IWW - Winter at The Glaciers

(ID 1)

Day 1 El Calafate airport – El Calafate

We welcome you at Calafate airport and transfer to town to check in at your accommodation. You get the rest of the day to enjoy the town.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: None

(ID 96)

Day 2 El Calafate – El Chaltén

After breakfast we take our bus for the 220 km drive to El Chaltén, a small and picturesque village at the foot of Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre massif. We make a stop half way to enjoy local pastries and hot coffee. Once in Chaltén, we have the afternoon at leisure to explore the village.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

(ID 108)

Day 3 Fitz Roy – Laguna de los TreS

Early in the morning, after breakfast, we take the bus upon Hosteria El Pilar where we start hiking to see one of the most spectaculars viewpoints of the National Park: Laguna de los Tres, with its zephyr blue color, lies at the foot of the massif, offering full close up views of Fitz Roy massif spires and glaciers. Each wall raises something from 600 to 1500 mts above the surrounding glaciers. Fitz Roy, with its 3405 mts above sea level, is considered the “King of Patagonia” and also considered one of the three most beautiful mountains on Earth. In the late afternoon, we hike back to our hotel.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

(ID 122)

Day 4 El Chaltén - Cerro Torre trail

We visit today the Torre valley. This valley starts as a glacier valley in the Laguna Torre reaching town as a fluvial valley. Is shorter and with less gain of altitude than Fitz Roy trail. We get to a first viewpoint of the glacier part of the valley after a first hour of walking. Depending on conditions, we will go on to reach the lagoon, natural viewpoint for the group of ice-mushroom-covered spires of Cerro Torre massif. Its blue colour and dimensions are breathtaking. We hike back to El Chaltén in late afternoon.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch

(ID 110)

Day 5 El Chalten – El Calafate

After breakfast we take our bus to El Calafate. When we arrive we have the entire day to visit the city or doing any of the optional excursions.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

(ID 11)

Day 6 El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier

We dedicate this day to one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This ice field- type glacier flows down from the Patagonian Icefield, a big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometers is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favorable local conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. The roar of the chunks of ice falling inside the glacier or from the glacier into the lake, the frequent collapse of the front seracs into the turquoise water, makes out of this day a very special and unique experience.

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

(ID 4)

Day 7 El Calafate - Day at leisure

This day is free, with the possibility to choose between the optional proposals that the city of the Calafate offers

Lodging: Lodge

Provided meals: Breakfast

Contact your sales representative for excursions available.

(ID 21)

Day 8 El Calafate - El Calafate airport

After breakfast we transfer to El Calafate airport where our services ends.

Lodging: None

Provided meals: Breakfast