Incredible experiences await you

Santa Cruz highlands is a bird watcher’s paradise and home to the Galapagos giant tortoises, the largest living species of tortoises in the world.

The famous Genovesa Island is rich in fauna, such as red-billed tropicbirds, fur seals, wedge-romped storm-petrels, great frigate birds, red-footed boobies.

Dragon Hill is a nesting ground for endemic land iguanas, while Santa Fe’s white sand beaches and cactus forests are inhabited by diverse species.

Mosquera Islet is a home to sea lion colonies, lava gulls and herons, and Santiago islands is a veritable heaven for bird and marine wildlife watchers.

Isabela island offers awe-inspiring views of the Alcedo Volcano, and the uplifted coral reef resulting from seismic activity, as well as the 35 cm-tall Galapagos penguins, the only penguin species living in the tropics.

Fernandina island is where you can spot the most primitive-looking marine iguanas and snorkel in deep waters teeming in marine life.

Bartolome island delights with its rare volcanic scene resembling a lunar landscape and snorkelling that ensures an up-close-and-personal experience with Galapagos penguins, white-tipped sharks and sea lions.

South Plaza and North Seymour are home to frigate birds, blue-footed boobies and swallow-tail gulls.

At Black Turtle Cove, there are no landing sites, so you have to take the panga or kayak to see black turtles mating in the mangrove-lined waters, groups of hammer head sharks and schools of golden rays.

San Cristobal island is inhabited by three booby species, and black-neck stilts and ruddy turnstones in a hidden lagoon, and home to the La Galapaguera giant tortoise breeding center. a semi-natural habitat dedicated to recovering the population of the largest tortoise species in the world.

Observe the hybrid iguana, the result of breeding between a male marine iguana and female land iguana, watch the courtship ritual of the endemic Waved-Albatross at Suarez Point.

See the 19th century Post Office Bay, where visitors to the island come to sift through letters and cards to take home and deliver by hand.

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