Galapagos

A small hostal close the the fish market street where you can enjoy simple but very delicious seafood dinner. Right at the main street of Santa Cruz and next to a lot of tour operators and 5min from the Harbor.


$45 per night

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Direct at the beach road and close to the small restaurants, this little bungalows are very good located! A comfortable bed and a nice breakfast is included!


$73 per night


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Small and cozy, this hostel is a located on the hill but good reachable by foot! The small garden and the commune kitchen is definitely a plus as the restaurants on San Cristobal are more expensive.


$40 per night


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Direct Flight
2h 15min
10.40 – 11.55 Quito – Santa Cruz
$ 815 (roundtrip)
$ 40 (Tourist Control at the airport)
$ 200 (Entrance to the islands)


Important: You have to be early at the aiport as you need to get through a luggage check before you even go to the Check-in, otherwise you stand in line twice!

5min Bus
5min Ferry
45min Bus to Puerto Ayora
$22

Small Boats to get to the Boats
$10

Boat
2h
$ 120 (roundtrip)

Boat
2h
$ 120 (roundtrip)

45min Bus to Puerto Ayora
5min Ferry
5min Bus
$22

First stop: we wanted to learn more about the Galapagos, their wildlife and especially the giant tortoises! The Darwin Research Center is a perfect starting point to enhance your knowledge before you start the adventures!
$0 (free)

A well built path leads you to the most beautiful beach we’ve ever seen – Tortuga Bay. And not only the beach is wonderful but as soon as you arrive you meet Marine Iguanas and Sally Lightfoot Crabs on the rocks! It’s amazing! Go a little further around the corner and find an even more stunning beach. We just sit there and watched the waves and the wildlife. But you can also rent paddle boards and look for the sea turtles!
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Already on the way we met one of this gigantic turtles on the street. In the El Chato Ranch they leaf in freedom with a lot of space and get looked after as well! On the same ground you also walk through the lava tunnels which got formed when the outer lava cooled down and the center still floated through.
$40 for a taxi roundtrip
$5 for the Entrance

A day trip we’ll never forget! What a perfect day snorkeling with seals, observing the birds on Daphne Mayor and having the best fresh sushi ever!
$240 for the daytrip

On this beach its said that you find shells with heart forms! We didn’t identify the form but met a lot of Marine Iguanas sunning on the rocks and on the way back Flamingos and a lot of surfers! Did you know that the Galapagos are also a Surfers Paradise?
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A pear full of seals and they just don’t care that you want to have a sunbath as well ;) It’s amazing how trusting the animals are on these islands. In this small lagoon we snorkeled with Marine Iguanas, Seals and Seaturtles!
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Our first close encounter with blue-footed boobies was on these volcanic landscape! Stunning to see how lava formed these tunnels and built a paradise for aquatic animals – due to the shallow pools they are secured from big hunters like sharks!
$260 for the daytrip

Unfortunately we couldn’t dive this islands due to the weather conditions but we heard from other divers, that they saw Manta Rays and colorful fishes – so when we return, we definitely try it again! Talkin about returning we def do that in Jan – March, as the visibility must be so much better!
$380 for 2-tank-dives

A half-day hike to this active volcano was so worth is! In the morning it was cloudy and we almost missed the view over this massive crater – actually the second largest in the world. The most recent eruption was in summer 2018 and a bigger one in 2005. You feel like walking on the moon!
$100 for a guided hike

Wow! These two dives were just overwhelming! And we didn’t even had a good visibility, so imagine a dive here when the visibility is about 30 to 40 meters from Jan to March?! We met the hammerhead sharks we so wished for and we even had the encounter we never expected to really have one day – we saw a Mola Mola!
$340 for 2-tank-dives

San Cristobal is the island of the seals! They are just everywhere – on the benches, streets and beaches! We hiked by ourself to the Playa Punta Carola, the Mirador and further to Playa Baquetizo. It’s a wonderful hike over lava stones and rocks with views over the island and their lagoons! You need good walking shoes!
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Our daytrip around San Cristobal island led us to a pink beach with more blue-footed boobies, the Punta Pitt with hunting red-footed boobies and finally to snorkel at the famous Leon Dormido or Kicker Rock! We didn’t met hammerheads there but we heard normally there must be and our guide was looking for them hardly ;)
$300 for the daytrip