Island Hopping
Visit Floreana, Isabela and Santa Cruz to experience the archipelago’s variety.
Galapagos Islands
This island-hopping, land-based adventure through the Galapagos Islands is ideally suited to wandering wildlife-lovers that might harbour a distaste for sailing or a preference for unique island properties with irresistible features.
Visit Floreana, Isabela and Santa Cruz to experience the archipelago’s variety.
Come face to face with fearless marine creatures while swimming, snorkelling or diving.
Journey around the islands during the day, returning to the comfort of a hotel each night.
Explore on foot or by bike, taking care to bypass slow-moving tortoises and marine iguanas.
While sailing is the most traditional way to experience the Galapagos Islands, we know that boat voyages are not for everyone… but we also know the greatest alternatives. Travel between three uniquely enchanting islands and sleep in hand-picked properties, venturing out to explore their exotic flora and fauna during land and sea excursions while also having the opportunity to integrate with the local Galapagueños. When you book a trip to the Galapagos Islands with Steppes Travel, you will also benefit from a complimentary, six-month membership to the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
Those who would prefer not to travel around the archipelago on a live-on boat can still experience all that the islands have to offer, but at a more leisurely pace that boasts additional flexibility and the comforts of a hotel (some with a pool and spa). Travelling between three uniquely bio-diverse islands that teem with wildlife, land-based Galapagos-goers can gain a more authentic insight into local life while still being able to venture out on daily excursions.
From sustainable yoga retreats and private oceanfront villas to highland forest tents and minimalist eco hotels, we have hand-picked a selection of unique properties that offer everything from private yachts and guided daily excursions to bamboo yoga studios and coffee plantations. Knowing where to stay can be difficult, especially as many properties are remotely located, so whether a solo traveller, honeymooners or family adventurers, we can apply our years of experience travelling around the islands to suggest the best option for you.
Move between the once pirate-infested Floreana Island, the large and volcanic Isabela Island and the research-hub Santa Cruz Island, discovering salt-water lagoon flamingos, nutrient-rich marine feeding grounds and remarkable lava tunnels. Between speed boat transfers and snorkel equipment, open-air buses and guided excursions, organising land-based journeys around the archipelago can be complicated, but using our years of experience travelling around the islands and staying at the properties, we can tailor your trip to you and take care of all the little niggling details.
Venture out on a day trip to snorkel in deep blue waters where silhouetted sharks can appear in the distance and elusive sun fish may even make an appearance. In shallower turquoise waters with white sandy floors that are teeming with marine life, perhaps free dive to marvel at the starfish or dart out of the way of a fever of golden rays. Explore Los Tuneles under water lava tunnels, inhabited by rays and seahorses, and paddle in Shark Alley.
Trek to Los Gemelos craters, bypass highland Galapagos tortoises, explore pirate caves and bike the Wetlands Trail past colonies of iguanas to the historic Wall of Tears that once housed prisoners of World War II. At the Puerto Ayora Fish Market, watch as patient dog-like sea lions wait for scraps of seafood, and visit the Charles Darwin Research Station to learn about the important work being carried out. In enviably small groups, or even privately, tour the islands in the company of expert naturalist guides and marvel at their biodiversity. On Santa Cruz Island, take a trip to the highlands to see enormous pit craters, walk (and crawl) through epic lava tunnels, and walk amongst 1.5-metre-long giant tortoises that roam freely through lush grasslands.
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