YACHT TIP TOP II
4 days / 3 nights Itinerary
4 DAYS / 3 NIGHTS CRUISE
(Friday - Monday)
EAST
DAY |
AM |
PM |
FRIDAY |
BALTRA |
Bachas Beach (WA/SN) |
SATURDAY |
El Barranco Prince Phillip’s Steps (WA/KY/PR/SN) |
Darwin Bay (WA/KY/PR/SN) |
SUNDAY |
South Plaza (WA) |
Santa Fe (WA/KY/PR/SN) |
MONDAY |
Santa Cruz, Twin Craters (WA) |
Baltra |
SN SNORKEL, KY KAYAK, PR PANGA RIDE, WA WALKING
Friday, Day 1
Flight from mainland Ecuador (Quito or Guayaquil) to Baltra, with LATAM Airlines; arriving at 09:20 a.m. approximately. Your guide will meet you at arrivals gate, our crew will take care of your luggage. Your guide will conduct you to a bus and after a short 5-kilometer ride to the pier; you board the Yacht immediately. As the crew weighs anchor, we greet you with our first orientation and we offer a light snack. After navigating, we disembark on Playa Las Bachas, a place where you can appreciate a Flamingos lagoon. During all walks, your guide will be explaining details about the lives of the birds and animals. Optional: time for those who would like to swim and snorkel, in the evening you have an orientation about the Galapagos Islands in general: their origin and evolution. Welcome cocktail with the entire crew, and dinner
Saturday, Day 2
After breakfast, you take a panga ride and you make a dry landing on Prince Phillips’s Steps (Barranco), you walk and observe the interesting lives of the birds here. Optional: time for those who would like to swim and snorkel or kayak. You come on board for a delicious lunch. Later in the afternoon, you make a wet landing on Darwin Bay to walk and observe frigate birds, herons, mockingbirds, boobies, shorebirds, turtles, marine iguanas, etc. Optional: time for those who would like to swim, snorkel or kayak. Dinner on the Yacht, and then your orientation about conservation efforts made to protect the Islands.
Sunday, Day 3
After breakfast, you make a dry landing on the pier of the South Plaza, there you can enjoy the antics of the sea lions. A walk through a cactus forest allows us to observe land iguanas and many species of tropical birds. Return to the Yacht for lunch. Then, you make a wet landing on Santa Fe Island to visit the cactus forest and a colony of land iguanas native from Santa Fe. Optional: time for those who would like to swim, snorkel or kayak. At the end of the afternoon, we return to the Yacht for dinner and our nightly orientation.
Monday, Day 4
After breakfast, you make a dry landing on Puerto Ayora port, after a short drive, you arrive at the Twin Crater, where you will do a fast visit.
Your guide accompanies you on the bus ride directly to the airport.