The tour combines the very best of The Chilean Patagonia with the comfort of our fine selection of lodges in the area. We do not use Full Camps in this tour.
The design of the program includes some moderate treks, which are performed at a slow pace with all the necessary stops, meaning you do not need to be really fit to take these trips
Day 1 El Calafate airport – El Calafate
We welcome you at El Calafate airport and transfer to town, where we check in at our lodge. The rest of the day will be free for us to enjoy the town. Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: none
Day 2 El Calafate – Torres del Paine
We leave early in the morning from El Calafate in our way to Torres del Paine National Park. The road is a typical Patagonian steppe road. There are many chances to see lesser rheas and flamingos during the trip. In about 4 hours we cross into Chile across Cancha Carrera international border point. A couple of hours later we enter Paine, which holds the UNESCO World Heritage status. During this last portion of our drive, the Paine Massif will be visible, weather permitting. We then follow the spectacular interior road of the National Park all the way to our hosteria. We will make all the necessary stops for pictures of the mountains and fauna of the Park, arriving to our hosteria by late afternoon. Lodging at Hosteria or Inn , double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinnerr
Day 3 Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales
We visit some of the most spectaculars viewpoints of this National Park. In the morning we visit Salto Grande, an impressive waterfall just where river Paine enters lake Pehoe . From there a low difficult trail lead us to the shores of lake Nordenskjöld . From here we see the whole Paine massif from south: French Valley in the centre of the picture, flanked by Paine Grande (3050 mts above sea level) with its impressive hanging glaciers on one side and the Paine Horns, featuring their unique geological formations, on the other side. In the afternoon, we visit the west end of the Park, the lake Grey area. An easy and beautiful walk along its south shore, lead us to a rocky promontory from where we see the glacier calving down in the lake from the Ice Field in the far side of the lake. In the spring and summer the shore is covered by the icebergs pushed by the wind to this side of the lake.
In the late afternoon, we leave the Park and travel to Puerto Natales (2 hs), a picturesque fishermen town in the shores of the Last Hope Sound . Lodging at Hosteria or Inn , double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch
Day 4 Puerto Natales - Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers
This morning by 8 we got on board for our boat trip along the “Last Hope” Sound. In our way to glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano, we are going to come inside one of the most remote and virgin areas of Southern Patagonia: the Bernardo O‘ Higgins National Park . During our trip we are going to visit Cerro Balmaceda (south end of the Patagonian Ice Field) the huge glaciers coming down towards the sea and a wide variety of flowers. We make a short walk in the far end of the Sound. We'll be back around 18 hours so we can have enough time to enjoy the city in the evening. Lodging at Hosteria or Inn , double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 5 Puerto Natales - Calafate
After breakfast, we start our trip back to El Calafate where we'll have the rest of the evening free to enjoy the town. Lodging at Hosteria or Inn , double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 6 El Calafate airport
After breakfast we take our transfer to El Calafate airport where our services end.
Meals we provide: breakfast.
