4-Day Luxury Galápagos Cruise: Southeastern Route aboard an Elite Catamaran - Galapagos

Arrive at San Cristóbal Airport, where you’ll be transferred to the vessel.

David Rodríguez Breeding Center

At the David Rodríguez Breeding Center, you’ll learn about the origin and evolution of giant tortoises and the center’s role in protecting their future.

Walk through the reserve trails to see young tortoises being raised in semi-natural conditions. It’s a close look at the work being done locally to protect one of the Galápagos’ most iconic animals.

Meals included: Lunch / Dinner

Suárez Point

Punta Suárez is packed with wildlife and is best explored along its circular walking trail. The trail passes nesting sites for large colonies of Nazca and blue-footed boobies, as well as mockingbirds.

Española is also home to the beautiful waved albatross, which you may see launching from the cliffs and gliding out over the ocean. Look out for the island’s distinctive red and green marine iguanas too!

Several blowholes along the trail can shoot seawater up to 25 meters into the air, making for some impressive views and photos.

Gardner Bay, Gardner & Osborn Islets

Gardner Bay is a long stretch of white sand where sea lions often gather along the beach. You can just slow down here. Take a kayak or paddleboard out on the water and look for waved albatrosses flying overhead. These birds use this beach as a nesting site. 

A short panga ride takes you to Gardner and Osborn Islets, where you can snorkel with young sea lions and see colorful tropical fish and corals.

Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner

Cormorant Point & Devil’s Crown

Cormorant Point has two very different beaches. One has olive-green sand colored by olivine crystals, while the other, known as Flour Beach, has bright white sand made from crushed coral.

A saltwater lagoon nearby is home to one of the largest Galápagos flamingo populations. You may also see stilts, white-cheeked pintails, and large-billed flycatchers.

From there, you’ll take a Zodiac to Devil’s Crown. This partly submerged volcanic crater leaves only a thin ring of rock above the water, giving it the shape of a crown when viewed from above. The area is one of the best snorkeling spots on this route, with coral and a wide variety of marine life. Its location in open water also makes it a good place for birdwatching.

Post Office Bay

Floreana’s Post Office Bay has a tradition that dates back to the days when whaling and sailing ships anchored at the Galápagos. Sailors left a barrel here to send and receive letters from home.

The tradition continues today. Visitors can drop off a letter or postcard in the barrel for another traveler to deliver by hand. You can also look through the mail for one addressed near your home. Afterward, relax on the small beach where passengers board and leave the landing craft.

Baroness Lookout

In the 1930s, Floreana was home to Eloise Wehrborn de Wagner-Bosquet, an Austrian woman with two lovers, who called herself the “Baroness of Galápagos.” Her disappearance in 1934 remains one of the island’s enduring mysteries.

The visit begins with a short panga ride, where you may see rays and turtles. After landing near the red mangroves, a dusty trail leads uphill to the lookout, with wide views of the surrounding landscape. Nearby are the remains of a biological station used in 1934 when filmmakers came to Floreana to make a short film about the Baroness.

Meals included: Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner