Today our guests explored Santa Cruz Island. After a delicious breakfast we landed in Puerto Ayora, which is the home port of most of the tour boat operations in the Galapagos.This town is also where the headquarters of the Galapagos National Park and of the Charles Darwin Research Station are located. Today our guests learned about the iconic giant tortoise restoration project and hiked into giant tortoise territory.
- Daily Expedition Reports
- 08 Sep 2017
Santa Cruz Island, 9/8/2017, National Geographic Islander
- Aboard the National Geographic Islander
- Galápagos
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