Overview & Highlights
This wildlife focused holiday combines the bird watching paradise of the Ecuadorian cloud forest, with the Galapagos Islands, famed for being home to one of the richest and most unique populations of animals on Earth.
You begin in Quito, Ecuador’s cultural capital steeped in colonial history, but with a keen movement towards modernity and a growing reputation for culinary splendour. Then head northwest to the cloud forest, where the varied elevations and resulting divergence of flora provide the range of habitats and food sources required to host a vast array of distinctive and beautiful birds. The tour ends with a 6-night cruise around the Galapagos Islands, arguably the greatest wildlife spectacle in the world, and of course, once the inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
You will stay in a mid-range hotel in old-Quito, a comfortable and memorable eco-lodge in the cloud forest, a convenient airport hotel, and a spacious upper-mid-range vessel in the Galapagos, meaning you can spend your days searching for photo perfection, safe in the knowledge that a comfortable bed awaits you every evening.
- Walking tour of Quito
- Self guided hikes at Bellavista
- Kayak excursions in the Galápagos
- Snorkelling and land excursion in the Galápagos
- 6 night cruise in the Galápagos
Outline itinerary
Day 1
Arrive in Quito and transfer to your hotel.
Day 2
Guided walking tour of colonial Quito.
Day 3
By road to the cloud forest
Days 4-5
Range of hikes from the lodge
Day 6
By road to Quito.
Day 7
Fly to the Galapagos and board your expedition cruise
Days 8-12
Expedition cruise around the Galapagos Islands
Day 13
Fly to the mainland and connect with your international flight home.
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