Camino Abierto offers different travel styles.
Upon them, our clients are able to offer a wide range of trips all throughout Argentina during all year round, to meet the different interests and activities your clients are looking for.
We offer group departures with a number of guaranteed scheduled dates and individual departures on daily basis.
All our products can be offered for private groups at any requested date.
Besides these tours, we design and operate tailor made tours. Within our tailor made trips you can find Birdwatching trips, Botanic tours, Natural History trips, horse riding and MTB circuits.
Designed to know and discover the very best that each region has to offer. Mountains and glaciers in Andean Patagonia; Marine Wildlife in Peninsula Valdes and the Atlantic Coast; landscapes and original cultures of South America in the North of Argentina; Tango in Buenos Aires and wine production in the area of Mendoza; waterfalls and wetlands in Iguazú and the North East.
Within our Discovery trips, our Nature Trips allow us to know the very best of Argentina’s natural sceneries. Locations which given their geomorphology, ecosystem and diversity of flora and fauna are considered Natural Protected Areas; while our Cultural Trips allow us to discover some specific cultural aspect of Argentina: the original Indian cultures in the North, the Tango culture in Buenos Aires or the wine production process in Mendoza.
Accommodations are always in hosterias (it does not features camps)
No technical or physical requirement. Passengers should be willing to walk an average of 4 to 5 hours per day during the hiking activities.
In some of the group departures there are incoming services and guides during the activities; and in some other group departures there is a tour leader dedicated full time to the group.
Discovery trips can be offered in group or individual departures
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Camino Abierto provides the chance to upgrade the difficulty for those private groups that are keen on doing more intense activities
These tours are focused on the spectacular geomorphologic and climatic processes that created and shaped the Andes of Southern Patagonia; and the natural life that it holds.
From its mythic mountain massifs, Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre in Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park, to Torres del Paine in Chile’s Paine National Park, we will also visit the huge glaciers calving down from the Continental Ice Field (3rd glacier area of the World after Antarctica and Greenland) to both sides of the mountains: the great lakes in the Argentinean side and the Pacific fjords in the Chilean one.
Hikes across the different environments such as the southern beech forest and the steppe, inhabited by guanacos (lama relatives), pumas, huemules (local endangered deer), the majestic condor and a variety of birds and flowers.
These trips will definitely give you a spectacular glance of Southern Andean Patagonia.
Our Cultural Trips allow us to discover some specific cultural aspect of Argentina: the original Indian cultures in the North, the Tango culture in Buenos Aires or the wine production process in Mendoza.
Our Cultural Trips have no physical demand.
We lodge in comfortable accommodations where we look for personalized attention more than luxury.
The adventure tours combine different kind of accommodations allowing this way to explore more distant areas of the country.
Some nights are spent in Hostels or Hosterias while other nights are spent in our Full camps and Mountain refugees.
The physical difficulty of the adventure tours is low to intermediate. The passengers should be willing to walk an average of 6 to 7 hours per day during the trekking activities and also willing to camp during some nights.
In some of the group departures there are incoming services and guides during the activities; and in some other group departures there is a tour leader dedicated full time to the group.
Trekking activities are led by mountain guides or local inhabitants of the area (according to the destination).
Adventure Tours can be offered in group or individual departures.
These tours have more demanding activities and the accommodations and we spend more nights camping in order to explore more distant areas of the country.
Some nights are spent in Hostels or Hosterias, simple lodgings, while others are spent in our Full camps or in Mountain refugees.
In some of the group departures there are incoming services and guides during the activities; and in some other group departures there is a tour leader dedicated full time to the group.
The trekking activities are led by mountain guides or local inhabitants of the area (according to the destination)
The level of difficulty is intermediate. Passengers need to be in adequate physical condition. It is not required prior technical experience.
We usually carry all the general equipment and wherever is possible we carry also the passengers personal belongings, including their sleeping bag and mattress. In certain areas or in certain section of specific programs, passengers are requested to carry their own personal belongings, including sleeping bag and mattress.
We walk an average of 6 or 7 hours a day, 9 hours in specific days, at a moderate pace and with all the necessary stops for rest, snacks or photos. The trek includes some steady up hills and down hills that can be steeper by sections.
Previous experience walking outdoors and camping is advisable as we use a lot our Full Camps.
Our Expeditions are challenging trekking programs across beautiful wild areas; most of them almost unvisited which required great effort from the passenger.
In all the Expeditions, we carry the general equipment (tents, food and fuel, first aid kit, and what ever is necessary and is not of personal use). Passengers are expected to carry their own personal equipment, including sleeping bag and mattress.
When you buy these Expeditions for a private group under your own brand name, out of our regular departures, you can hire a porter service, to carry up to 8 kg of the personal equipment of each passenger. In all the Expeditions, Camino Abierto carries the general equipment (tents, food and fuel, first aid kit, and what ever is necessary and is not of personal use).
Passengers are expected to carry their own personal equipment, including sleeping bag and mattress.
Group treks led by a mountain guide.
Previous experience in trekking and expeditions, as well as previous experience camping in the wild, is advisable, because most of the days of these programs we camp expedition style.
In these tours camps are use intensively.
To get the most out of our Expeditions you need to be in a good and fit condition.