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Galapagos Fitness & Health
Category: First Class
Duration: 10day/9nights
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The Health and Fitness Adventure tour is a unique tour that combines health and fitness, as well as, lets its participants see the Galapagos Islands. With its white sand beaches, crystal clear waters, and rich flora and fauna, what better place in there than the Galapagos Islands to work on fitness and health. This tour offers Yoga sessions every morning, hiking, diving, walks, and biking, so guests can get plenty of exercise and witness the beauty of the Galapagos. It includes visits to San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Isabela, and Floreana Islands.
Participants will visit Junco Lake, La Lobería, Charles Darwin Station, Cuevas de Sucre, Sierra Negra Volcano and much more, as well as experience all the flora and fauna of the Galapagos Islands.
Itinerary 10 days / 9 nights*
DAY 1: GUAYAQUIL - QUITO
Transfer in Airport - Hotel
DAY 2: GUAYAQUIL - QUITO / GALAPAGOS
- Tranfer in Baltra Airport
- Visit: Tortoise Quest or Mountain Tour
This tour begins with a trip to "Los Gemelos" (The Twins) - two enormous collapsed lava chambers, an awe-inspiring visual reminder of the power of nature. The short, easy hike to each of the twins is teeming with endemic plants and animals including the remaining Scalesia Forest draped in Liverwort, large and small tree finches, the adorable Vermillion flycatcher and more. Afterwards, we will visit a 600 acre private reserve where the giant Galapagos tortoises freely roam, graze, and sleep. After visiting the tortoises, we'll take a 5 minute ride to the entrance of a 450 meter (1350 feet) illuminated lava tunnel. Stalagmites, stalactites, sulfur, and mineral colored walls and the rippled form of a floor of lava can all be experienced in this uniquely Galapagos stroll.
- 2:00 Lunch at Chato Farm
- 3:00 Bike Ride Chato / Biking Way / Bella Vista / Lodge This ride will be approx. 20 kilometers downhill.
- Check in: Aventura Lodge 6:30 Dinner
- 7:30 After dinner walk to the pear.
- 8:30 Briefing and an evening activity
DAY 3: AVENTURA / FLOREANA
- 6:00 -7:00 Sunrise Yoga Session at Estacion Beach
- 7:30 Breakfast
- 8:30 Academy Bay Tour
Snorkel with Sea Lions, Sting Rays and Baby Reef Sharks in the shallow, emerald waters of Tortuga Bay, then witness the nesting site of the famous Marine Iguanas.
- 12:30 Lunch at Aventura Lodge
- 2:30 Navigation To Florena
Sailing time is 1.5 - 2 hours. First, we will visit a cove called "Luz del Dia" (Light of Day) where you will see an abundance of penguins and sea lions on the steep, rocky, shore and rays and tropical fish beneath the clear waters.
- 4:30 Floreana Lodge
- 4:30 - 5:30 Strength & Core training at Playa Negra
- 7:00 Dinner
- 8:00 Walk back to the Lodge
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity
DAY 4: FLOREANA / ISABELA
- 5:30-6:30: Sunrise Yoga session at Playa Negra
- 7:00: Breakfast
- 8:00: Hike to Floreana Highlands
Learn about the first settlement in the Galapagos and the "Floreana Mystery," which entailed the mysterious deaths of early inhabitants, as you hike up to see the Asilo de la Paz (Peace Asylum) where a spring is located that attracted pirates. Afterward, visit the Cerro Pajas (Bird Hill), which truly lives up to its name with a multitude of Floreana Finches.
- 11:00 Navigation to Isabela Island / Sailing time is 1.5 - 2 hours.
- 1:00 Check in Isabela Lodge
- 3:00 Bike Ride Lodge / Muro Lagrimas / Cerro Orchilla / Humedales./ Lodge This ride will be approx. 8 kilometers flat landscape.
- 5:30 - 6:30 Strength & Core training at the Lodge
- 7:00 Dinner At Isabela Lodge
- 8:00 Walk along the beach
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity.
DAY 5: ISABELA
- 5:30 - 6:30: Sunrise Yoga session in the Terrace of the Lodge
- 7:00: Breakfast
- 8:00: Hike to Volcan Sierra Negra
Depart for Sierra Negra at 8:00 AM in 4x4 vehicles into the humid highlands of the Volcan Sierra Negra to the point where vehicles can go no further. Here, we will start a hike to the caldera of Sierra Negra, the second largest in the world at 4 miles wide
- 2:00 Lunch at Campo Duro
Campo Duro offers a 'tortoise patronage' program that doesn't involve an exchange of money between Campo Duro and visitors. Guests have the opportunity to become a patron to their chosen tortoise at the reserve. Guests merely choose a tortoise (they're all numbered), name their tortoise and then enter a story in the Patron's book. Then, the Patron invites any and all of their friends to go visit their tortoise and provide updates.
- 3:00 Visit to Cuevas de Sucre / Mirador el Mang
Las Cuevas de Sucre is a fascinating, must see lava tube. Afterward, you will be taken to a look out point where you can see the entire southern part of Isabela Island, its nearby islands, and even other islands such as, Floreana and Santa Cruz.
- 5:30 - 6:30 Strength & Core training at the lodge
- 7:00 Dinner At Isabela Lodge
- 8:00 Walk along the beach
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity.
DAY 6: ISABELA / SANTA CRUZ
- 6:30-7:30: Sunrise Yoga session at the terrace of the Lodge
- 8:00: Breakfast
- 8:30: Las Tintoreras Las Tintoreras and Bay Tour.
After lunch, we will board a small craft to head out across the port, slowing down to view blue footed boobies and Galapagos penguins sharing the same rocky, sunning space, before turning a bend and docking. From there, we take an intriguing walk through a jagged 'AA' lava field, passing abundant colonies of marine iguanas, in order to see a small canal full of resting white-tipped reef sharks.
- 11:00 Departure to Santa Cruz (Sailing time is 1.5 - 2 hours).
- 1:00 Lunch at Aventura Lodge
- 2:30 Visit to the Charles Darwin Station
We depart for a guided tour of the fascinating Charles Darwin Research Station. After the Darwin Station, there will be some free time to shop for souvenirs or browse the shops along Charles Darwin Avenue.
- 4:30 Free time to enjoy a bike ride, relax at the confort of the Lodge, go shooping, etc.
- 7:00 Dinner at Aventura Lodge
- 8:00 Walk to the pear
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity
DAY 7: SANTA CRUZ / SAN CRISTOBAL
- 6:00 -7:00 Sunrise Yoga session at Esation Beach
- 7:30 Breakfast
- 8:30 Navigation to San Cristobal
- 10:30 Check in at the Lodge
- 11:00 Visit to La Loberia
Here you'll enjoy the sea lions, marine iguanas, bird watching, and even giant Galapagos tortoises.
- 12:00 Visit to el Junco Lake
A short hike will take us to El Junco Lake, the lake itself is the caldera (collapsed cone) of an extinct volcano which is about 300 meters wide. This sweet water lagoon is surrounded by fern and sedges, as well as many flowering plants. Arriving on top of the lake, the view for the Pacific Ocean will truly take your breath away.
- 1:00 Box Lunch at the Junco Lake
- 2:00 Visit to La Galapaguera
Our tour continues to La Galapaguera. You can see the giant tortoises in their natural habitat and learn more about their origin and evolution.
- 4:30 - 5:30 Strength & Core training at the Lodge
- 6:30 Walk to the port and enjoy dinner at a local restaurant with Ecuadorian cousin.
- 7:30 Walk to the pear
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity.
DAY 8: SAN CRISTOBAL
- 600-7:00 Sunrise Yoga session at Cerro Tijeretas
- 7:30: Breakfast
- 8:00: Visit to Kicker Rock or Sleeping Lion.
Sailing time is 2 hours. A Galapagos mainstay, no trip to Galapagos is complete without a trip to the 500 foot jagged rock jetting out of the ocean called Kicker Rock. Diving here you can enjoy the crystal waters full of colorful tropical fish and invertebrates. * 1:00 Lunch at Puerto Grande. With its turquoise waters and snow-white sand beach, don't miss the photo opp. here.
- 2:30 Depart to Lobos Island.
A seasonal nesting location for the blue footed boobie, considered by many to be one of best places in the Galapagos for snorkeling and the chance to swim with sea lions.
- 4:00 pm Return to San Cristobal. Arrive to the hotel around 6:00 pm.
- 6:00 - 700: Strength & Core training at the Lodge
- 7:30 Walk to the town for a Farewell Galápagos Dinner.
- 8:30 Briefing and Evening Activity
DAY 9: SAN CRISTOBAL / GUAYAQUIL - QUITO
- 6:00-7:00: Sunrise Yoga session at Cerro Tijeretas.
- 7:30: Breakfast
- 8:30: Visit to the town and spare time there
- 10:00 Transfer to the Aiport.
DAY 10: GUAYAQUIL - QUITO
Transfer out Hotel - Airport
*Itinerary subject to change |
