The island of Santa Cruz has the most to offer land-based visitors in terms of hotels, restaurants, shops—and Galapagos tortoises. Although tourists can go almost nowhere on their own—that is, without an authorized guide—El Chato

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The island of Santa Cruz has the most to offer land-based visitors in terms of hotels, restaurants, shops—and Galapagos tortoises. Although tourists can go almost nowhere on their own—that is, without an authorized guide—El Chato Farm is an exception, because it is not park property. El Chato is, however, natural habitat for the island's giant tortoises. After paying a small fee and donning high rubber boots for negotiating the mud, you can walk along the tortoise trails. It's likely you won't have to go far before a tortoise comes lumbering along.

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