Once at the beach, you can snorkel ... Travelers visit this isolated strip of Santa Cruz's southern coastline for some quality face time with the Galapagos' marine turtles. If you visit between ...

Set at the center of the Galápagos archipelago, Santa Cruz Island serves as a central base for exploration. And skirting Santa Cruz's southern shoreline along Academy Bay is Puerto Ayora.

A stop on Santa Cruz Island is often the highlight of visits to the Galapagos because it is the place to see giant tortoises, both in the wild and in captivity. At the Charles Darwin Research Sta ...

Royal Palm is set on a vast, hilly 380-acre property up in the central highlands of Santa Cruz Island, where the weather ... where giant Galapagos tortoises roam. Surrounded by lush gardens ...