Galapagos, yacht reservation

So....yes! We finally go to Ecuador. At least we've just made a Galapagos cruise reservation. With help of polish lady in this remote location, we managed to get two seats on Amigo yacht for 5 days.
This is one of the cheapest yacht. 5-day trip will cost about 1500 USD altogether with Galapagos National Park entry fee (110 USD) and flight from Quito to Galapagos (417 USD). Of course it doesn't have any piece of luxury, but we get used to such conditions and more important is to see something nice than to spend 5 days in 5-star hotel with snobs.

In case you're interested in what you can see during 5-days Galapagos trip, here's the Amigo schedule:

Day 1: Flight from Quito to Baltra Island. Visit Black Turtle Cove. See many cacti, palo santo tree, mangroves, ferry through Itabaka channel to Santa Cruz Island. Bus to Puerto Ayora. Yacht boarding. Visiting Charles Darwin research center, watching galapagos turtle.

Day 2: Watching iguanas, sea lions, endemic crabs, birds (endemic gulls, endemic swallows, Darwin's chaffinches, puffins). Looking for sesuvium plants making red carpet in the east part of island and many cacti. Afternoon we'll sightsee Santa Fe island watching giant prickly pears and iguanas, sea lions and birds colony. During night ship goes to Española island.

Day 3: On this day we'll visit cape Suarez, watching motley iguanas, sea lions, endemic crabs and one of the most diverse bird colony (albatrosses, boobies, endemic seagulls, oystercatchers, cucubes, endemic pigeons, Darwin's chaffinches, etc.) . Here we'll also see nice natural phenomenon with water fountain spouting up of the rocks. Afternoon we'll visit Gardner bay on Española Island with nice beach. It's opportunity to snorkel a little and take some underwater photography.

Day 4: On this day yacht goes to Kicker Rock - lonely rock standing in the ocean that symbolize Galapagos islands. On this rock many sea birds live. We'll meet frigates, tropical birds, boobies, etc. Then we plan to see San Cristobal island altogether with Baquerizo Moreno that is capitol of the while archipelago. There we'd like to visit Centro de Interpretación and Cerro de las Tijeretas.

Day 5: The last day of the cruise will begin with sea lions colony on Seymour Norte island. We'll also have a chance to see iguanas, sea birds like frigates and blue-footed boobies. Then we'll go to Baltra island and fly to Quito.

Above map comes from nice website Guide2Galapagos. I recommend it!

Hint: if you want go to Galapagos, make your cruise reservation half year ahead. Number of seats is limited every year!