Trip Details:
✔ Departure Time: 09:00 am / 11:00 / 14:00
✔ From: Santa Cruz Island - Puerto Ayora
✔ Activities: 100% hike
✔ Duration: 3 hours
✔ Route: 30 minutes
✔ Car capacity: 4 people
Tour does NOT include:
• Sodas
• Tips
• Private guide
• Lunch
Tour Includes:
✔ Transfer to and from the hotel
✔ Visit to Lava Tunnels
✔ Visit to Los Gemelos
✔ Tickets to the El Chato reserve
✔ Certified guide
✔ Pay by credit card.
Price: $125
Private taxi - 1 or 2 people.
El Chato Reserve tour itinerary
Upon arrival at El Chato Reserve, the ranch staff will wait for you to try on the rubber boots that are necessary to walk on the muddy terrain.
Galapagos tortoises can weigh up to 550 pounds and measure almost 5 feet (1.5 m). Usually, they are found resting under trees or taking mud baths. Don’t forget to turn off the flash to take photos and keep a distance of at least 6.5 feet (2 m). You can also observe black-necked stilts, finches and many guava trees – their fruits are a delight for tortoises.
A visit to the lava tunnels
Accompanied by the guide, you will enter the lava tunnels and get to know how they came to be and the different formations inside them. The main point of the tour to El Chato Reserve is seeing the giant tortoises of Galapagos walk free in a natural environment.
