CORAL II YACHT - SUPERIOR CATEGORY - 5 DAY TOUR   

Made in Holland and fully refurbished in 2019, with 4 decks, 12 knots speed and a capacity of 20 passengers, 9 crew members and 2 naturalist multilingual guides, the Coral II Yacht offers a cozy cruising experience and an excellent onboard service. With only 20 guest, the trip ambiance is of a private yacht style. Coral II has marvelous social areas such as their sun and shadow terrace, dolphin observation deck, jacuzzi, restaurant with mouthwatering culinary delights and lounge bar. 

Among the activities that you will be doing are snorkeling, dinghy rides, kayaking and beautiful hikes on twice-daily excursions ashore to the best visitor sites permitted by the national park. You will always be in the company of an expert naturalist guide. Walks will concentrate on spending quality time learning about the native fauna and flora. We will have enough time to observe, absorb and photograph. 

 Be prepared to be surrounded by unique sceneries and wildlife onboard the Coral II Yacht!

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*Diving activities are also available upon request!

Highlands Tortoise Reserve (Santa Cruz Island)

Punta Vicente Roca (Isabela Island)

Punta Espinosa (Fernandina Island)

Urbina Bay (Isabela Island)

Tagus Cove (Isabela Island)

Egas Port (Santiago Island)

Sullivan Bay (Santiago Island)

Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz Island) 

AM–Baltra Airport: Arriving in the Galapagos, passengers are picked up at the airport by our naturalist guides for a 10 minute bus drive to the pier to board the Coral I.

PM- Highlands Tortoise Reserve: We will dry land at Santa Cruz Island for a visit to the Highlands Tortoise Reserve. In the Galapagos mountains it is possible to admire different kinds of birds, such as tree and ground finches, vermillion flycatchers, paint-billed crakes, yellow warblers, and cattle egrets. The road goes from the coast through the agricultural zone and straight up to the dense humid forests.

(-/L/D)

AM-Punta Vicente Roca (Isabela): Great deep-water snorkeling at one of the richest marine havens on Earth, the Bolivar Channel. Accessible by water, we take a dinghy ride along the coast to observe a great diversity of sea and coastal birds; Nazca and blue-footed boobies, noddies, brown pelicans, penguins, flightless cormorants. The upwelling of cold water currents in this part of the Galapagos gives rise to an abundance of marine life, a perfect place for deep snorkeling.

PM-Punta Espinosa (Fernandina):  We will dry land at Fernandina. From Espinosa Point, it's possible to admire a wide view of Isabela Island across the Bolivar Channel, an area that boasts some of the highest diversity of endemic sea fauna in the Galapagos. Here the largest, most primitive-looking marine iguanas are found mingling with sea lions and Sally Lightfoot crabs. Fernandina displays a wonderful opportunity to encounter flightless cormorants at their nesting sites. Galapagos penguins and the "King" of predators on the islands, the Galapagos hawk Pa-hoe-hoe and AA lava formations cover the majority of Fernandina terrain. Vegetation is scarce inland, with few brachycereus cacti. In the shore mangrove can be found. 

(B/L/D)

AM-Urbina Bay (Isabela): Wet landing on Urbina Bay. Volcanic black beach, depending on

the season, it is possible to find giant tortoises, land iguanas, and the unusual flightless cormorant. After a short walk inland it's snorkeling time for a chance to swim with sea turtles sea lions, and countless tropical fish. Urbina Bay features a wide variety of plants with the different range of colors in flowers, attracting different insects, birds, and reptiles. One of this island's highlight is the uplifted coral reef that resulted from the 1954 seismic activity. The views of Alcedo Volcano are remarkable. 

When navigating from Urbina to Tagus Cove, whale watching is usual from May to December.

PM-Tagus Cove (Isabela): Dry landing on the Galapagos largest island where we will learn about the eruption of the five volcanoes that form it. The trail leads to Darwin's salt-water crater lake and excellent views of lava fields and volcanic formations. We will return by the same path for a dinghy ride along a shoreline full of marine wildlife, where we will admire a variety of seabirds, such as Blue footed Booby, Brown Noddy, terns, Flightless Cormorant and depending on the season a large number of Galapagos Penguins which are only 35 cm tall; the only penguin species in the world to live in the tropics. The population of penquins on the islands is about 2,000 individuals, most of which live on this western portion of Isabela. We will have an opportunity to snorkel in deep water. 

(B/L/D)

AM-Egas Port (Santiago Island): Wet landing on Egas Port, a black volcanic sand beach, visited by Darwin in 1835. The first section of the trail is formed of volcanic ash (eroded tuff) and the other half is an uneven terrain of volcanic basaltic rock. The unique, truly striking layered terrain of Santiago shore is home to a variety of animals including the bizarre yellow-crowned night heron and marine wildlife including lobster, starfish and marine iguanas grazing on algae beds alongside Sally light-foot crabs. It is easy to see colonies of endemic fur seals swimming in cool water volcanic rock pools.

PM-Sullivan Bay (Santiago Island): Wet landing on Sullivan Bay, located at the southeastern portion of Santiago Island. It features extensive relative young pa-hoe-hoe lava flows formed during the last quarter of the 19th century. In the middle of the lava flow, older reddish-yellow-colored tuff cones appear. Mollugo plants with their yellow-to-orange whorled leaves usually grow out of the fissures. Walking on the solidified lava gives the impression of being in another planet. Tree molds are found, indicating that in that position large size plants grew in small crevices, until the lava flow of past eruptions burned down the flora of the island.

(B/L/D)

AM-Bachas Beach (Santa Cruz Island):  Wet landing on the north side of Santa Cruz; behind the beach lies two small flamingo ponds were we can see iguanas sunbathe, see coastal birds, Darwin finches, mockingbirds, and gulls, as well as interesting native vegetation like red and black mangrove, salt bushes. This beach is one of the main sea turtles nesting sites in the Galapagos. A turtle can lay eggs 3 or 4 times per season with an average of 70 eggs each time. At this paradisiacal site, we will also find the remains of barges that sank a long time ago, when the United States Navy operated a base during World War Il on Baltra Island. Local people modified the word barges to "Bachas".

PM-Baltra Aiport: After the visit to Bachas Beach, passengers will be transferred to the airport for their return flight to Guayaquil or Quito.

(B/-/-)