Description of our day tours

07h30: Departure to dive site (via: sea o land/sea)

Depending on the site we have the 2 following schedules:

09h15 / 10h15:   Arrival at dive site. Dive and weight check (15 minutes)

10h15 / 11h15:   First Dive (Depth 20-25mts / 65-85ft. Max time 1 hour)

11h15 / 12h15:   Surface Interval (1 hour); snack/ lunch

12h15 / 13h15:   Second Dive (depth 15-23mts / 50-75ft. Max Time 1 hour

13h15 / 14h15:   Snack /lunch, Return

15h30 / 17h30:   Arrival.

Prerequisites to participate

- It is mandatory to hold a diver’s certification (PADI, NAUI, CMAS, or other).

- Complete the application form 

- Medical Certificate if declaring any medical condition and/or people over 55 years old that have not been diving during the last 6 months.

- Be between 13 and 65 years of age.

- We accept certified beginner divers at all dive sites except Gordon Rocks for which we require a minimum of 30 logged dives or the previous dive evaluation of our dive guides, while diving at another site.

Detailed Itinerary:

1^st day: Quito / Guayaquil – flight – Galapagos: Baltra Island & Kayak in Divine Bay

Flight Quito – Galapagos. Departure at 07h50 AM. Arrive in Baltra at 09h50 AM. Upon disembarking from the airplane, you will go to the Galapagos immigration area.  (Here you will need to present your passport and pay your US$100.00  Galapagos National Park fee in cash which is a requirement for all visitors) Once the Park officials have completed the check-in, you exit the immigration area and you will be greeted by your guide and transferred to Puerto Ayora, to your hotel. Room assignment and Lunch.

After lunch, we slip into our kayak and paddle around Divine Bay and Punta Estrada, traveling through multiple lava channels of calm, turquoise waters. Within the channels, white tipped sharks and rays patrol beneath the waves, while colonies of blue footed-boobies, tropic birds, herons and marine iguanas perch along the jagged cliffs. In the evening, we are free to explore the nightlife in Puerto Ayora, the Galapagos' most populous town.

Meals: Lunch and diner.

2^nd day: Dive in Floreana Island

Departure: 07h15 AM

Location: South of Santa Cruz Island, 3 possible dive sites, 1 hour and a half away from our base.

Site Conditions: Normally this site does not present strong currents. This is a reef dive where corals and sponges can be found.

Activity: Cleaning station, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, barracudas, variety of invertebrates.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

3^rd day: Dive in Gordon Rocks

Departure: 07h15 AM

Location: North-east of Santa Cruz island, 2 dive sites located 30 minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz island).

Site Conditions: This rock formation is a world renowned site, for intermediate and advanced divers due to the strong currents and surge.

Activity: Hammerhead shark, Cleaning station, Galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, mobulas, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, Galapagos eel, barracudas, variety of invertebrates 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

4^th day: Dive  in Bartholome & Cousin

Departure: 07h15 AM

Bartholome

Location: Located east of Santiago Island, a small island with the famous Bartholomew pinnacle, 2 dive sites located at 1 hour and a half from Itabaca Channel (North side of                               Santa Cruz Island).

Site Conditions: Moderate currents. A platform is found at approximately 10 meters where a variety of reef fishes reside. On the edge of this platform there are underwater cliffs which start at about 15 meters deep with good probabilities to observe pelagic species.

Activity: White tip reef shark, reef fishes, barracudas, turtles, mobulas, sting rays, variety of invertebrates.

Cousins

Location: North-east of Santiago island near Bartholomew island, 1 islet, 2 dive sites located at 1 hour and a half from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz island).

Site Conditions: Normally there are no strong currents at this site; this is partly a reef dive, partly a wall dive where the endemic black coral is found.

Activity: Cleaning station, sea horses, barracudas, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, variety of invertebrates. At surface interval penguins can be observed.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

5^th day: Dive in Seymour

Departure: 07h15 AM

Location: North of Santa Cruz Island, 2 dive sites located 30 minutes from Itabaca Channel (North side of Santa Cruz Island).

Site Conditions: For all levels of divers, although sometimes there can be strong currents, platform reefs with a diversity of species

Activity: Cleaning station, sea lions, Galapagos sharks, white tip reef shark, hammerhead shark, mobulas, turtles, reef fishes, sting rays, eagle rays, Galapagos eel, barracudas, variety of invertebrates. 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

6^th day: Charles Darwin station – ferry Isablea Island: Flamingos lake

Departure: 08h30 AM

The Charles Darwin Research Station encompasses an information centre, a museum, a library and the tortoise breeding station as well. Here you will have an opportunity to visit some of the best scientists of the Galápagos. Park rangers and park managers among others, who make huge efforts to preserve this Unesco World Heritage Site, conduct the conservation of the islands. In the tortoise breeding and rearing centre you can encounter tortoises of different subspecies, which are prepared for reintroduction to their natural habitats. The most popular inhabitant of this island is probably Lonesome George. He is the only survivor of his specific turtle species. In the past all approaches to find a partner for him failed. But in July 2008 the scientists found a carved nest wit nine eggs from a female tortoise. Three of them could be saved and now accordingly to strict instructions they are incubated synthetically. After Lunch we will travel by speed boat for approximately three and half hours to Isabela Island. Accommodation in our hotel and a short rest.  Then we will then visit the Flamingo Lagoon, the largest coastal lagoon in Galapagos and a principal breeding ground for the Flamingos.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

7^th day: Dive in Isla Tortuga

Departure: 07h35 AM

Location: It is a 30 minute boat ride from Isabela. Tortuga is a volcanic crater which just pushed up above the water a couple of hundred feet

Site Conditions: For all levels of divers, although sometimes there can be strong currents, platform reefs with a diversity of species

Activity: A lots of fish, giant schools of barracuda, eels, many sea turtles, eagle rays, and the highlight: hammer-head sharks!

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and diner.

8^th day: Isabela Is. Transfer to Santa Cruz Is. – Baltra Is. Flight – Quito

Departure: 05h40 AM

Our guide will pick us up from our hotel at 05h40 and will take us to the pier of Isabela Island in order to take our  boat to Puerto Ayora. Once in Puerto Ayora we will be transferred to the pier of Baltra Island. Here we take a ferry to cross to Baltra Island and then a bus to the airport.  Our Aerogal flight departs at 10h45 and arrive in Quito at 15h00.

Meals: No meals.

(*) This itinerary can be modified according your request, A la Carte.

Prices:

Double accommodation

Solo traveller

(*) Single supplement: For those persons that belong to a group and prefer a single accommodation.

(*) Solo Traveler: This prices are for the persons that are traveling solo.

The price include:

- All transfers in Galapagos

- Accommodation in Puerto Ayora

- All Meals (Breakfast, lunch & dinner)

- Kayaking at Divine Bay

- Tour of Charles Darwin Station

- Two immersions per dive

- Transport to / from dive site

- Complete Dive Gear: 2 pieces 7mm wetsuit, Regulator, BCD, mask, fins, hood, gloves, weight belt and tanks (does not include dive computer)

- Bilingual guides (1 guide for every 4 or 5 divers)

- Snack y lunch

- Towel service

- Ferry Puerto Ayora (Sta. Cruz Island) – Puerto Villamil (Isabela Island)

- Accommodation in Isabela IslandAccommodation in Isabela Island

- Dive in Isla Tortuga at Isabela Island

The price does not included:

- Round trip airfare to Galapagos

- Galapagos National Park fee US $ 100.00 (To be paid in cash in Galapagos)  

- Ingala Immigration card of US $ 10.00 (To be paid in cash in the airport in Quito)

- Isabela Dock Tax of US $5.00

- Tips

- Alcoholic beverages

- Special service not described above

- International Airport departure of US $ 40.80  

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Low Season:  May 1 to Jun 14 & Sep 15 to Oct 31.

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