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Celebrating an anniversary gives you the perfect chance to look up different ideas and find the perfect one. Giving you quality time with your loved one and the opportunity to experience a one-in-a-lifetime moment you’ll remember forever. We have compiled a list of ideas for your next anniversary that will make it the best yet.
It’s essential to make your anniversary memorable every year and show your partner how much you love them. Fortunately, there are endless ways to celebrate this day and create new memories that will last a lifetime. From a romantic weekend getaway to watching the sunset, we have rounded up ten of the most romantic anniversary ideas to help you plan the perfect celebration for your partner.
A Romantic Vacation
Thinking of excellent anniversary ideas, take your partner on a romantic getaway to a place you have always wanted to visit. It could be a lodge in the Cloudforest or a luxury hotel by the beach. Spending quality time together in a new place will add a unique touch to your anniversary celebration.
Taking a trip is a great idea to get away and enjoy some one-on-one time with your partner. What better place to celebrate your honeymoon than visiting the Galapagos Islands? The Finch Bay Hotel is perfect if you want to enjoy a romantic anniversary vacation filled with adventure and relaxation, and is ideal for a Galapagos honeymoon.
Stargazing
Great anniversary ideas include planning a stargazing night and heading to an observatory, open field, or beach. Pack some blankets, hot cocoa, and snacks, and watch the stars twinkle in the night sky. It’s a peaceful and romantic way to spend an evening together. In the Finch Bay Hotel, you can sit on the sand in the Playa de los Alemanes and watch the stars.
Romantic Dinner
Plan a romantic dinner at a fancy restaurant or prepare a thoughtful, intimate dinner at home. You can create a menu of your favorite dishes and pair it with a bottle of wine. It’s a great way to turn up the romance and enjoy delicious food together. In our restaurant, we offer excellent options made from locally scoured ingredients. But apart from that, we can ensure you have the perfect setting for your romantic dinner.
Couple’s Spa Day
Book a couple’s spa day to pamper yourselves and relax. Counts with a variety of treatments for maximum relaxation and healing. From massages, facials, and hot tubs, we are making it a perfect way to spend a romantic day together. Our Finch Bay spa is in a secluded location on Santa Cruz Island, with direct access to the beach, creating the perfect space to disconnect.
Take a Stroll Through the Streets
One of the most romantic things you can do is walk through the streets and enjoy each other’s company. Allowing you the chance to get to know new places or go to one of your favorite spots. Take your stroll in the evening so you can enjoy the sunset. Always include a way to enjoy each other’s company in your anniversary ideas.
Create a Special Cocktail
Do you both like to create and drink cocktails or mocktails? Create a unique cocktail that reflects both of you. Make your drink with your champagne or liquor of choice in the mix. Create your blend based on the fruits or flavors each of you loves. The result is a fun, intimate, and delicious anniversary signature drink.
Have a Romantic Picnic
Prepare a delicious spread of your favorite food and drinks, and head for a romantic picnic in a scenic spot. Add some candles and a bottle of wine to set the mood. Great anniversary ideas can be simple but romantic, giving you the perfect moment with your partner.
Watch the Sunset
Find a beautiful spot to watch the sunset together on the beach or a terrace while having dinner. Enjoy the magic of nature and each other’s company as the sun sets. It’s a perfect way to end the day.
Listen to Live Music
Music is a universal language of love, and what better way to celebrate your anniversary than with some live music? Find a local concert or street musician, and let the music fill your hearts and souls. You are dancing, laughing, and making beautiful memories.
Go On an Adventure Together
Great anniversary ideas can include an adventure; it is a fantastic way to strengthen your bond and create memories that will last a lifetime. Whether hiking or kayaking, find an activity you enjoy and go on an adventure together. Try something new and experience the adrenaline rush of doing something daring.
Anniversary Ideas to Show Your Love
Anniversaries are an opportunity to celebrate your love, commitment, and the memories you have created together. With these ten romantic anniversary ideas, you can make this special moment unforgettable for your partner. It’s not how much you spend but the effort and thought you put into it that counts. Remember, the most memorable anniversary celebrations are the ones that are personal and heartfelt and demonstrate how much you care for your partner.
When you live and work in a natural paradise such as the Galapagos Islands, there are many things to consider. But when you work at the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel – one of the world’s leading GREEN hotels – you know things are done differently. We strive to be a leading example of sustainability and environmentally-friendly practices not only for the people of the Galapagos, but for our guests as well. This month, we went deeper into what sustainable Galapagos food ought to be like and even welcomed the visit of a very interesting guest. Read on to learn more about what’s cooking at the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel!
Investigation & Sustainable Galapagos Food
Our team at the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel dedicates itself to numerous different projects in order to protect the amazing environment of the islands. One of these is our sustainable Galapagos food project, which sees us continuously investigating the diversity of local produce and ways of encouraging farmers to grow more sustainably. At the Finch Bay, we try to buy local as much as possible in order to lower our environmental footprint. We also send our teams out to investigate the fruits and vegetables that are grown on the inhabited islands. We even talk to fishermen and learn about their fishing techniques, along with the species of fish, crustaceans and/or mollusks that they catch. Once we’ve gathered all this knowledge, we bring it back to our kitchen and put it all into our creative efforts that help develop our menu that represents the best of Galapagos food and Ecuadorian cuisine. We know that we can only grow as a restaurant and a company so long as our community grows with us.
As part of our ongoing efforts to leave less of a carbon footprint, we have even created our own organic vegetable garden. The “Chakrita,” as we call it, is home to a varied selection of flowers and herbs that we use in all our recipes, either as garnish or the main ingredients. To have all these amazing and fresh greens at our disposal allows us to develop our creativity, which is a crucial component in allowing our “crazy” chef minds to continuously grow.
During my time here, I have seen a growing interest and curiosity from our guests, cooks, and chefs, about all things organic and local, especially when they come directly from the islands. It’s something we look forward to working on constantly!
A Visit From a Gastronomic Icon
Last month we were fortunate enough to receive a visit from famous chef Juan Luis Fernandez and his girlfriend Dolce Nida, owners of the restaurant “LÚ Cocina y Alma” in Jerez, Spain. They stayed at the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel, during which time they cooked with us, experimenting with our ingredients and updating our understanding of cooking techniques. Juan Luis, also known as JuanLu, spent several years working at the famous “Aponiente” restaurant (3 Michelin stars), where he himself learned the latest gastronomical techniques for preparing seafood in the best way possible.
After spending a day looking for the best ingredients and sharing our expertise with JuanLu and Dolce, we were delighted to share our kitchen with them. They couldn’t have been more generous! They taught us about the techniques they use at their restaurant, and we even got to learn about new cooking methods that we can apply to our own recipes and products here at Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel!
We Are All Cooks
I love how the world of food and cooking has no frontiers or barriers. In life, we are all cooks! However, when you are a chef, and so long as you cook with passion, it doesn’t matter where you are – you always have to give it your best! At the Finch Bay, we give each meal and plate our best, every single day, so that our friends and guests learn and fall in love with our products, our country, our people and our cuisine.
My team and I, we never get bored: We are always improving and looking forward to coming up with new and magnificent flavors, using all the wonderful natural ingredients that the Galapagos Islands has to offer us.
Join us on our journey! We love to cook, we live to cook and we cook to live!
Stargazing in the Galapagos! Think about this for a second. Few things make us marvel at our own existence more than staring into the night sky. The vastness that surrounds us reminds us of just how small we are, helping us appreciate the planet we live in a little more. However, when we live in the city, the night sky tends to go unnoticed. More often than not, our hectic lifestyles keep us from remembering to look up. We jump from one activity to the other, from one meeting to the next, and by the time we get home, we are too tired to even consider admiring the beauty of the stars that linger overhead. Should we ever actually manage to look up and discover a few twinkling lights trying to catch our attention, we’ll soon realize that in the city at least, they are hard to perceive. The artificial lights coming from urban areas are often too strong and too many to truly appreciate the stars.
Stargazing in the Galapagos! Observe the Stars of Two Hemispheres in One Place!
When we finally leave the city, one of the first things that catch our attention is the brightness of an unpolluted night sky! Where we choose to admire the night sky from greatly affects our experience: the clearer the starscape, the more engaged our senses are, the more relaxed we are, the less we think about time, and the better we even feel sometimes. Did you know that, when you observe the sky from the equator, you have the rare opportunity of discovering the stars that are seen in both hemispheres? You might recognize the Big Dipper, but have you ever admired the Southern Cross? Better yet: have you ever seen them both at the same exact time? It’s something that can only happen in Ecuador! And where can we reconnect with the greatness of the universe again, one star at a time? In the Galapagos Islands, of course! Where life, time and space remain virtually untouched! Visit Santa Cruz island’s only beach-front hotel and discover it for yourself!
Where to stay in Galapagos?
While the Galapagos Islands offer plenty of accommodation options on both Santa Cruz and Isabela Islands, there’s truly no better option than the Finch Bay Hotel. This hotel in Galapagos is the only one with sustainability practices both in its operation and cuisine. It is also the only one with a private pool and direct access to a secluded beach. This makes it a perfect option when visiting Galapagos with kids. Enjoy this and many other perks in the best hotel in Galapagos, selected by TripAdvisor. Check out our rooms and suites!
Fall in love with the night sky at Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel
The Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel is located in front of Playa de Los Alemanes, one of the only beaches in the town of Puerto Ayora, and is accessible via a very short panga ride and a 10-minute walk. Even though the Finch Bay Galapagos Hotel is located in the archipelago’s most populated town, it has the advantage of being situated in its least populated neighborhood across the bay – Punta Estrada. Surrounded by mangroves, marshes, frankincense trees and a few houses mostly owned by European families, light pollution in this area is almost non-existent, and the night sky is seen from the Finch Bay practically a stand-alone top feature of the hotel itself. If you are into stargazing, or you simply like to admire the beauty of an immaculate starry night, then the Finch Bay is the place for you.
If you want to make sure you locate the sky’s most important stars, planets, and constellations, then we also recommend that you download some apps to help you with this task. We recommend Star Chart, SkyView Free or Night Sky Lite (they are all free!). At the Finch Bay, there’s all Wi-Fi so you will have absolutely no problem using them! Talk to our Expedition Leader before sundown so that he can set up Finch Bay’s telescope – it’s very easy to use and you will be able to observe some amazing things! If it’s a moonlit night and the stars are less visible, then you should definitely take a peek at the moon’s craters and soak in its beautiful light! Because you are on the equator, on certain nights when the moon is at its zenith, you will find it casts no shadow!
The night sky is seen from Finch Bay So sit back, order one of Finch’s signature cocktails and be blown away by the beauty and greatness of a starry Galapagos night!
Be enchanted by the Galapagos Islands