Aqua Mare's East Galápagos Islands

Reward yourself with an adventure-of-a-lifetime expedition to islands born of fire, the Archipelago of Galapagos. Cruising aboard the luxurious super-yacht Aqua Mare in the company of just 16 expeditioners over eight days you will witness one of history’s greatest scientific discoveries by experiencing the extraordinary power of nature to adapt to its environment: evolution.

Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, this remote Archipelago of 18 islands and more than 100 small islets lies around 1,000 kilometres off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Its proximity to the equator, volcanic activity, and influence from three ocean currents (Humboldt, Panama, and Cromwell) created a distinctive set of environmental conditions that allowed for a unique land and marine 

ecosystems to develop over the course of four million years. Each island offers a different landscape, from mountainous terrains scattered with shield volcanoes and lava fields, arid zones covered with endemic cacti, to beautiful white-sand beaches and turquoise waters. Today the Galapagos Islands represent the world’s richest marine biosphere reserve. What sets the Galapagos truly apart is the remarkable levels of endemic plant and animal life, more than anywhere else in the world. Nearly 80 percent of land birds and mammals, over 90 percent of reptiles, more than 30 percent of plants and around 20 percent of marine life are native to the Galapagos Islands including the marine iguana, giant tortoise, flightless cormorant, Galapagos penguin and Darwin’s finches, just to name a few.