9-Day Santa Cruz Cruise II & Quito

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After breakfast, your local guide will pick you up from your hotel and take you to visit the Middle of the World Monument, situated at 0o0’0” latitude. Take a picture with your feet on both hemispheres! Continue the tour to the Intiñan Museum where you can see various demonstrations of natural phenomena, gravity and balance manifested in the equatorial zone. This is a really fun and interactive museum. The afternoon is at leisure.

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After breakfast, discover Quito’s beautiful Historic Centre, named World Heritage Site by the UNESCO. Quito is a city with a rich history, hiding the most fascinating legends, forbidden love stories, political insurrection plans, and more. Take a visit to La Compañia, San Francisco and Basilica churches and experience an exclusive tasting of the best chocolate in the world!

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You will land on Baltra Island by plane in the morning and then transfer to the port to board the Santa Cruz II cruise. We will stop to visit the Las Bachas on Santa Cruz Island. This beautiful site is located on the northern shore of Santa Cruz Island, where a glorious white beach awaits you along with a couple of brackish lagoons that are just a few steps away from the sea. These lagoons actually serve as the feeding grounds of various wading birds, from stilts to flamingos.

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After breakfast, you will get to explore the coastline along the impressive cliffs of Buccaneer Cove, all while learning about the area’s history. This cove is home to a large number of marine birds, sea lions, and inter-tidal organisms. Then we will sail to Puerto Egas. After disembarking at the beach here, guests will get to enjoy swimming or snorkelling along the rocky shorelines, usually in the company of marine turtles.

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During our stop at Rabida Island on Jervis Island, some groups can go for a fascinating dinghy ride along the shores while others may choose to disembark on Rabida Island’s mesmerising, red-coloured beach. In the afternoon, activities begin with a wet landing on the golden beach of Bartolome Island, a famous island dominated by the imposing Pinnacle Rock. This is another great place for you to go for a swim and snorkel from the beach. A chance to ride the glass-bottom boat is also offered.

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The morning starts with a steep climb (only 90 feet/28 metres) up a flight of stairs to reach a flat and rocky plateau of Prince Philip Steps. Once there, you can walk along comfortably and check out large colonies of Nazca boobies, red-footed boobies, great frigatebirds and storm petrels. In the afternoon, you will land at the beautiful beach in Darwin Bay to enjoy some swimming or snorkelling.

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Spend time at the Giant Tortoise Reserve to observe the amazing highlight of giant tortoises roaming around in their natural environment. These lush highlands include dense forests consisting of Galapagos daisies, orchids and bromeliads as well as several endemic land birds. It is truly an honour to be in the presence of these magnificent animals in such a beautiful place. In the afternoon, we will say goodbye to the Galapagos and get a transfer back to the Baltra Airport to fly back to Quito.