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Extensive Galapagos Adventure

Starting from INR 566990

Overview Details

8 days
5 to 15
January - December

Description

Explore three corners of the Galapagos Islands aboard the classically luxurious and intimate M/V Evolution.

Follow in Darwin’s footsteps as you encounter the incredible natural beauty of the Galapagos archipelago on the luxurious M/V Evolution. Stand side by side with an array of undaunted exotic animals as you hop from volcanic outcrops to rainforest-coated islands with white silky beaches.

Overview

Follow in Darwin’s footsteps as you encounter the incredible natural beauty of the Galapagos archipelago on the luxurious M/V Evolution. Stand side by side with an array of undaunted exotic animals as you hop from volcanic outcrops to rainforest-coated islands with white silky beaches. Snorkel with sea lions and Galapagos penguins, and pose with red-footed boobies and marine iguanas. The charming expedition yacht M/V Evolution, accommodating just 32 guests will be your home from home on your journey into the extraordinary.

WHAT MAKES THIS TRIP EXTRAORDINARY

  • Get up-close and personal with the wildlife of the Galapagos Islands.
  • Explore spectacular scenery from volcanic outcrops to white-sandy beaches.
  • Opportunity to snorkel and kayak with marine wildlife.
  • Enjoy two excursions per day from the luxurious M/V Evolution

Itinerary

Arrive at the airport in San Cristobal & transfer to the dock. Check-in to your cabin before attending an introductory briefing and safety drill. After lunch you head to your first visitor site Ochoa Beach, a beautiful white coral sand beach next to a turquoise bay and home to a small colony of sea lions. End your day at Kicker Rock, a spectacular rock formation that rises 152 meters (500 feet) out of the Pacific. It takes the form of a sleeping lion, but from another angle you can see that the rock is split, forming a colossal tablet piercing the sea. Return on board for a welcome cocktail and dinner.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(L, D)

After breakfast, it’s your chance to see land iguanas on South Plaza Island. As you wander through the interesting flora, including bright red carpet weed you will see nesting swallow-tailed gulls, red-billed tropicbirds, frigatebirds and shearwaters flying with dancing displays. After lunch, enjoy some snorkelling at Punta Carrion followed by a visit to Daphne Island. The geology of this island is extremely interesting thanks to the large tuff cone – a huge pile of compacted volcanic ash shaped like a cone.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

There is a small sea lion cove on the north shore, where boats anchor and land at the visitor site. Later that morning you’ll have an opportunity to snorkel with sea lions and penguins and to swim in the cove. After lunch take a visit to James Bay, where you land on a black beach with intriguing eroded rock formations. The trail leads to a series of crystal-clear grottos formed of broken lava tubes, which are home to sea lions, fur seals, marine iguanas and tropical fish.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

Here you will enjoy a stroll past several species of birds, including iconic frigatebirds, red-footed boobies, Nazca boobies and lava gulls. You will also get the opportunity to swim and snorkel at this beautiful, natural harbour. After lunch, your team will take you to Prince Phillips Steps as you walk up this steep staircase you will discover a huge seabird colony full of life. Once at the top, the land is flat which allows for a gentler walk to the other side of the island observing large numbers of red-footed boobies, large frigatebirds and storm petrels. A real birder’s paradise!

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

From here a trail will take you to see sea lions, land and marine iguanas, blue-footed boobies, pelicans and magnificent frigatebirds. In the afternoon you will visit Santa Fe Island, home to one of the most beautiful and sheltered bays of the archipelago; its crystal clear waters make it ideal for snorkelling. It’s certainly one of the best locations to see sea turtles, swim with sea lions and get a glimpse of the Galapagos white-tipped shark. After a wet landing you will walk up to a nearby cliff to see the land iguanas through an area of Opuntia Cactus.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

Floreana Island has a colourful history, please do just ask your guides and they will be more than happy to regale the stories. In the morning you visit Post Office Bay, where in 1793 British whalers set up a barrel as the island‘s Post Office, to send letters home on passing ships. The tradition continues to this day, simply by dropping a post card into the barrel without a stamp and crossing your fingers that it may eventually arrive at its destination. After lunch, visit Punta Cormorant which offers two highly contrasting beaches; a green-olivine beach and an iron-red beach. Between the two beaches is a salt lagoon frequented by flamingos, pintails, stilts and other wading birds. Late afternoon snorkelling at Devil's Crown, which is home to a myriad of marine species including a variety of corals, pencil sea urchin, wrasses, angelfish and amberjacks, makes for some of the best snorkelling in the Galapagos.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

Santa Cruz is the second largest island in the Galapagos and its economic capital. In the morning you can visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to visit the Giant Tortoise and Land Iguana Breeding and Rearing Program. After lunch on board you head off to the highlands where dry coastal vegetation transitions into lush wet fields and forests overgrown with moss and lichens. Your destination is the Tortoise Reserve, where you will have chance see these animals in the wild, walk through lava tubes and see Los Gemelos, the twin collapsed craters.

Overnight: M/V Evolution(B, L, D)

Today your Galapagos cruise comes to an end, but before you say your goodbyes to your home from home, the Evolution and her crew, you pay a visit to the Galapagos National Park Visitor Centre on San Cristobal Island. This centre presents a comprehensive exhibition of the islands’ varied history and your naturalist will use the exhibits to provide an illustrated overview of life on the islands. A short trail arrives at Frigate Bird Hill, where both “magnificent-frigates” and “great-frigates” can be seen in the same colony. Next you return to the airport where you began your journey in the Galapagos for the flight back to Ecuadorian mainland

Accommodation

  • M/V Evolution

Cancellation Policy

Life is unpredictable and we understand that sometimes you have to cancel or change your trip dates and it is our endeavor to make it as easy as possible for you. However, please understand that we plan everything including guide fees, permits, accommodation and ration in advance. Therefore, any cancellation means inconvenience and certain losses to the people involved in various stages of the program. Keeping that in mind, our cancellation charges are as below,

 

  • Cancellations prior to 30 days from the start of the event: Full refund as cash.
  • Cancellations between 30 days and 15 days to the start of the event: 50 % refund as cash.
  • Cancellations less than 15 days to the start of the event: No refund.
  • Cancellations will be accepted only by email.

 

Note: We reserve the right to cancel a program before departure in the event of logistical problems arising due to natural calamities, strikes, wars or any other circumstances that make the event inadvisable. In this case, we will refund 50% of the event fees.

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