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Discover the "Wonders of Galapagos" with FAMTrips.travel!

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<p style="font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">Discover Charles Darwin’s “Wonder of Nature” in Galapagos with FAMTrips.travel and Tours4theWorld! Immediately following our program to Peru, FAMTrips.travel will be hosting you for a land-based 7 night program from Quito, Ecuador to Galapagos! For agents who want to extend their time to take part in both FAMTrips.travel Educational Adventures, you are welcome to do so! If you prefer to join us only for the amazing Galapagos experience, you are invited, as well!</p>
<p style="font-size: 20px; text-align: left;">For the first time, FAMTrips.travel will explore the flora and fauna of this most incredible destination! From the striking and diverse landscape to the creatures that inhabit its islands, you are sure to be changed by the experience! From giant tortoises that have battled extinction to the merry sea lions who will greet us, even at our beachfront hotel, to the sought after, blue-footed boobie, marine iguanas, penguins, whitetip sharks, and so many more wonderful inhabitants! We will trek with our naturalist guides to greet them all during our remarkable week together.</p>
<strong>Tour Includes: </strong>
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	<li>All transfers, &amp; Ecorted by FAMTrips.travel representative</li>
	<li>2 nights in Quito at Grand Hotel Alameda Mercure ( arrival)</li>
	<li>4 nights in Galapagos, double accommodation at Sol y Mar beachfront hotel</li>
	<li>1 night in Quito at Hotel Alameda Mercure ( departure)</li>
	<li>City Tour of Quito</li>
	<li>Visit the “Middle of the World City”</li>
	<li>Go up on the “Teleferico” – Cable Car</li>
	<li>Visit Rancho Primicias (Santa Cruz Island)</li>
	<li>Visit and Tour Floreana Island</li>
	<li>Visit and Tour Isabela Island,</li>
	<li>Visit North Seymour Island or Plazas island or Bartoleme island (depends on availability)</li>
	<li>Visit Craters Gemelos</li>
	<li>All Excursions in Galapagos</li>
	<li>All meals in Galapagos (breakfast, lunch &amp; dinner)</li>
	<li>15 Meals: 7 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches and 4 Dinners</li>
	<li>Naturalist guide certified by the Galapagos National Park for the excursions</li>
	<li>Snorkeling equipment (mask and snorkel)</li>
	<li>Ingala Card $20 per person</li>
	<li>All entrances included</li>
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<strong>Not Included: </strong>
<ul>
	<li>Galapagos Air ticket Quito- Galapagos –Quito approximately. $429</li>
	<li>Galapagos National Park Tax: USD100.00 to be paid only in cash in Galapagos</li>
	<li>Soft drinks and Alcoholic Beverages</li>
	<li>Tips for Guides</li>
</ul>
<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/GalapagosItinerary.jpg" alt="" width="780" height="40" />

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 1: April 10th - Airport - Quito</span>
Welcome to the international airport! Assistance and transfer to hotel included.

<strong>Overnight at Grand Alameda Mercure Hotel or similar hotel.</strong>

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 2: April 11th - City Tour, Teleferico (view Quito from 12,387 feet)
&amp; Middle of the World</span>

After breakfast, we will go back in time a couple of hundred years while driving around the colonial section of Quito and admire architectural monuments, La Compañia Church, Independence Square, and the Presidential Palace.

Our cable car ride down offers a spectacular view of the whole city of Quito. If there is good weather, you are able to see the main elevations of the Andes Mountain chain such as: Cayambe, Antisana, Cotopaxi, Pasochoa, and Rumiñahui. You will then be driven up to the “Middle of the World City” (entrance included) where the monument that divides the Northern from the Southern Hemisphere will be visited. It was built during the XVII century when a French Expedition defined the precise location of the equatorial line. Dinner is on your own this evening and our hosts will recommend some fun places for our group to go or strike off on your own for an evening of relaxation.

<strong>Overnight at Grand Alameda Mercure Hotel. Meals included: Breakfast</strong>

<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day2.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="395" />

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 3: April 12th - Baltra – Rancho Primicia</span>
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Quito Airport to take your Galapagos flight. The passengers are greeted by guides at Baltra’s airport and transferred to the Santa Cruz Island by a short bus ride. On the road, you will visit Rancho Primicia, another giant tortoise reserve on private property in the Galapagos. The ranch is located against national park lands. The tortoises migrate here in search of cooler shaded area, water holes, and places to lay their eggs. Here you will have the opportunity to get up close to these incredible reptiles. Primicia is an excellent opportunity to take some amazing photos of these gentle giants.

<strong>Dinner and Overnight at Sol y Mar Hotel. Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner</strong>

<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day3.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="395" />

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 4: April 13th - Visit Floreana Island</span>

After breakfast, we will be picked up from the hotel at 8:00 A.M. We will take a speed boat and arrive to the “haunted” part of the island, Puerto Velasco Ibarra. We will stop at Playa Negra for lunch at local restaurant. You can also snorkel in Lobería where you can see sea lions, marine iguanas on the shores, and reefs of the bay. Return to Puerto Ayora afterwards. One of the other unique birds of this island is the Floreana Mockingbird, now only found on two small islets of the main island. Other marine life includes white-tip sharks, large rays, sea turtles, sea lions, pelagic, reef fish, and various invertebrates. We return to enjoy dinner and a relaxing evening at Sol y Mar Hotel. You might enjoy a stroll around the quaint streets of this lovely little village with new friends!

<strong>Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner</strong>

<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day4.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="395" />

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 5: April 14th - Visit Isabela Island</span>

After breakfast, we will pick you up at 7:00 am. We will take a speed boat to the Isabela Island, where we sail to Tintoreras Islet. It is named after the white-tip sharks known as “Tintoreras” who come daily to rest on the bottom of the clear water. You can also see penguins, sea lions, and marine iguanas and go snorkeling with sharks, as well as other colorful tropical fishes while enjoying the beaches of Isabela! You will have lunch at a local restaurant. We will have an opportunity to visit El Centro de Crianza. Return to our hotel Puerto Ayora late this afternoon and enjoy dinner at our hotel. The night is yours to explore and enjoy the company of the village residents and your fellow travelers.

<strong>Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner</strong>

<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day5.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="395" />

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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">Day 6: April 15th - Visit North Seymour Island
(or Plazas island or Bartoleme island depends on availability)</span>

After breakfast, we will depart to visit North Seymour Island (or Plazas island or Bartoleme island depending on availability). Quite a small island in terms of land mass, but Isla Seymour is definitely worth visiting. To explore the island, follow a circular trail roughly 2 km long leading inland and along the rocky coast that will take you through some of the biggest sea bird breeding colonies in the entire Galapagos. Here you will find birds nesting, mating, and rearing their chicks all year round. Blue-footed boobies and frigate birds are the main attractions here. Since most of the wildlife and birds in the Galapagos Islands are quite fearless, it is possible for visitors to get an up close view of the nests of many of the birds here, including the lovely Swallow-tailed Gulls and bright yellow Warblers. Lunch will be at a local restaurant. North Seymour Island is located immediately north of Baltra Island, less than an hour from the Ithabaca Canal. The small, flat island was formed by seismic geographical uplifting. Colonies of sea lions, marine iguanas, large rays and land iguanas are also found here, along with many varieties of reef fish, as well. We return to our hotel for our final night in Galapagos together and enjoy dinner.

<strong>Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner</strong>

<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day6.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="395" />
<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 7: April 16th - Galapagos - Quito
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After breakfast in the hotel, we transfer to Baltra’s airport at 9:00 A.M. On the way, you will visit Los Gemelos, formed by a series of eruptions when the islands were still active. It is the only place on the island where you can observe some species of finches, and some other endemic plants to this area.
We board our flight from Galapagos to Quito( Purchased separately as outlined above.) After we arrive back in Quito at the airport, you are met by our representative who will provide transfer to Mercure Hotel. In the afternoon enjoy the city and maybe some final last shopping There is a nice shopping market just a couple of blocks from our hotel. Overnight at Mercure Hotel or similar hotel.

<strong>Meals included: Breakfast</strong>
<img src="http://famtrips.travel/FAMS/Galapagos2016/Day7.jpg" alt="" width="800" height="204" />
<span style="font-size: 20px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #00133f; font-weight: bold;">DAY 8 - April 17th - Quito - USA</span>

Breakfast and transfer to the international airport for your departure.
<h3>Agent Rate Based on Double $1950. pp LAND ONLY
Non Industry Guest Add $100.</h3>
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