The cruise yacht - considered mid-size among the 100 or so 12- to 100-passenger vessels cruising the region - provides an effortless means of experiencing the menagerie of reptiles, birds and marine mammals the Ecuadorian hotspot is famous for. Metropolitan Touring's 48-passenger La Pinta is a year-round Galapagos-based island hopper that was significantly refurbished at the tail-end of 2019.
