
ECUADOR - Galapagos Islands
San Cristobal island
San Cristóbal (Chatham) is the easternmost island in the Galápagos archipelago, as well as one of the oldest geologically. You might arrive at the airport here. The island Island is composed of three or four fused volcanoes, all extinct. It is home to the oldest permanent settlement of the islands and is the island where Darwin first went ashore in 1835. A penal colony was built on San Cristóbal Island in 1880 for prisoners from mainland Ecuador. This later turned into a military base for Ecuador and export center for the island's products including sugar, coffee, cassava, cattle, fish and lime.
BEST TIME to VISIT ECUADOR and GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to San Cristobal island
Galapagos : April to December

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Giant Galapagos tortoise

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby (blue beak and red feet)

San Cristobal Island - Frigatebirds

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Frigatebirds

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Frigatebirds

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Frigatebirds

San Cristobal Island - Sea lion puppy

San Cristobal Island - juvenile swallow-tailed gull

San Cristobal Island - sea lion puppy

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Nazca booby

San Cristobal Island - juvenile swallow-tailed gull

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Nazca boobies

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo

San Cristobal Island - Young girl and a sea lion

San Cristobal Island - Expedition ship and lava coasline

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - marina

San Cristobal Island - beautiful sandy beach

San Cristobal Island - Sea landscape

San Cristobal Island - Sandy beach

San Cristobal Island - Sandy beach

San Cristobal Island - Figatebirds

San Cristobal Island - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Figatebirds

San Cristobal Island - curious sea lion puppy

San Cristobal Island - sea lion puppy climbing Mom

San Cristobal Island - sea lion puppy climbing Mom

San Cristobal Island - sea lion puppy finally satisfied its curiosity

San Cristobal Island - zodiacs ready to bring tourists to the islets

San Cristobal Island - landscape

San Cristobal Island - landscape - those islets are perfect to admire wildlife : birds, sea lions, crabs..

San Cristobal Island - landscape

San Cristobal Island - sea lions

San Cristobal Island - marine iguanas on the beach

San Cristobal Island - sea lions

San Cristobal Island - brown pelican

San Cristobal Island - Sanderling birds

San Cristobal Island - sea lions

San Cristobal Island - walking trail

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - Dedicated stairs for sea lions in the harbor

San Cristobal Island - Tortoise - Bon appetit

San Cristobal Island - colorful flower

San Cristobal Island - coffee tree

San Cristobal Island - Gardenia flower

San Cristobal Island - cactus

San Cristobal Island - walking trail

San Cristobal Island - Darwin statue - Ecuadorian government might have done a better one for such great man

San Cristobal Island - Head of Darwi statue with a mocking bird

San Cristobal Island - Cotton tree red flower

San Cristobal Island - Colorful lichen on a tree

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Yellow Warbler

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Sally lightfoot crabs

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Yellow Warbler

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Finch

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Mockingbird

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Blue-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Red-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Punta Pitt - Blue-Footed booby

San Cristobal Island - Sandy beach and cruise ship

San Cristobal Island - landscape with lava beach

San Cristobal Island - sea lion

San Cristobal Island - Lava gull on the beach

San Cristobal Island - Surfing

San Cristobal Island - Great Frigatebird

San Cristobal Island - juvenile swallow-tailed gull

San Cristobal Island - juvenile swallow-tailed gulls

San Cristobal Island - young lava gull

San Cristobal Island - Brown pelican

San Cristobal Island - two marina iguanas - males fighting

San Cristobal Island - Sea lions

San Cristobal Island - Sea lions

San Cristobal Island - Sea lions

San Cristobal Island - Blue-footed booby

San Cristobal Island - trail

San Cristobal Island - sea lions on the trail

San Cristobal Island - sea landscape with a ship

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - Sea lions in the harbour

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - taxis

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - Sea lion swiming in the harbour

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - harbour

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - sea lions

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - sea lions

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - Restaurant

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - colorful restaurant

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - hotel

San Cristobal Island - Puerto Baquerizo - restaurant