Plan Your Visit
Before You Come Aboard
Everything You Need to Know
The Galápagos is among the most carefully regulated places on Earth to enter, and among the simplest to reach, once you have all the details from our experts. Here is everything worth knowing before you sail
How to get to Galápagos
There is no way into the Galápagos except by air from mainland Ecuador. Every visitor, without exception, flies from Quito (UIO) or Guayaquil (GYE) to the islands. All Anakata voyages embark and disembark at San Cristóbal (SCY), so this is the airport you'll fly into and out of.
Key Information & FAQs
Where the archipelago sits, when to come, about us, life on board, arrivals & departures and sustainability.
Travel Essentials
The Galápagos is one of the most entry-regulated destinations in the world. Not for bureaucracy's sake — every requirement below exists because something was once getting onto these islands that shouldn't have been. Read this once, and let us handle most of it. What to Bring, What to Know, What the Islands Ask of You.
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