The Galapagos Archipelago is home to some of the world's most extraordinary wildlife and got famous when Charles Darwin discovered the Islands in the last century. Any person visiting these islands will enjoy the complete experience of being close to nature. At times it feels as if you are almost at the source of creation.
Our Galapagos charter programs offer an opportunity to visit this famous archipelago, not in large groups of tourists, but in small intimate parties with charter captains and local guides who have lived and explored these islands for many years.

The islands are composed of volcanic rock formations that jut out of the sea, roughly 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. Despite their location on the equator, the climate is temperate due to the cooling Humboldt Current. Temperatures are very comfortable, generally a hot midday, and cooler at night. The islands are stark, yet beautiful, with their eerie moon-like landscapes.
The taller islands have ample rainfall and enormous cactus forests growing over masses of cinder and windswept sand. Exploring these islands you can almost imagine that the world has been newly created and that your footsteps are the first to crunch the cindery soil of this mysterious new land.
Galapagos Cruising

This trip includes 7 nights cruising around the Galapagos Islands. You can select any yacht and cruise length, and we will send you the revised itinerary and prices by email.

Day 1 (Sunday) Arrival in Quito
Upon arrival in Quito transfer to the hotel. Accommodations.

Day 2 Quito
Breakfast at hotel. Around 9am you will be picked up for a tour of Colonial Quito and the Middle of the World (5hrs approx.). Accommodations.

Day 3 Quito / Galapagos
Breakfast at hotel and transfer to the airport to board the flight to Galapagos. The flight from Quito (via Guayaquil) to Baltra airport in Galapagos takes around 2/5 hours. Arrival at the Baltra airport. Transfer by our guide to the yacht. Snack and orientation while traveling to nearby Plazas Sur, large sea lion colonies, land iguanas, opuntia cacti, swallow-tailed gulls, and red-billed tropic birds, etc. Duration of Island visit 2-3 hours. Snorkeling is a must here.

Day 4 Galapagos: Santa Cruz, Charles Darwin Scientific Station and Highlands
Puerto Ayora: Charles Darwin Research Station and walk through town (souvenir shopping if desired) 3 hours. The lush greenery of the Santa Cruz Highlands is a definite contrast with the arid scenery of the smaller, lower islands. A point of interest is the famed lava tunnels, a fun and geologically informative visit.

Day 5 Galapagos: Española, Gardner Bay/Punta Suarez
Gardner Bay (Hood Island). Snorkeling at beach and panga ride 2 1/2 hours. Pm: Punta Suarez: Large colonies of blue-footed boobies, masked boobies, marine iguanas, albatrosses, swallow- tailed gulls, 3-4 hours.

Day 6 Galapagos: Floreana, Punta Cormorant and Post Office Bay
Punta Cormorant (Floreana). Visit of a lagoon, where we find flamingoes and other birds, beautiful white sand beachs where sea turtles nest, snorkeling at Devils point. 3 hours.
Post Office Bay (Floreana). Short visit to the historic Post Office Barrel. Early departure to the island Isabela looking for whales and dolphins while we travel.

Day 7 Galapagos: Isabela, Punta Moreno and Bahia Elizabeth
Punta Moreno (isabela) 3 hours walk, lava fields, flamingo lagoons, some cormorants and penguins. Bahia Elizabeth: Panga ride, penguins, cormorants, sea turtles, quiet mangrove lagoons. 3 hours.

Day 8 Galapagos: Isabela,Urbina Bay and Isla Fernandina: Punta Espinoza
Urvina Bay: Relatively long walk to see land iguanas and marine iguanas, variety of native and endemic plants, remains of raised seabed exposing corral heads and other marine fossils. Nesting cormorants and sometimes a few Galapagos Tortoises in their natural habitat. From 3 to 3.5 hours. Punta Espinoza (Fernandina Island). Large colonies of marine iguanas, flightless cormorants nesting, penguins, baby sea lions, snorkeling. 2 hours.

Day 9 Galapagos: Santiago, Puerto Egas and Bartolome Island
Puerto Egas (Santiago). Coastal walk exploring the great variety of tidal marine life, Galapagos fur seals. Swimming and snorkeling - 3 hours. Pm. Bartholomew: Walk to get panoramic view of Bartholomew and its famous Pinnacle Rock. Swimming and snorkeling. Possibility to see lots of penguins. 3 hour

Day 10 Galapagos/ Quito
La Cueva de la Tortuga Negra (Black Turtle Cove). Here you will get to know the Galapagos green sea turtles that really are green, not black as in the name of the location. Return to Baltra in time for flight to mainland Ecuador.
Arrival in Quito and transfer to the hotel. Accommodations.

Day 11
Breakfast at hotel and transfer to airport for your international flight.

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The - YCT - Yacht Charter Team.