Galapagos Islands
Ikala Hotel
Ikala Hotel is located in Puerto Ayora, on Santa Cruz Island. Puerto Ayora is the most populous town in the Galapagos archipelago. Santa Cruz is the most well connected of the Galapagos Islands, with the international airport situated on adjacent Baltra Island, and the main ferry terminal located in Puerto Ayora.
There are 22 rooms, well presented as either a Standard Room, a Suite with a balcony, or one two-storey Duplex Suite. It’s positioned just a three minutes’ walk from the main pier and ferry terminal and withing easy walking distance of a good choice of restaurants, cafes and bars.
Facilities
Restaurant, bar, outdoor swimming pool, garden, 24-hour front desk, room service, luggage storage.
Rooms have air conditioning, fan, safety box, toiletries, complimentary Wi-Fi, hair dryer, laundry service.
Local Wildlife
Galapagos sea lions, giant tortoises, Darwin's finches, Galapagos doves, blue-footed boobies, pelicans, whitetip reef sharks, flamingos, iguanas
Optional Activities
Day tours to neighbouring islands; Isabela, San Cristobal and Floreana. Multi-day cruises and tours.
John Melton
Area Specialist
If you can, make time to visit The Fausto Llerena Tortoise Centre, where hatchlings are given the best possible chance to develop into mature adults, before being released into the wild on multiple islands of archipelago.
If you have any questions regarding our Ecuador tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
Too many wildlife highlights to specify!
Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge: Spectacled bears (mother and two cubs) along with three species of antpitta, cock of the rock lek, myriads of dazzling hummingbirds and numerous colourful forest birds especially tanagers and toucans (inc. plate-billed mountain toucan). Napo Wildlife Centre: Giant river otters fishing, two sloths, five scarlet macaws at the second clay lick, six species of monkey (including the golden-mantled tamarin), numerous forest birds (including vocal white-throated toucan and many-banded aracari from the canopy tower and blue-and-yellow macaw). Galapagos Islands: snorkelling with hammerhead sharks, rays, green turtles, sea-lions and penguins. Unbelievably tame birds, waved albatrosses, three species of booby, two species of frigate bird etc. Also, Galapagos hawk, Galapagos short-eared owl and confusing Darwin’s finches.