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The 10 Best Things to do Good for Adrenaline Seekers in San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands
Ages ago, a few volcanoes got together and decided to form an island. Gorgeous San Cristobal is a jewel of the Galapagos, where plump sea lions sun themselves on coral beaches and hermit crabs scuttle along peaceful lagoons. Snorkel or dive at Kicker Rock to explore the intricate remains of a lava cone, spot beautiful wildlife along the walking trails to aptly-named Frigatebird Hill, or frolic—slowly—with the legendarily large tortoises at the Galapaguera de Cerro Colorado nature preserve.
Restaurants in San Cristobal
1. Galapagos Underwater
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5.0 based on 158 reviews
Galapagos Underwater are distinguished by their creativity, security, professionalism and attention to detail and this encourages us to offer a new adventure route to discover on ISABELA ISLAND. We provide the service with clients who made their reservations via email or through TripAdvisor with their associated companies. ABOUT US: Since 2001, Jose A Bravo Founder and CEO Galapagos Underwater has developed, organized, and delivered top-quality diving tours in one of the world´s hotspots of biodiversity. We offer a complete range of products to explore practically every dive site of this wonderfully diverse marine reserve. For more 8 years, Galapagos Underwater has been leading adventurers like you to one of the world´s most exciting travel destinations, a place of countless natural and cultural wonders.
2. Planet Ocean Dive Center
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5.0 based on 77 reviews
Local AGENCY Dive shop Dive Center Dive school PADI -SNSI Marine,acuatics programs Profesional guide The tours on boat it fantastic. Kicker Rock is the most interest for Diving and snorkel m, it possible see a Hammerhead sharks, white tip Shark, Galapagos shaks, Black tip sharks, mobulas, rays, a lot of fishes, optupus, salema fish, in the navigation it possible see dolphins, whales, etc.
3. LavaWave Surf
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5.0 based on 33 reviews
Lavawave Surf is a travel agency located in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno on San Cristobal Island in Galapagos, Ecuador. It offers land and water adventure tours focused primarily on surfing in the Galapagos Islands Our packages include the best day tours, accommodations and surf lessons, so that our clients experience Galapagos through its unique island culture, sports, and adventure.
4. Ecuagringo Fishing
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5.0 based on 90 reviews
Complete custom packages for fishing charters and adventure in San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands. Our company started the marlin fishery in the Galapagos, explored and pioneered the waters since 1997. We are the most experienced fishing charter company in the Galapagos offering pitch baiting, light tackle, fly fishing, spinning, popping and bottom fishing.
5. Puerto Chino Beach
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4.5 based on 324 reviews
Reviewed By CherieC72 - Sydney, Australia
My husband and I have recently returned from a trip to the Galapagos Islands. The day that we went China Beach on San Cristobal, it was spectacular. Blue sky, perfect small waves, fabulous water temperature and super white sand. It was gorgeous. Coming from Australia where we have amazing beaches, this certainly compared to them. Unfortunately we had no wildlife around on our day, but that didn't spoil it for us. From the car park, I think it is about a 10 - 15 minute walk to the beach along a path where you can see many different cactus. We LOVED it. The only negative for me, is that there is no shade on the beach. I am very fair and really need to try and stay out of the sun if and when possible. However, I did my best to stay protected and we both loved. Take plenty of water and snacks. Enjoy.
6. Kicker Rock
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4.5 based on 1,119 reviews
Reviewed By NilsEling - Zurich, Switzerland
We got lucky on the day and saw 20 hammerheads, 6 Eagle rays, a bunch of reef and Galapagos sharks, and countless turtles. The divers on the other hand didn't see anything. So it depends on the conditions what you're going to see.
7. La Loberia
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4.5 based on 497 reviews
Reviewed By myom624 - Coquitlam, Canada
After about a 10-minute walk along the seaside trail from the entrance area was arriving at this crescent-shaped beach just with a "moderate length" of about 300 meters (or just about 200 meters of it in a crescent preceded by about 100 meters of a straight line) where unfolded in front of my eyes was an estimate of about 15 adult sea lions (& may be about the same number of tiny young ones) mostly on the sand but also some in the water, and yes that "amazing spectacle" (without exaggeration since it was really pretty much the "next-to-best" scene featured on my Galapagos tourist card which features a number of sea lions on the long Tortuga Bay beach on Santa Cruz which I found in reality was just with iguanas and no sea lions at all) was what made my "day trip" to this island "absolutely worthwhile" (and that despite a pretty limited time of only about 6 hours spent on the Island before returning to Santa Cruz); also quite enjoyable at this beach site apart from seeing the sea lions was the wide-open sea view (although this beach being nowhere in comparable length to the Tortuga Bay beach on Santa Cruz & the "long beach" on Isabela), and yes it's actually from the trail to it than from the beach itself I would say that the sea view is a "more mesmerizing" one (with also a "high ridge" at some distance seen past the water). Leaving Santa Cruz at about 6 45 am on the boat LP Andy II (a round trip ticket of about 70 US$ which you can just get on like the day before from the ticket office near the pier on the "west end" of Ave. Charles Darwin) for about a 2.5-hour ride with my arrival time shortly after 9 am at the boat dock of this island, it was also pretty easy to find a taxi on the waterfront street for just a 5-to-10-minute ride to this beach site (actually only after breakfast at a 2-storied restaurant just across the street from the boat dock). And with only somewhat over an hour spent at this site (won't need much more at this relatively small beach unless you plan to swim), I walked about 40 minutes back to the town's waterfront passing by: this island's airport (which is right alongside the "solitary road" leading from this site shortly after leaving), the nice "street art scenes" (featuring some Galapagos animals & such) along a street section, the big fish statue (a marlin or such with a long snout) at a small roundabout where nearby is also a playground with a big "bronze sea lion", and the sizeable "name sign" of this island (a beautiful one if you look closely with each letter kind of "artistically designed") which is displayed right on the waterfront. And yes, back on the waterfront with still about 2 hours to spend before the "return boat" at 3 pm, it was a nice time spent watching the boats in the water & the sea lions on shore (including those among the rocks around the boat dock where actually I saw just about the same number of them as had been seen at this beach site).
8. Punta Pitt
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4.5 based on 54 reviews
Reviewed By fizzy1991 - Nashville, United States
This peninsula is on the north shore of San Cristobal Island. Made from two volcanoes with lava flows down to a pristine beach. From the beach there is a long walk after a steep path that runs through black lava rocks. The peaks and valley's are an interesting geological marvel. Wear very good shoes for this hike!
9. Galapagos Eco Fishing
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4.5 based on 105 reviews
GALAPAGOS ECO FISHING is a travel agency dedicated in giving the tourits an experience of a life time! We have fishing tours, the famous 360° tour all around the island, daily tours to the Kicker Rock and Punta Pitt, isla lobos, Bartolome, Seymour Norte, Floreana, Española, plus ferry tickets, and much more!
10. Scuba Eden
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4.5 based on 79 reviews
Scuba Eden was founded by Galapagos Naturalist Guide, Ramiro Flores, in 2015. We offer a variety of services for Snorkelers, Divers and Land-based Tourists. Our Daily Tours include sites such as Kicker Rock (Leon Dormido) and a visit one of our incredible beaches (Cerro Brujo or Manglecito) or Punta Pitt and the Galapaguera (Tortoise Reserve) and more. Please contact us for more details. We strive to provide excellent service and a tour that meets your specific needs. We look forward to sharing our special part of the world with you!
