6 days · 5 nights
Tortoises in the highlands, penguins on the lava and a volcano crater, with a free day between.
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Ask about datesLand on Baltra and spend your first night on Santa Cruz after meeting giant tortoises in the highlands. Cross by speedboat to Isabela for two nights of snorkelling, wetlands and a long walk to the Sierra Negra crater, then return to Santa Cruz for a free day and a boat trip to one of the uninhabited islands.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Puerto Ayora
Day 1 · Puerto Ayora
Your guide meets you at Baltra airport for the bus and short ferry across to Santa Cruz. In the highlands, visit a ranch where giant tortoises roam free, walk through a lava tunnel and have lunch, then plant a native scalesia tree at the Pájaro Brujo Reserve before driving on to Puerto Ayora.
Isabela
Day 2 · Isabela
A speedboat takes you to Isabela, where a small boat heads out to Tintoreras Islet. Walk among marine iguanas, look for white-tip reef sharks resting in a lava channel and penguins on the rocks, then snorkel with turtles and reef fish. After lunch, visit the Flamingo Lagoon and part of the wetlands.
Day 3 · Isabela
With a private guide, walk from El Cura to the viewpoint over the vast crater of Sierra Negra and on across lava fields to Volcán Chico, about 8 km each way. Lunch is at a nearby farm, and the day ends with a snorkel in the sheltered lagoon of Concha de Perla, often shared with sea lions and turtles.
Puerto Ayora
Day 4 · Puerto Ayora
An early boat back to Santa Cruz with a breakfast box for the crossing. The rest of the day is free in Puerto Ayora.
Day 5 · Puerto Ayora
Cross the island by bus to the Itabaca Channel and board a yacht for one of North Seymour, Bartolomé, Santa Fe or Plazas. A naturalist guide leads a walk on the island and a snorkel before you return in the late afternoon.
Day 6 · Puerto Ayora
Breakfast, then a driver takes you across the island to the Itabaca Channel, a 10-minute boat crossing and a short bus ride to Baltra airport, and helps you check in.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Puerto Ayora · 3 nights
Your first night and your last two. Or similar
Isabela · 2 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Ecuador
8 days · 7 nights
Quito → Cotopaxi → Baños → Riobamba → Cuenca → Guayaquil
Begin in Quito and travel south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes with your own driver and guide, from Cotopaxi and the Quilotoa crater to the waterfalls of Baños and the high slopes of Chimborazo. The second half takes in the Inca site of Ingapirca, colonial Cuenca and the lakes of Cajas before a long descent to Guayaquil.
Ecuador
9 days · 8 nights
Guayaquil → San Cristóbal → Española → Floreana → Santa Cruz → Bartolomé Island → North Seymour → San Cristóbal
You fly from Guayaquil to San Cristóbal and board your small yacht for Kicker Rock, Cerro Brujo and the booby colonies at Punta Pitt. The route then runs south to Española and Floreana, back to Santa Cruz for giant tortoises, and on to Bartolomé's Pinnacle Rock. South Plaza and North Seymour bring land iguanas and frigatebirds before you head home.
Ecuador
6 days · 5 nights
Quito
Stay five nights in Quito and set out each day in a different direction. See the colonial old town and the equator, go north to Otavalo market and the crater lake of Cuicocha, south along the Avenue of the Volcanoes to Cotopaxi, and west into the cloud forest at Mindo.
Land on Baltra and spend your first night on Santa Cruz after meeting giant tortoises in the highlands. Cross by speedboat to Isabela for two nights of snorkelling, wetlands and a long walk to the Sierra Negra crater, then return to Santa Cruz for a free day and a boat trip to one of the uninhabited islands.
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Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Ecuador, closest in length first.
Small group tour | 6 days | Quito
Private tour | 8 days | Quito · Cotopaxi · Guayaquil
Expedition cruise | 9 days | Guayaquil · San Cristóbal · Puerto Ayora
River and ocean cruise | 9 days | Quito · San Cristóbal · North Seymour Island
