Aqua Itinerary

Route A - 7N

8 days / 7 nights

About Aqua

  • Comfortable cruising experience with modern decor and room to relax
  • Exciting diving and naturalist liveaboard tours in Galapagos National Park
  • Outstanding service with a nearly 1:1 crew to guest ratio
  • Incredible encounters with whale sharks and schooling hammerheads

Aqua is a recently updated motor yacht offering liveaboard diving adventures in Galapagos National Park. This spacious vessel boasts stylish interiors, generous cabins and common areas, and outstanding facilities for scuba divers. Plus, friendly, attentive, and safety-focused service from a top-rated crew. Aqua offers a variety of exciting itineraries, with diving or naturalist adventures starring sea lions, penguins, sharks, and other incredible wildlife. This boat represents excellent value for money, with some of the Galapagos Island's most affordable itineraries and cabins to suit every guest.

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Itinerary details

8 days / 7 nights
19
Advanced Open Water - Minimum 50 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Witness the unparalleled biodiversity that inspired Charles Darwin
  • Dive with up to 30 different species of shark during one incredible trip!
  • Visit a flamingo lagoon, the Charles Darwin Research Station, and more
  • Endemic penguins, fur seals, marine iguanas and giant tortoises
  • Some of the biggest schools of hammerhead sharks on the planet
  • Large marine life including manta rays, whale sharks, and sea lions
  • Hike the highlands of Santa Cruz to a Galapagos tortoise sanctuary
  • Big pods of dolphins and thick schools of tuna and jacks

Day 1: Upon arrival at Seymour Ecological Airport, your guide will meet you at the airport, assist you with the luggage, and accompany you on the short bus ride to the boat. After formalities and briefing about safety and activity details, you will enjoy lunch, before heading off for your first dive at Baltra North East. This is the perfect spot to start your adventure with moderate currents, fascinating lava and rock formations, as well as an incredible number of marine species. 

Day 2: Today’s activities will be focussed on Isabela Island, with 2 dives at Cape Marshal, followed by 1 dive at City of the Mantas. After returning aboard the boat after your final dive, the navigation towards Darwin will begin.

Day 3-5: Due to the large number of dive sites available around Darwin and Wolf, as well as the marked influence that marine conditions can have on the area, the dive sites will be chosen with these factors in mind. The guide will talk with all passengers in advance to inform them about the location, expected conditions and alternatives of each site, and learn about their interests. A night dive may also be offered if conditions allow. On day five, the vessel will then depart back towards the main archipelago. 

Day 6: Arriving back at Isabela Island, you will have the opportunity to do 1 dive at Vicente Roca Point, followed by 1 dive at Cape Douglas on Fernandina Island. 

Day 7: Enjoy 2 dives at Cousin’s Rock, Santiago, before trekking through the highlands of Santa Cruz in the afternoon. The native scalesia forest of El Chato Tortoise Reserve is the best place to search for Galapagos giant tortoises in their most authentic setting.

Day 8: It’s time to say goodbye to Galapagos. You will be assisted off the vessel and back to the airport by the naturalist guide and some crew members.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.


Transfer details

Departure

12:00pm

Baltra

Baltra Airport: GPS

Return

08:00am

Baltra

Baltra Airport: GPS

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