6-Day Galapagos Island Hopping: 4 Nights Santa Cruz Island & 1 Night Isabela Island**Shared Tour**

Passengers will be met at Baltra airport by a tourist guide from Turismo Paradise, and then taken to Ninfa Hotel in Santa Cruz Island. We will make an stop to visit the Twin Craters, geological subsidence found in the highest part of the island and in the middle of a forest of scales (endemic vegetation). Passengers can enjoy a beautiful view from the highest place of Santa Cruz Island where there is a rainforest with warm climate and a dense vegetation; by contrast the completely different landscape and environment existing in the lower part of the Island. At visiting the Santa Rosa location within El Chato Reserve, the “Galapagos giant turtles can be observed laying in calm and relax at the beach, or submerged at El Chato Lagoon. This place is also favorable for many wild birds to nest such as Finches, Scarlet Flycatchers, Cattle egrets and the Pachays birds from time to time. Visitors can also walk through a natural lava tunnel illuminated by a dim light, which has been placed by the owners of the stay.

After breakfast (at 7:45am), we will sail for about one hour to get the Santa Fe Island. From the yacht, we can see a forest of endemic cactus that grow in the huge ravines of this island. In addition, in a calm turquoise water inhabited by a colony of pelicans, blue-footed boobies, seagulls and a great number of sea lions you can enjoy practicing snorkeling or swimming by side harmless manta rayas, tropical fishes or occasionally while swimming you may bump into sea turtles. Lunch will be served on board and then we will leave to Playa Escondida where tourists will have time to relax before returning to the hotel.

Departure at 6:30am after breakfast. We board the yacht towards Isabela in a journey of approximately 2 hours. After arriving to Puerto Villamil, we enjoy watching the Flamingos Lagoon as well as the magnificence of the Isabela beach. Later, we have lunch at a local restaurant and then continue our journey to experience – watching from the yacht- the beauty of blue sharks, the colony of marine iguanas and the adorable penguins. Then if you like, the practice of snorkeling is available while tropical fishes, sea turtles and sharks living in these calm crystalline waters can be watched. Return at 6:00pm for dinner.

After breakfast at Isabela Island, we leave at 8:00am to visit the Sierra Negra Volcano, the biggest and most active volcano of these Islands. Its northern flank usually cloudy and misty, allows the growth of a dense vegetation. Here, there is also one of the most important worldwide biological reserve of turtles, iguanas and birds species, which were studied and observed by naturalist Charles Darwin in the XIX century to then write his famous book “The Origin of the Species”. There is another Volcano located at northeast part of the Sierra Negra Volcano - Chico Volcano - with a height of approximately 860 meters above the sea. There is a pedestrian path clearly marked which leads to this Volcano.

Loberia Islot is the ideal place to practice snorkel accompanied by our guides. There you can watch sea lions, multicolored fish and from time to time manta rayas and turtles. From the ravine at Punta Estrada beach, we see a small colony of blue-footed boobies and pelicans. Once disembarking at the dock and after a short trek, we get to the viewpoint of sharks channel and from a height of about 14 to 15 meters you can observe them. Later, we visit Dogs Beach where it can be seen lying on the rocks a colony of marine iguanas, the zayapas (red rock crabs) and occasionally the lava herons. Finally, we get to the Cracks beach, a paradisiacal crystalline waters lagoon where we can swim. Upon return, we will visit the beach of the Germans where you can enjoy the sun and the sea of Galapagos.

After breakfast, we will transfer to the airport to take your flight back to Quito or Guayaquil.