Evolution Yacht :Luxury cruise in Galapagos

Enjoy 8 day aboard the most beautiful yachts in the Galapagos the Evolution Yacht  the vacation packages Includes: Air tickets to and from Miami, pre cruise hotel and transfer, 7-night accommodation on the Evolution Yacht.  All meals, sightseeing, guides and lecture services included on cruise

Another perfect way to explore the Galapagos is on aboard the 32-guest M/V Evolution. She is the ideal ship for a cruise tour to the Galapagos Islands, with spacious cabins, terrific amenities and great food. escrorted by   highly qualified naturalist Galapagos tour guides.

Day by Day Itinerary  (Evolution Yacht package from Miami)

Day 1, Fri:  Miami to Quito
Depart Miami at in evening to Quito. Your flight includes meals, drinks, and in-flight entertainment for your journey
your flight to Lima Galapagos arrives late this evening  where you will be met by Guide and transferred your hotel
Hotel: Dann Carlton Hotel or Similar  (Continental Breakfast)

Day 2, Sat:  Quito
Quito Free day  morning at leisure for independent pursuits. Optional Quito Tour Available. Afternoon to relax and eat in one of the many restaurants where you can enjoy the local cuisine and hospitality of the local people.
Hotel: Dann Carlton Hotel or Similar  (Continental Breakfast)

Day 3, Sun: San Cristobal, Galapagos
The flight from Quito to the Galapagos..Guides will meet you, collect your luggage and escort you on the short bus ride to the harbor. Motorized rafts, called ‘Pangas’ will transport you to the M/V Evolution and our crew will welcome you onboard. After a briefing and a light lunch the first site is visit.
Sunday Afternoon: Head Isla Lobos means Sea-Lion Island, and the name is certainly appropriate because the frolic, leap and make a racket here. Isla Lobos is located North of San Cristóbal, 1 hour across a small channel. It is also a nesting place for blue-footed boobies and a good place for snorkeling; an early panga ride will be offered.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 4,  Mon:  Hood sland—Punta Suarez
One of the oldest of the islands, Hood is small and flat with no visible volcanic crater or vent. Punta Suarez is one of the most outstanding wildlife areas of the archipelago, with a long list of species found along its cliffs and sand or pebble beaches. In addition to five species of nesting seabirds there are the curious and bold Hood Island mockingbirds, Galapagos doves and Galapagos hawks. Several types of reptiles, including the brilliantly colored marine iguana and the oversized lava lizard, are unique to this island. When heavy swells are running, Punta Suarez is also the site of a spectacular blowhole, with thundering spray shooting 30 yards into the air.
Monday Afternoon head to Gardner Bay is on the eastern shore and has a magnificent beach. This beach is frequented by a transient colony of sea lions, and is a major nesting site for marine turtles. Around the small islets nearby, snorkelers will find lots of fish and sometimes turtles and sharks. On a trail leading to the western tip of the island you'll pass the only nesting sites in the Galapagos of the waved albatross, huge birds with a 6-foot wingspan. These huge birds nest here from April to December and represent the majority of the world’s population of this species.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 5, Tue: Santa Cruz Island—Puerto Ayora Town
Santa Cruz is the only inhabited island to be visited during this Galapagos cruise. Puerto Ayora, with a population of about 10,000 people is the location of the Charles Darwin Research Station, world famous for its tortoise breeding programs. After touring the Station, journey by bus into the highlands to Los Gemelos the two deep pit craters situated in the Scalesia forest with lots of interesting bird life. Go for a walk through the giant lava tubes, visit the Tortoise Reserve to search for giant tortoises in their natural surroundings. There will be some free time to explore the town of Puerto Ayora on your own.
Tuesday Afternoon head to The lush greenery of the Santa Cruz Highlands is a definite contrast with the arid scenery of the smaller, lower islands. A point of interest is the famed lava tunnels, a fun and geologically informative visit. The trip to the highlands ends with a visit to the Twin Craters.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 6, Wed: Tower (Genovesa) Island—Prince Philip’s Steps
A second trail called Prince Philip Steps, leads to an open area for masked boobies, frigates, and red-footed boobies. At the end of this trail are thousands of band-rumped storm petrels at the cliff's edge, where they nest in crevices. Short-eared owls can sometimes be seen here, hunting the storm petrels during daylight hours.
Wednesday Afternoon head to  Tower (Genovesa) Island—Darwin Bay Beach
Tower is a collapsed volcano and ships sail directly into its large breached caldera to anchor at the foot of the steep crater walls. Tower attracts vast numbers of pelagic seabirds that come here to nest and breed: great frigate birds, red-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and storm petrels. A trail leads from a coral beach past tidal lagoons where lava gulls and yellow-crowned night herons are seen, then along the low shrubs populated by frigates and boobies, and eventually to a cliff edge where seabirds soar.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 7,  Thu: Fernandina  Island—Punta Espinosa
Fernandina is the youngest and most active volcano in the Galapagos with eruptions taking place every few years. The flat lava of Punta Espinosa offers a stark and barren landscape, but here flightless cormorants build their nests on the point, sea lions sprawl on the beach or play in the tide pools and marine iguanas dot the sand."
Thursday Afternoon head to  Tagus Cove, A favorite site of the early pirates and whalers, Tagus Cove has a continuing historical tradition (now discouraged), evident as one reads the names of hundreds of ships which were first carved and now are painted on the high cliffs that enclose the protected cove. More important, however, is the inside trail around a salt crater lake, called Darwin Lake, the Dry Zone vegetation and the lave fields of Darwin Volcano. A dinghy ride (tour) along the cliffs will five the visitor a good chance to see brown pelicans, marine iguanas and to see Galapagos Penguins, flightless cormorants, migratory birds, and quite a few marine invertebrates in the intertidal zone.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 8,  Fri: SantiagoIsland—Puerto Egas- to Bartolome Island.
This island has several sites to visit at the western end of James Bay. Puerto Egas with its black sand beaches was the site of small salt mining industry in the 1960s and a hike inland to the salt crater is an excellent opportunity to sight land birds such as finches, doves, and hawks. A walk down the rugged shoreline, especially at low tide, will turn up many marine species as iguanas basking on the rocks and sea lions lazing in the tide pools. At the end of the trail there is a series of grottoes or sea caves where fur seals and night herons are found resting on shady ledges. Just north of James Bay is Buccaneer Cove, a particularly scenic area of steep cliffs and dark beaches.
Friday Afternoon head to Bartolome Island. Bartolome is a small island that has beautiful white sand beaches, luxuriant green mangroves and a colony of penguins. Activities will include swimming and snorkeling and a climb to the summit of the island for one of the most breathtaking views in all the Galapagos. From the summit you will have the best view of the often-photographed Pinnacle Rock.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 9, Sat: North Seymour  Island back to Santa Cruz
North Seymour is an uplifted (as opposed to volcanic) island and so is generally flat and strewn with boulders. There are good nesting sites here for a large population of magnificent frigate birds. Blue-footed boobies perform their courtship dance in the more open areas and swallow-tailed gulls perch on the cliff edges. Despite the tremendous surf that can pound the outer shore, sea lions haul out onto the beach and can be found together with marine iguanas.
Saturday Afternoon head to Santa Cruz  Island. The panga will take you into a tidal lagoon to see three kinds of mangrove plants, red, white and black. White-tipped sharks, spotted rays, mustard rays and Pacific marine turtles frequent the waters here.
Evolution Yacht (Full Board- all meals included)

Day 10, Sun: San Cristobal Islan to Kicker Rock - Departure back to Quito
Kicker Rock is a magnificent rock in the middle of the sea. Rising 500 feet strait from the ocean, this giant uplifted rock has the shape of a sleeping lion. It has a split with towering vertical walls on either side, forming a narrow channel through which small vessels can navigate.
Fly back to Quito for flight back home. Add 1 night at Dann Carlton Hotel if evening flight not available

Day 11, Mon; Home
Flight home if morning, Arrive home today