Combined cruises [diving sites and land sites] usually operate 8 day tours, but some special departures offer a 10-12 or 15 days itineraries. This option normally combines two dives per day with one land visit.

Full diving itineraries for 8 or more days are available, with two to three dives per day and some night dives, and will normally include Wolf and Darwin Islands, consider the best diving sites but located far away from any other visitor site. on a map the Galapagos islands look very small, but in fact they are very large and spread out over a huge area, typical sailing times from dive site to dive site range from 3 to 14 hours.

Here some samples of combined and full diving itineraries:

Combined tour: land visits and ocassional diving
Central islands 8 days - 7 nights
This is a tour of the central islands that combines land visits with diving every day except arrival and departure days. The attractive feature of this tour is the opportunity to enjoy almost all of the land and marine creatures of the archipelago and also the impressive island landscapes.
Divers must have at least 20 dives logged

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Full diving tour:
Darwin & Wolf 8 days -7 nights
Darwin and Wolf are the northernmost islands of the archipelago, famous among the most desirable dive sites in the world. The very few tourists that visit these islands are all divers because this unique and fragile environment is closed to land visits. Thousands of seabirds crowd the precipitous cliffs and brushy heights. Strong currents are the ruling feature of these singular dive sites, where a diver can station himself at a rock to watch vast schools of every kind of fish drift past. The sites are especially known for the high presence of hammerheads and big Galapagos sharks as well as marine turtles, various types of rays, mantas, dolphins, morays, and invertebrates. Here, you may live the waking dream of finding yourself with the greatest fish of all, the whale shark.
Only for divers with at least 40 dives logged.


For more information about diving tour, please check our list of recommended boats.

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