San Cristobal Island`s Visitor Sites

1) Interpretation Center & Tijeretas Hill, 2) Cerro Colorado Tortoise Reserve, 3) Cerro Brujo, 4) Punta Pitt & Islet.

San Cristobal Island´s location

Located on the east of the archipelago, which means it is the farthest of the hot spot of all, about 200 kilometers away from it with no volcanic activity.

San Cristobal Island´s capital

This island is the capital of the archipelago, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, with a population of about 7 thousand people. Human development started on the early 1832, firstly on the highlands on a sugar production settlement.

San Cristobal Island´s animals species

1) Red Footed Booby. 2) Sea Lion. 3) Galapagos Giant Tortoise

Darwin Bay - Genovesa Island | Visitor Sites |Galapagos Islands

Darwin Bay - Genovesa Island

Sandy coral beach with a great viewpoint of the bay. From within the flooded caldera of Tower Island, we set foot onto a sandy beach to be greeted by swallow-tailed gulls often said to be the most beautiful gull in the world. Our short, flat, trail leads us past stands of mangroves and saltbush on which we have our best possible look at nesting red-footed boobies and great frigatebirds. At the tidal lagoon, we may also see the rarest gulls in the world, our very own, endemic lava gulls.

Two passengers in Darwin Bay, a pthe red lace where you can find a red footed booby

Disembarking: Wet.
Type of Terrain: Sandy.
Difficulty: Low.
Activities: 45 min kayaking / 25 min glass-bottom boat / 1-hour deep or beach snorkeling / 1 hour 15 min hike.
Highlights: Swallow-tailed and lava gulls, frigatebirds (minor & magnificent), mockingbirds, yellow-crowned night herons, large beaked cactus finch, the smallest marine iguanas of the islands.