Our Galapagos & Andes Trek tour is a 20-day adventure that will take you on a journey through the Andes and the Galapagos Islands. This program includes visits to the three inhabited islands and the main highlights of the Andes in Ecuador. You will have the opportunity to enjoy a diverse range of activities and excursions, all of which are meticulously planned to ensure you experience the mountains, beaches, and other attractions that this tour has to offer. The activities in this tour vary in difficulty from easy to moderate.
Our Galapagos & Andes Trek tour is a 20-day adventure that will take you on a journey through the Andes and the Galapagos Islands. This program includes visits to the three inhabited islands and the main highlights of the Andes in Ecuador. You will have the opportunity to enjoy a diverse range of activities and excursions, all of which are meticulously planned to ensure you experience the mountains, beaches, and other attractions that this tour has to offer. The activities in this tour vary in difficulty from easy to moderate.
DURATION |
20 Days – 19 Nights |
HIGHLIGHTS |
Quito, Middle of the World, Inca Ruins, Cotopaxi, Quilotoa, Baños, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz, Isabela & Baltra |
HOTELS |
Portal de Cantuña, Mama Hilda, Mountain Lodge, Isla de Baños, CANN’S House, Deja Vu, The Wooden House. If there is no availability, we change to a similar hotel class. |
WEAR |
Clothes for very cold and very warm, including a waterproof jacket, Comfortable athletic clothing, hiking boots, hat, jacket, sunscreen, and swimsuit. |
COST |
$4,100 per person, departures from 2 people. |
INCLUDED |
Accommodations in Quito and the mountain adventure trek Guided excursions on the Galapagos Transfers from and to the airport in Quito Tour to Kicker Rock and San Cristobal Tour to Los Tuneles & Sierra Negra Volcano in Isabella Private Transportation in The Andes Breakfast & Box lunch or snacks during the tours 19 nights of accommodation Flights to Galapagos |
NOT INCLUDED |
Meals not mentioned in the itinerary, personal expenses INGALA transit card (20 USD p. p.) Entrance fee Galapagos National Park (100 USD for adults, 50 USD for children aged less than 12 years) |
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Arrival Day
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City Line Quito Tour + Inca Ruins
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Quito Cable Car - Free
4
Cotopaxi - Refuge
5
Quilotoa - Chugchilan
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Quilotoa - Insiliví
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Baños
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Free Day in Baños
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Flight to Galapagos - San Cristobal
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El Junco Lagoon & Pto. Chino
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Kicker Rock - San Cristobal Tour
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Transfer, Charles Darwin Foundation, Tortuga Bay
By the afternoon take a walk to Tortuga Bay Beach, there you can spend the rest of the afternoon, bring some water, sunscreen, snacks, and a towel to lie on the beach.
Once you get to the beach, you will find “Playa Brava,” swim carefully here as it has strong currents. To the right, you will find a calm beach where you can swim, snorkel and relax. For dinner, you can go on your own to walk by the port and walk through the many restaurants that offer a diverse menu.
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Las Grietas - Transfer to Isabella
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Volcan Sierra Negra - Transfer to Santa Cruz
In Isabella visit the Breeding center that you can walk to close to the town and walk by the flamingo lake that if you are lucky you can see some.
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Los Tuneles Cabo Rosa, Puerto Villamil tour
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Free Morning - Transfer to Santa Cruz
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Flight Back to Mainland
On the way, visit the highlands of Santa Cruz Island where you visit a reserve of turtles in wild state and pass through a lava tunnel underground.
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Tour Reviews
Hello Diego,
Hope this finds you well and that your knee is much better. We are settling back into our routines now and often thinking back to the last few weeks in Ecuador. It was a very good trip and we really enjoyed discovering your beautiful country.
As promised, we are sending you comments on the experience.
In terms of accommodations, all but one of the places where we stayed were good. Cann’s House and the Wooden House were the best, both in terms of the hotels themselves and the helpfulness of the staff. The staff at the Deja Vu and the Portal de Cantuna were also very kind and helpful. The Isla de Banos was also very nice and we really enjoyed the massages they offer. The only place we really didn’t like was the Quito Airport Suites. We couldn’t sleep because of all the road and air traffic and we felt isolated in a location without any services or attractions we could walk to. The staff were kind and helpful but there were clearly too few of them to run the place more smoothly. While conveniently close to the airport, we feel that it would be better to choose another property. The shuttle driver also does a dangerous manœuvre backing up on part of the highway to the airport in order to do a U-turn, which we feel is unnecessary and unsettling.
The excursions you had booked for us in the Galapagos were all excellent, as was the tour at Cotopaxi with Estela. We also enjoyed the tours you organized with Sebastian in Quito and the waterfalls tour with Clever in Banos.
The trekking was excellent if sometimes challenging (like at Los Ilinizas!). We very much appreciated you sharing your knowledge about the places as well as guiding us along the trails. We also appreciated learning from Clever about the geology of the Andes. With you, we visited some extraordinarily beautiful places and we loved being in nature. The Andes are very special to us.
We were a little disappointed by the hot springs in Papallacta, which seemed more like an outdoor pool than a natural retreat. We understand that the location more popular with tourists is quite a bit farther from Quito but it may be worth the extra drive to go there.
One thing we found stressful was sorting out the logistics for transfers on and between the islands. It would have been helpful to have more details written down in the itinerary (i.e. where we are met by a hotel employee or taxi driver at the wharf, where the lancha offices are for each boat company, information about needing small change for the many water taxis we have to take back and forth, times for the excursions or boats to the next island, etc.) We also would have felt more reassured if we had received tickets or photos of the tickets for the inter-island boats well in advance, as we had limited access to wi-fi and on Isabela, it didn’t always work properly.
The Galapagos were truly extraordinary and we feel privileged to have visited them. We felt the whole time that we were in a unique and very special place because of the natural environment and the wildlife.
A special note of thanks to you and to Clever for taking the time to return to Insilivi to help us search for Dan’s lost phone. We really appreciate that you did that for us.
Thank you once again for organizing this extraordinary trip and for guiding us on the trekking. Thanks again also to Clever for driving us for a week and to Sebastian in Quito as well.
Best regards,
Daniel and Philippe
Thanks a lot for your feedback Daniel and Philipe,
I will take in mind all the points that you mentioned to make it perfect for our clients.
Thanks for Booking your trip with Barefoot Expeditions
All the best from Quito 🙂
Diego
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