GALAPAGOS ODYSSEY

4 DAY GALAPAGOS CRUISE

*Please note the itinerary may vary due to changes in air schedules, weather, national park regulations, local conditions, safety or unforeseen emergencies.

DAY 1 - Thursday / Galapagos Arrival and La Loberia, San Cristobal

We begin our morning with a flight to the Galapagos Islands. Our crew meets us at the airport and assists us with our luggage and transfers with us to the Galapagos Odyssey. Once on board we have lunch in the afternoon we set off for La Loberia.

This afternoon we take a 10-minute bus ride outside of town to La Loberia. Named for the many sea lions that frequent the beach, low tide is the best time to visit as the many playful pups can be found swimming in the tide pools surrounding the beach.

DAY 2 - Friday / Punta Suarez and Gardner Bay, Española

Española's two visitor sites offer an exceptional island visit. Gardner Bay is a favorite destination for swimming and snorkeling as well as offering a great beach. Punta Suarez is one of the highlights of the Galapagos Islands. The variety and quantity of wildlife assures a memorable visit. Visitors find migrant, resident, and endemic wildlife including brightly colored marine iguanas, Española lava lizards, Hood mockingbirds, swallow tailed gulls, blue-footed boobies, masked boobies, Galapagos hawks, a selection of finch, and the waved albatross.

DAY 3 - Saturday / Punta Cormorant, Devil's Crown and Post Office Bay, Floreana

Floreana is best known for its colorful history of buccaneers, whalers, convicts, and colonists. In 1793 British whalers established the Post Office Barrel to send letters to and from England. This tradition has continued over the years, and even today visitors may drop off and pick up letters, without stamps, to be carried to far destinations. Punta Cormorant offers two highly contrasting beaches. The landing beach is of volcanic origin and is composed of olivine crystals, giving it a greenish tinge. At the end of the short trail is a carbonate beach of extremely fine white sand. Formed by the erosion of coral skeletons, it is a nesting site for green sea turtles.

DAY 4 - Sunday Morning / North Seymour and Galapagos Departure

The small flat island of North Seymour is home to colonies of colonies of blue-footed boobies and magnificent frigatebirds. Sharing the same nesting area on North Seymour blue-footed boobies nest on the ground making their nests from the twigs of the palo santos trees, while the magnificent frigatebird nests just above them in the saltbushes. North Seymour is an excellent site to view the endemic Galapagos land iguana. We then return to the airport for our flight back to the Ecuadorian mainland.

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