• Galápagos Multiport Adventure

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  • Duration

    8 Days (depart any day)

  • Destinations
    • Galápagos Islands
      • Santa Cruz
      • Floreana
      • Isabela
  • Price

    starting at $

Explore three of the Galápagos Islands like a true local. Enjoy an authentic experience of the Galápagos as you bike, kayak, snorkel, hike and more! This tour is fit for adventurers who are seeking fun and exciting activities. You will also have a one-of-a kind experience of the underwater realm. Go diving or take our Padi courses. If you are not certified, you can ask us for various options available for you.

Highlights

  • Discover the majestic power of nature and the great biodiversity of the Santa Cruz Highlands.
  • Visit the Twin Craters and Lava Tunnels.
  • Have breakfast, lunch and dinner at a local family’s house.
  • See white tip sharks, Galápagos sharks manta rays, and colorful tropical fish.
  • Enjoy the breathtaking views of the black, treacherous lava field, the emerald green sea, the green mangroves, and the cloud-capped volcanoes of Isabela.
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Good to Know:

  • The Galápagos Islands see great weather year-round so there is never a bad time to visit.
  • For your daily excursions, make sure to bring sunscreen, a cap/hat, bathing suit, long-sleeved shirts, camera and appropriate shoes for wet landing and hikes on lava terrain (sneakers or similar with thick soles).

  • Those who aren’t certified divers have other options. Talk to your guide about what you can do.
  • Don’t worry while snorkeling with white-tipped reef sharks: they are not aggressive, but merely fascinating.

  • The Galápagos is the only place in the world where you can snorkel with penguins and sea lions in the same place.
  • With 4 miles across, the crater of Volcan Sierra Negra is the second largest in the world.

Picture by: Oliver Dodd

Day 1: Quito or Guayaquil to Santa Cruz.

Today, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to Baltra, in the Galápagos. From there, you will be assisted and transferred via ferry and bus to Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island. You’ll be exploring the island for the rest of the day, hiking up to “Los Gemelos” (The Twins) – two enormous collapsed lava chambers -, discovering the island’s lava tunnels and biking downhill along a countryside road from el Chato Farm to Puerto Ayora. There, you will check in at Aventura Lodge and enjoy the rest of the evening at your leisure.

Day 2: Kayaking tour on Santa Cruz. Transfer to Floreana Island. Visit Black Beach.

After breakfast, we will go to Academy Bay on Santa Cruz Island for a 4-hour kayaking tour going through Franklin’s Bay and Punta Estrada. We will end in a place where you can snorkel and see white tip sharks, Galapagos sharks manta rays, and colorful tropical fish or just relax at the beach. After enjoying your lunch back at your hotel, we will sail to Floreana Island. Upon arrival, and before checking in, we will visit Black Beach, a black sand beach where you can swim, snorkel, or simply relax watching a beautiful sunset. With a short walk, we will read Floreana Lodge where you will be able to check in. Dinner will be served at a local family’s house.

Day 3: Visit Cerro Allieri. Swim and snorkel in La Loberia or explore Puerto Velasco Ibarra.

After enjoying your breakfast at a local family’s house, you will ride a traditional bus called “chiva” (a bus without windows and doors) to reach Cerro Allieri, one of the highest points in Floreana (340m) from you can enjoy an overwhelming view of different landscapes and the town of Puerto Velasco Ibarra. On our 2-hour hike you will also be able to observe Cerro Alieiri’s unique vegetation up close. Return to town and typical lunch with a local family before joining us on an exciting walk to La Loberia, where you can swim and snorkel, or just take some time to explore the little town of Puerto Velasco Ibarra. Dinner will be at local family’s house before returning to your lodge.

Picture by: Mr Thomson / Flickr

Picture by: Steven Bedard

Day 4: Visit Floreana Highlands. Transfer to Isabela Island. Boat tour to Las Tintoreras.

Today is an action-packed day! After enjoying your breakfast at a local family’s house, we will depart on a chiva for the highlands of Floreana where you will see some rare plant species and possibly spot some Galápagos tortoises. During the bus ride your Naturalist Guide will be pointing out the wildlife and filling you in on the colorful history of Floreana’s first inhabitants. In the late morning we will set sail for Isabela Island, where you will check into Red Mangrove Isabela Lodge. After enjoying your lunch here, we will take you on a smaller boat en route to Las Tintoreras. Along the way, expect plenty of wildlife encounters with blue-footed boobies and Galápagos penguins. Once on land, we will take a hike through a jagged lava field to spot marine iguanas and sea lions. Finish off the day on the bay by snorkeling with  ee white-tipped reef sharks, sea lions and sea turtles.

Day 5: Hike to Volcan Sierra Negra. Lunch and relax at Campo Duro.

This morning we will be taking you to Volcan Sierra Negra, the oldest volcano on Isabela. After a short hike, we will reach the rim of its crater from where the views are simply breathtaking! After taking in the views, we’ll set off on an easy 3-mile hike to relax and have a snack under a Jaboncillo tree.

For the real adventure seekers of the group, there is an option to continue on a more challenging one-hour walk to Volcan Chico, just northwest of the crater where fumarole activity is abundant, and again from here, the views are spectacular. This is not an easy hike, however, because it is mostly across sloping lava fields.

After returning from Sierra Negra, we will have lunch at Campo Duro, a relaxing organic farm. Take a walk among the fruit trails or nap in one of their many hammocks before heading on a downhill bike ride to your lodge, some 4 miles away.

Day 6: Snorkeling in Los Tuneles. Leisure afternoon in Puerto Villamil.

After breakfast at the Lodge, you will board a fast boat headed to Los Tuneles. On this trip, you will enjoy seeing the beautiful Galápagos wildlife such as giant mantas rays, sea turtles, sea lions, and more. At Los Tuneles, you will be snorkeling in great company with many species of fish, rays, sea turtles and perhaps even some Galápagos penguins around you. We will return to the lodge for a late lunch and you will have the afternoon to relax or discover the town of Puerto Villamil at your leisure.

Picture by: Thomas Bonnin

Picture by: Leo D’lion

Day 7: Humedales (Wetlands) Tour. Transfer to Santa Cruz Island. Guided tour of Charles Darwin Research Center.

This morning, you will be taken on the Humedales (Wetlands) Tour. We begin with a drive out of town along the beautiful white sand palm lined beach of Vilamill. This beach, straight from the cover of a travel magazine, stretches on for almost 2 miles before the National Park boundaries, where we will walk up the trail to the summit of Cerro Orchilla, for an astounding view from the top. We will then visit the “Muro de las Lagrimas” (Wall of Tears), a unique construction built by the backbreaking labor of prisoners of a penal colony centuries earlier. After lunch, you will be transferred to Santa Cruz and checked into Santa Cruz Aventura Lodge. There, enjoy a guided tour to the fascinating Charles Darwin Research Station where you can learn about one of the most successful reptile breeding programs in the world and perhaps, meet the most famous giant tortoise: Lonesome George, also known as the world’s rarest creature.

Day 8: Santa Cruz – Quito or Guayaquil.

After breakfast, you will depart for your transfer to Baltra airport, on time for your flight back to the mainland.

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