San Cristobal & Santa Cruz- 5 days

Day 1 Transfer in + Tijeretas Bay & Carola Beach

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   Mirador Cerro Tijeretas

   4 hours Admission ticket included

   This hill provides visitors with an impressive view of the bay from one side and the town from the other. The area is also great for observing both the magnificent and great frigatebirds and a diverse array of flora. The site also offers safe snorkeling and swimming.

Day 2 Lobos Island or Kicker Rock

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   Isla Lobos

   4 min Admission ticket included

   The name of this island means "Sea Lion Island". This appropriately named island is ripe with noisy, frolicking, jolly sea lions who will welcome you to their home with open, well, fins. This island also offers great snorkeling opportunities as well as the chance to see blue-footed and Nazca boobies.

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   Kicker Rock

   5 hours Admission ticket included

   You will visit the famous Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido), a volcanic formation amid the ocean. There you will be able to snorkel with sharks, rays, turtles, and if you are lucky also with hammerhead sharks! After lunch on the boat, you will go to a beautiful, pristine beach, where you will have time to relax. In the afternoon you will be back at the port.

Day 3 El Chato Rancho & Charles Darwin Research Station

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   Reserva El Chato

   2 min Admission ticket included

   If you came to the Galápagos to stand face-to-face with a giant tortoise, then you can't pass up a trip to El Chato Tortoise Reserve. But tortoises aren't the only animals to look out for here: As you get acquainted with these immense, dome-shaped creatures, you may even hear the chirp of a Darwin finch or the hoot of a short-ear owl overhead

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   Charles Darwin Research Station

   1 hour Admission ticket included

   The Charles Darwin Research Station is home to turtles ranging from 3-inches (new hatchlings) to 4-feet long. Subspecies of turtles interact with one another and many of the older turtles are accustomed to humans stretching out their heads for a photo opportunity. The babies are kept until they are about four years old and strong enough to survive on their own.

Day 4 Uninhabited Island ( Pinzón, Santa Fé, South Plazas or North Seymour

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   Metropolitan Touring

   4 hours Admission ticket included

   This small island is one of the most important fishing sites for Marine Birds. This place is the reason for many travellers and ornithologists to observe the spectacular and diverse amount of birds of the Galapagos.

Day 5 Airport transfer to Baltra

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   Santa Cruz

   1 hour

   Home to the largest town in the Galapagos, Puerto Ayora, the Island has a large variety of vegetation. Pit craters, Scalesia Forest, cacti and ferns are found in its vegetation zones. The island is comprised of a younger part formed by volcanic cones and lava and an older narrow strip of land formed by uplifted lava flows and tuffs.