Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year as a private journey.
Price:
Per person sharing cabin from $5,450
Fuel surcharge per person $210
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.
What Makes This Journey Best?
- Visit the equator.
- Seven nights on the finest ships that sails the archipelago.
- Complimentary use of snorkeling gear on board.
- Glass-bottom boats available throughout the cruise for underwater viewing.
- Visit the Tortoise Reserve and Charles Darwin Research Station.
- Easy-to-add option to continue on to Machu Picchu, Peru, with R. Crusoe & Son.
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 Isabela II.
Jet down to Quito, Ecuador’s colonial capital city, for a look around. Then fly to Baltra Island and come aboard a small luxury cruise ship that reminds us of a comfortable floating hotel: the 40-passenger Isabela II. Adventure around the islands, making our landings by sturdy pangas (rubber boats). Seasoned crews take care of our every desire on board the ships, 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 Island, head for North Seymour, Hood, Floreana, Santa Cruz, Tower, Isabela, Fernandina, James, and Bartolomé islands. 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 an 11-day guided tour aboard the 48-passenger La Pinta, and two slightly different 11-day journeys aboard the Santa Cruz, a comfortable 90-passenger ship. If you are pressed for time, we also offer an eight-day and a seven-day Galápagos journey aboard all three ships. For more details, go to:
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