Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year as a private journey.
Price:
Per person sharing cabin from $4,990
Fuel surcharge per person $175
Internal air per person (estimate) $520
2010 SPECIAL PRICING: See our day-by-day Galápagos itineraries for a variety of irresistible savings.
For more information, to book, or to speak to an R. Crusoe & Son tour specialist, please call us at 800-585-8555.
Local Flavor
How do you approach a 500-pound, 200-year-old Galápagos tortoise?
With humility and deference. The noontide iguanas, blue-footed boobies, and waved albatross, however, don't stand on formality (they’ve seen our kind before). As for the seals, they’re positively delighted at the sight of you. This is, after all, their playground.
Welcome to the planet’s greatest living laboratory. Dozens of species of fish, reptiles, and plants that in all the world can only be found here on these 19 islands and 42 islets. Time to witness Darwin’s theory firsthand (outside the boardroom) 160-odd years after he first laid eyes on those fateful finches.
Galápagos. 11 Days of Tropical Phenomena Aboard the Santa Cruz. Baltra to Baltra.
Jet down to Quito, Ecuador’s colonial capital city, for a look around. Then fly to Baltra Island and come aboard the Santa Cruz, a luxury 90-passenger cruise ship that reminds us of comfortable floating hotel. Adventure around the islands, making our landings by sturdy pangas (rubber boats). A seasoned crew takes care of our every desire on board the ship, and naturalist guides see to our enlightenment and education as we experience the islands and the waters of the archipelago.
Time to meander. From Baltra, head for Santa Cruz, Bartolomé, James, Rabida, North Seymour, San Cristóbal, Española, Floreana, Fernandina, and Isabela islands. Then disembark back on Baltra. Along the way, there are wild animals to meet, birds to watch, otherworldly terrain to traverse. Snorkel your way around the ocean, or explore like a wannabee Jacques Cousteau—aboard a glass-bottom boat that accompanies our ship. Pack your water shoes; we make plenty of wet landings along our route. (You didn’t think there were docks everywhere, did you?)
R. Crusoe also offers another, slightly different, 11-day guided tour aboard the Santa Cruz, as well as an 11-day tour aboard the smaller Isabela II or La Pinta. If you are pressed for time, we also offer an eight-day a seven-day Galápagos journey aboard all three ships. For more details, go to:
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