GalÁpaGos: Wildlife
Wonderland
Tauck Bridges
Family Value
Includes:
• Four nights aboard M/V Santa
Cruz, built exclusively for
Galápagos Islands cruising
• Licensed Naturalist Guides
of Galápagos National Park
who accompany private Tauck
Bridges shore excursions
(average of two daily),
offering hands-on natural
Shared family discoveries you’ll never forget in the Galápagos
history lessons; they also
lead ECO Moments (Explore,
Cruise aboard the expedition ship, M / V Santa Cruz, to islands time forgot and
Conserve, Observe); entrance
fee to Galápagos National Park experience a wildlife wonderland beyond compare. Ride aboard a Zodiac-style
panga and find out what a wet landing means on some shore excursions. Imagine
• Visit to the Charles Darwin
Research Station to learn
coming nose-to-nose with a giant tortoise, sunbathing with iguanas and swimming
about marine and terrestrial
with friendly sea lions. ECO Moments and daily shore excursions are shared with
conservation in the islands
and to meet giant tortoises
on-board naturalists who offer exciting opportunities to discover a living laboratory
that takes you back more than a million years. See birds wearing bright red and
• Ride aboard Chiva Express in
blue “shoes”; crabs dressed in red and yellow shells; and “prehistoric
Quito for fun-filled visits to a
dairy farm and a hacienda
lizards” diving in the sea for their supper. And on an old-fashioned
train ride through the Andean countryside from Quito, your
• 18 meals (7 breakfasts,
family learns firsthand all about life on an Ecuadorian farm.
5 lunches, 6 dinners)
Day 1. Arrive Quito, Ecuador
• All gratuities to Tauck Director,
ship staff, drivers & local guides;
Tour begins: Swissôtel Quito. A transfer is included upon arrival in Quito from
applicable fuel surcharges,
Mariscal Sucre International Airport to the Swissôtel Quito. Get set for
porterage, taxes, service charges adventure in and around Ecuador’s capital city early tomorrow morning!
and airport transfers
Call your travel agent or Tauck Bridges at 866-636-6500
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