On the first afternoon of our first day in Isabela, my friend and I signed up for a joint tour (through our hotel - Iguana Crossing) of Las Tintoreras. We ended up with just one other couple and a very sweet female guide. It was a great afternoon.We were brought to the port and then taxied around the port area looking for local wildlife - just in the first 5 minutes on the boat we saw penguins, sea lions, marine iguanas, sting rays, brown pelicans and blue footed boobies. Amazing! Our first of the 2 stops was to an area where marine iguanas nest and breed. The boat dropped us off at the dock of a rocky island where a sea lion was basking on a bench and then off we went for our walk through a strange moon-scape-like terrain to see the marine iguanas. They were EVERYWHERE! Big, small, young, old - just all over the place. It was wonderful to be able to be so close to them in their natural habitat. You walk along a well-marked path (though there is no shade so be sure to cover up or wear a lot of SPF) that lasts perhaps 1km. Then toward the end you are near an inlet that acts like a tidal pool in which we saw sharks, baby sea lions (actually swimming together), sea turtles and frigates flying overhead. A tremendous experience.Back to the boat which then taxis to a nearby area where you can go snorkeling around the coast of another small island. We saw two smallish sea turtles, plenty of colorful fish and sea plant life as well as penguins on the shore. For a 3 hour total tour, it was well worth it. Highly recommended and close to town so you aren't spending all day getting to/from on a boat.
This is also called the bay tour. You drive around in a boat stopping to the usual spots where the penguins and birds usually are. We saw them every day in the same spots. You land in Tintoreras and the highlights are the number of water iguanas clumped together, and a sea lion colony with a massive male/alpha that shows up sometimes. The snorkeling is not very special -- unless you encounter swimming penguins, marine iguanas and sea lions. In our trip we briefly saw a sea lion up close. The turtles were in their usual spots and the guide knew where to look for them. I felt you could do this tour on your own and if you had limited time in Isabela - you can skip this and do Los Tuneles or even better - Sierra Negra hike.
Definitely worth the trip to Las Tintoreras. We were a little spoiled because we went to Kicker Rock first. However, we saw more sea turtles here than anywhere else and were able to get super close to them. Water was very clear which gave us the opportunity to sea rays, sea lions, lots of fish and other creatures I cannot name. Definitely reccomend!
For us everything was great the guide mrs Landazury very knowledgeable and with good humour snorkeling was good too she waited for each od us be ready and show es us marine turtles, rays and a lot of other beautifull fish
我们在伊萨贝拉度过了我们的第一天。这让我们有一个很好的机会参观一下海洋生物——从躺在海滩上的海狮到鲨鱼和蜥蜴。到酒店的交通很方便,路上还有蜥蜴穿过。我们的导游奥马尔人非常好,而且知识丰富。
Hire snorkel equipment from town and just swim across the bay and snorkel around the island. Don't bother paying for a tour to go onto the island, it's just a boring rock and all the good stuff is underwater. You don't need a guide if you're not going on the land.That being said... It does get cold, there are some currents depending on where you go and the tide, so be a confident swimmer.We saw a little bit of everything, it was a great adventure.
All of it, the guides, the travelers, tHe lunch, the site land and water, the snorkeling, the temperature...
此旅程是一次愉快的惊喜。你走在黑色熔岩形成并有黑色海洋鬣蜥爬动的岛屿。在岛上漫步期间导游会向你展示许多地貌,鬣蜥的巢穴,让你观看它们,它们的自然栖息地。步道在一个有宝贝海狮和熔岩鹭的小沙滩结束,然后当潮水涌来一条鲨鱼出现时我们又追踪其踪迹直达鲨鱼馆。然后我们被带到了附近有一些热带鱼,龟,数条鲨鱼和斑点鹰的景点潜泳。回码头的路上,我们经过了有鲣鸟和两个小企鹅筑巢的岩石。
You go on a harbor cruise to see penguins, sea lions, blue-footed boobies and sea iguanas. You go snorkeling from the boat. You walk amongst some really weird lava formations. It is a fine way to spend a morning.
导游知识渊博,所以给我们介绍了很多知识。我们潜水,在海底和乌龟面对面,海底有很多沙丁鱼,刺鲅,黄貂鱼和白鳍鲨。每人25元,超级划算。