| Animals | Scenery | Culture | Shopping | Food |
| **** | ** | * |
| Highlights | |
| Bartolome | moon landscape, nicest scenery of all islands |
| Isabella | Tagus cove: nice view of a lake above
the sea; Urbina bay: good snorkeling possibilities, giant tortoises, land iguanas, Galapagos penguins |
| Fernandina | Punta Espinosa: beautiful lava formations, marine iguanas, flightless cormorants, fur seals |
| Santiago | Puerto Egas: birds, sea lions |
| Rabida | good snorkeling possibilies, green sea turtles, sea lions |
| Santa Cruz | Charles Darwin Reaserch Center |
| San Christobal | nicest beach (playa Ochoa), sea lions, Kicker rock |
| Espanola |
Punta Suarez: albatrosses, marine iguanas, masked boobies |
| Seymour | blue-footed boobies, frigatebirds |
| Tips | |
| itinerary | we recommend an 8 day trip and a good,
small boat (for example the Coral)
that is able to reach the further outlying islands like Isabella and Espanola if you don't have the time to do a full trip, be aware that the north-west islands have mainly reptiles and the south-east islands have more birds |
| water temperatur | it is cold, very cold (16 - 18 degrees celsius), but once you see the first animals in the water you forget about it |