Isabela full-day from Santa Cruz with Tintoreras & Flamingos
Description
Explore Isabela island on a thrilling day tour and discover its diverse natural wonders. Discover the Tintorera Islet, home to various marine life, including marine iguanas, sea turtles, sharks, and penguins. You’ll also visit the island’s wetlands, a habitat for flamingos, and the Giant Tortoise Breeding Centre Arnaldo Tupiza.
Tour Options
Itinerary
In the morning, you will take a ferry from Santa Cruz to Isabela Island. The ferry ride takes about 2 hours. Once you arrive on Isabela Island, you will meet your guide and start the tour. The first stop on the tour is Tintoreras Islet. You will take a short boat ride to the islet, where you will have the opportunity to see marine iguanas, sharks, penguins, and other marine life. After Tintoreras Islet, you will visit the wetlands and flamingos lagoon. You will hike through the wetlands, where you can see a variety of birds, including flamingos. After the wetlands, and Arnaldo Tupiza breeding Center visit, you will have lunch at a local restaurant. At 15:00, you will take the ferry back to Santa Cruz Island.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Pick up from the hotel lobby. Please send the hotel name once you make the tour reservation.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(3)
The visit to the flamingo lagoon was an incredible experience for us; it is one of the most iconic places in the Galápagos to observe the elegant flamingos in their natural habitat. This lagoon with calm waters is home to one of the most important populations of flamingos in the archipelago, which stand out for their intense pink color and their delicate behavior. Surrounded by a unique volcanic landscape, the lagoon offers an environment of great beauty and biodiversity, ideal for bird watching and nature photography. Visiting this site allows you to appreciate the natural wealth of the Galápagos and understand the importance of conserving one of the most extraordinary ecosystems on the planet.
It is a unique experience, although you have to be lucky with the weather and the number of flamingos that can be observed. Always remember that we must stay away from animals so as not to affect them. This tour is recommended to use binoculars for better observation.
The experience lived during the tour where we saw pink flamingos was very interesting because they tell us the evolution of these when adapting to a different ecosystem and being housed in saline lagoons and how is their mating mode and also what would be their food that is something very valued and especially to take care of since these animals are not usually raised regularly and above all are difficult to be monitoring
