical visit to a landing site includes a nature hike, zodiac ride, snorkeling or kayaking and of course time out to relax on the beach. Throughout these activities, your guide will bring out the best of the Islands, sharing knowledge and fun facts about the Islands natural history.
Each meal on board is a treat for the taste buds as our chef prepares the finest internaFine diningtional and local dishes using fresh ingredients of the highest quality. All meals include the choice of meat, poultry or seafood. We can also cater for vegetarians and individuals with other dietary choices and needs. Salads are freshly tossed and fresh fruit is always available. We also have a selection of the best wines from around the world to compliment your meals if that is your beverage of choice. If not we have a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages to take your fancy.
All of our guides are certified by the Galapagos National Park and Knoleadgeable guideshave gone through intensive training programs. They have several years of experience and a strong passion for sharing their knowledge of the wildlife, biology, geology and natural history of the islands. You will find that your guide is obsessed with the conservation of the Islands and is very strict when it comes to following and enforcing Galapagos park guidelines and rules. Your guide will be eager to share his knowledge, giving on-sight briefings during your shore excursions as well as evening lectures.
You will find that apart from being a spacious and Well equiped boatcomfortable yacht, the M/C Galapagos Journey I carries state of the art navigation and communication equipment onboard. It also carries snorkeling gear, wetsuits, sea kayaks, a DVD player with a flat screen TV and other amenities for your entertainment.
After a full day of visits you will get to learn a little more about Nature Lecturesthe sights you visited and will be able to ask your guide specific questions about wildlife, geology, marinelife, biology, and other topics that interest you regarding the Islands. You will find your evening briefings are also a great opportunity to get to know your fellow travellers and share anecdotes from the days activities.
Catamaran information for Journey I:
• Power Catamaran
• 6 standard cabins ( 14m2/ 151 square feet each)
• 2 suites
• Individual climate control
• Private facilities, locker and closet
• Social areas
• Comfortable dinning room
• Outside bar on the upper deck
• Living room with TV, DVD player, and stereo system
• Jacuzzi and spacious sun deck
• 8 crew members
Included:
• All transfers and transportation with a bilingual guide
• 4days/3 nights on board (Luxury yacht)
• Double accommodation with private bathroom
• All meals as listed (B: breakfast L: lunch D: dinner)
• Daily excursions to the islands with a naturalist bilingual guide
• Transfers to/from the Islands from/to the boat
• Snorkelling equipment and kayaks
Not included:
• Galapagos National Park fee US$ 100 per person (subject to change)
• Ecuadorian international departure tax US$ 40.80 per person (subject to change)
• INGALA identity card for the entrance to Galapagos US$ 10,00
• Alcoholic and non alcoholic beverages
• Wet suits
• Tips, travel insurance, personal expenses, etc.
• Anything not specified
Day 1 Guayaquil - Galapagos
After an early breakfast, you will be met by your guide and transferred to Quito Airport in time to catch your flight to the Galapagos Islands.
The flight from Quito to the Galapagos is approximately 2 ½ hours on a Boeing 727. Upon arrival at Baltra travellers pass through an airport inspection point to insure that no foreign plants or animals are introduced to the islands and to pay the park entrance fee of $100 (unless prepaid), and $10 for the INGALA card which is an identity card that you need . Guides will meet you, collect your luggage and escort you on the short bus ride to the harbour. Motorized rafts, called ‘Pangas’ will transport you to the Journey I and our crew will welcome you onboard. After departure and lunch, the first island visit is made.
Santa Cruz Highlands. The trail to the highlands leaves from Bellavista and passes through the agricultural zone, near the National Park boundary, the Miconia Zone and then goes to the Fern and Sedge zone. With clear weather (unpredictable) this area offers beautiful scenes of rolling hills and extinct volcanic cones covered with grass and lush greenery all year round.
The flight from Quito to the Galapagos is approximately 2 ½ hours on a Boeing 727. Upon arrival at Baltra travellers pass through an airport inspection point to insure that no foreign plants or animals are introduced to the islands and to pay the park entrance fee of $100 (unless prepaid), and $10 for the INGALA card which is an identity card that you need . Guides will meet you, collect your luggage and escort you on the short bus ride to the harbour. Motorized rafts, called ‘Pangas’ will transport you to the Journey I and our crew will welcome you onboard. After departure and lunch, the first island visit is made.
Santa Cruz Highlands. The trail to the highlands leaves from Bellavista and passes through the agricultural zone, near the National Park boundary, the Miconia Zone and then goes to the Fern and Sedge zone. With clear weather (unpredictable) this area offers beautiful scenes of rolling hills and extinct volcanic cones covered with grass and lush greenery all year round.
Day 2 Chinese Hat - Santiago Island - Puerto Egas
Chinese hat (sombrero chino) is a tiny Island just off the south-eastern tip of Santiago Island and is less than a quarter of 1 sq km in size. It is a recently-formed volcanic cone and its descriptive name accounts for the fact that it appears to take the shape of a downward-facing Chinese hat. (The hat shape is best appreciated from the north side.) Opposite Sombrero Chino, on the rocky shoreline of nearby Santiago Island, Galapagos penguins and eagle rays are often seen. The island is home to a large sea lion colony and plenty of marine iguanas who cover the volcanic landscape. There are some excellent snorkeling opportunities in the cove.
The excursion to Puerto Egas with its black sand beaches leads to one of the more rewarding visits of the Galapagos. The island was the site of a small salt mining industry in the 1960s, one of several unsuccessful attempts to commercialize the Galapagos. A hike inland to the salt crater is an excellent opportunity to see land birds such as finches, doves, and hawks. A walk along the rugged shoreline, especially at low tide, will let us observe many marine species as Iguanas bask on the rocks and sea lions laze in the tide pools. At the end of the trail there is a series of grottoes or sea caves where fur seals and night herons are regularly found resting on the shady ledges. For many, this is the only opportunity to see the Galapagos fur seal, once thought to be on the verge of extinction.
The excursion to Puerto Egas with its black sand beaches leads to one of the more rewarding visits of the Galapagos. The island was the site of a small salt mining industry in the 1960s, one of several unsuccessful attempts to commercialize the Galapagos. A hike inland to the salt crater is an excellent opportunity to see land birds such as finches, doves, and hawks. A walk along the rugged shoreline, especially at low tide, will let us observe many marine species as Iguanas bask on the rocks and sea lions laze in the tide pools. At the end of the trail there is a series of grottoes or sea caves where fur seals and night herons are regularly found resting on the shady ledges. For many, this is the only opportunity to see the Galapagos fur seal, once thought to be on the verge of extinction.
Day 3 Santiago Island - Bahia Sullivan - Bartolome Island
This visitor site provides a unique opportunity to view lava flow that is approximately 100 years old. The Sullivan Bay Lava is known a Panoehoe (Hawaiian for Rope) due to the lava flow having solidified in a mostly ropey-like appearance, it is rare to the rest of the world but is common to the volcanoes of Hawaii and Galapagos. Only a few plants have managed to take root in this harsh environment. The low-lying Mollugo is commonly the first plant to emerge from a bare lava field. Together with the Lava Cactus (Brachycereus) found here, these plants are evidence of life returning to Sullivan Bay.
A small barren island that is located across from Sullivan Bay off James Island, Bartolome has two main visitors’ sites. The first site offers the possibility to climb to the summit of the island, from where visitors can observe a variety of volcanic formations including lava bombs spatter and cinder cones, lava flows and lava tubes. The moon like landscape provides one of the most scenic panoramas in the archipelago. At the second site, visitors have the chance to relax on a beautiful beach, which offers great snorkelling opportunities. Multi –coloured fish and occasionally penguins and sea turtles have been seen at the base of the tall pinnacle rock, which dominates Bartolome’s landscape. A short walk across to Bartolome´s second beach and swimming is strictly prohibited. Here visitors can see White-tipped Reef Sharks at a safe distance swimming along the shoreline.
A small barren island that is located across from Sullivan Bay off James Island, Bartolome has two main visitors’ sites. The first site offers the possibility to climb to the summit of the island, from where visitors can observe a variety of volcanic formations including lava bombs spatter and cinder cones, lava flows and lava tubes. The moon like landscape provides one of the most scenic panoramas in the archipelago. At the second site, visitors have the chance to relax on a beautiful beach, which offers great snorkelling opportunities. Multi –coloured fish and occasionally penguins and sea turtles have been seen at the base of the tall pinnacle rock, which dominates Bartolome’s landscape. A short walk across to Bartolome´s second beach and swimming is strictly prohibited. Here visitors can see White-tipped Reef Sharks at a safe distance swimming along the shoreline.
Day 4 Santa Cruz Island - Bachas Beach
Located to the West of Turtle Cove, the sand on these two small beaches is made of decomposed coral. As a result the sand here is very white and soft, making it a favorite nesting site for sea turtles. Behind one of the beaches there is a small water lagoon, where occasionally it is possible to observe flamingos and other coastal birds, such as black-necked stilts and whimbrels. The other beach is longer and has two old barges that were abandoned during the Second World War, when the USA used Baltra Island as a strategic military point in order to protect the Panama Channel. (The metal is rusty and sharp, so it is not a good place for swimming).
These are two small islets that were formed a short distance from the East Coast of Santa Cruz. Despite its small size, some of the most interesting and outstanding species of the archipelago occur here. The principal attractions of Plazas are the land iguanas, sea lions and swallow–tailed gulls. It is possible to observe land iguanas relaxing in the shade of cactus plants and swallow-tailed gulls nesting on the rugged southern cliffs (which we will see along with various other sea birds). And that’s not all as the protected rocky seashore is a prime habitat for a large colony of noisy sea lions. Also we will be able to see yellow – tailed mullets, Audubon’s shearwaters, red-billed tropicbirds, frigate birds, and brown pelicans gliding past the cliffs.
Transfer to Baltra airport Flight to Quito or Guayaquil.
These are two small islets that were formed a short distance from the East Coast of Santa Cruz. Despite its small size, some of the most interesting and outstanding species of the archipelago occur here. The principal attractions of Plazas are the land iguanas, sea lions and swallow–tailed gulls. It is possible to observe land iguanas relaxing in the shade of cactus plants and swallow-tailed gulls nesting on the rugged southern cliffs (which we will see along with various other sea birds). And that’s not all as the protected rocky seashore is a prime habitat for a large colony of noisy sea lions. Also we will be able to see yellow – tailed mullets, Audubon’s shearwaters, red-billed tropicbirds, frigate birds, and brown pelicans gliding past the cliffs.
Transfer to Baltra airport Flight to Quito or Guayaquil.
