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What Galapagos Excursions and Activities do you prefer?<\/span><\/h1>\n

For your Galapagos Excursions, decide if you want to see the Galapagos by motoring between islands and living on a boat. Or would you prefer staying on one or two islands and taking day excursions?  You can do some of each; we did both.<\/p>\n

How to decide – a cruise, a land package, diving?<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Our boat – First Class Cat<\/p><\/div>\n

A cruise will be much more expensive than a land trip. However, it is not possible to see the remote islands if you do not go on a boat cruise.<\/p>\n

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on 7-night\/8-day boat cruises, especially if they don’t go back to shore to combine two 3-night\/4-day trips into a 7-night\/8-day trip.]<\/p>\n

Galapagos Boat Cruise<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We chose a boat cruise<\/a> on a catamaran for 16 passengers, and 4 nights on land because we scheduled daily diving with a dive operation off of Santa Cruz. Since we couldn’t dive due to catching head colds, and we had seen so much on the boat, 4 nights\/5 days on land was way too much. If we had gone diving, it would have likely been the right amount of time.<\/p>\n

If you love being on the water, choose a cruise for your Galapagos excursions. A cruise will take you places that you cannot go on excursions from land trips.<\/p>\n

A 7-night\/8-day trip means you will see different and the same wildlife on different lava islands. The activities tend to be hiking and snorkeling each day that you are cruising. For many, 5 days is plenty, but you won’t get to the most remote spots.<\/p>\n

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If you choose a cruise for your Galapagos excursions, you’ll need to choose:<\/p>\n