Details & Itinerary
Day 1 – Transfer airport
Hotel and an introductory briefing about the week’s events. We will have a surfing session in one of the island’s surfing spots depending on the swell that day.
Day 2 – Two surfing
Depending on the ocean’s conditions, we will visit the location with the best waves in order to have 1 or 2 surfing sessions throughout the day.
Day 3 – Highlands
After breakfast your Naturalist Guide will pick you up from the hotel and take you to the trip to The Highland of San Cristobal. On this trip you will visit the historic heritage El Progreso located in the parish of the same name. From there we will continue to El Junco, the only permanent fresh water lake in Galapagos. It is located at 659 meters above sea level on an amazing volcano crater which gives a 360 degree view of the island. After we will continue with a short drive to La Galapaguera at Cerro Colorado, a free range tortoise breeding center managed by the Galapagos National Park. We’ll walk the grounds in search of wild giant tortoises and learn about the efforts this center makes to support their conservation. Afterwards we will go to the beautiful beach of Puerto Chino.
If the conditions allow it, we will try to get a surf session after lunch.
Day 4 – Surfing
Depending on the ocean’s conditions, we will visit the location with the best waves in order to have 1 or 2 surfing sessions throughout the day.
Day 5 – 360° Tours
The day will start as you sail across the coast of San Cristobal and either go east or west depending on the day, during your trip you will be able to get a view of some truly hidden sides of this magic island, a sweet water waterfall that goes out to sea, Bahia Sardina is one of the stops where you will hopefully see sea turtle nests, another stop is Bahia Rosa Blanca a beautiful white sand beach that has an enchanting mangrove growing side to side with the water, you might get to snorkel with baby black tip sharks, also you will cross over Punta Pitt where you can have the chance to see some red footed booby and some more birdwatching. Along the way you will also get to see the majestic Kicker Rock and even shortly snorkel at this wonderful site habitat of hammerhead sharks, black tip sharks, white tip sharks, sea lions, sea turtles and lots of species of fish.
Day 6 – Surfing
Depending on the ocean’s conditions, we will visit the location with the best waves in order to have 1 or 2 surfing sessions throughout the day.
Day 7 – Transfer out
Transfer from the hotel to the airport.