11 Days – 10 Nights Los Glaciares National Park Torres del Paine National Park
Bernardo O´Higgins National Park
An excellent balance between the outdoor activities and the comfort to discover with this trip, the bests highlights and the most important mountains of the Patagonia.
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. In the evening we meet our tour leader, details of the program sharing our first dinner with our fellow travellers.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Dinner
Day 2: El Chaltén - Cerro Torre trail After breakfast, we take our bus towards the picturesque village of El Chaltén, at the foot of Fitz Roy. We drive 118,06 mi (190 km) across the Patagonian steppe and around lakes Argentino and Viedma. Upon arrival, we go hiking in the Cerro Torre trail, reaching the first viewpoint of the Torre valley, from where the Cerro Torre group and valley is entirely visible. For those willing to walk further, our mountain guide will lead you to Laguna Torre, about 9 km away from El Chaltén town. The hiking trail goes through a glacial origin valley. The lagoon features the Torre glacier calving in the far side, and the Cerro Torre group & spires rising at the background. 3 hs hiking round trip to the first viewpoint. 6 hs hiking the round trip to the Torre lagoon.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinner
Day 3: Fitz Roy trail - Laguna Capri Fitz Roy hiking trail climbs gently on the slopes of Cerro Rosado and along the “Chorrillo del Salto” valley, a beautiful Andes mountain stream with rapids and waterfalls. Our destination is Laguna Capri, a beautiful lagoon in the Andean forest with full views on the Fitz Roy spires and glaciers. For those enthusiast hikers, there is an option to continue hiking to Rio Blanco (cliembers’ basecamp) and to Laguna de los Tres, at the end of hiking trail and one of the highlights of the Los Glaciares National Park. The sights of the Fitz Roy group spires and glaciers from here are breathtaking. 2 hs hiking from El Chaltén town to Laguna Capri, 1 more hour hiking to Rio Blanco and 1 hour of steep climb to Laguna de los Tres. We hike back to Chaltén along the same trail.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinner
Day 4: Loma del Pliegue Tumbado Loma del Pliegue Tumbado is 1500 mts mountain, southward of Cerro Torre valley, offering some of the best views over the different group of mountains, glaciers and lakes that features the area. From the lower terraces to the summit, you can get spectacular views of cerros Fitz Roy and Torre and the spectacular glacier valley in between both. From the summit the bonus is the sight of Paso del Viento and some of the mountain spires which stick out from the Patagonian Icefield. According to the group fitness, we choose the lower terraces or try the summit, a long but gentle climb on scree. The lower part of the mountain is covered by Andean shrubland and forest.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast, box lunch and dinner
Day 5: From El Chaltén to El Calafate Morning at leisure or you may take some optional excursion, as the boat trip & glacier walk in lake and glacier Viedma or the visit to Lago del Desierto.
In late afternoon we take our bus to El Calafate, 220 km away, a 4 hs trip.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 6: El Calafate - Perito Moreno glacier This day we will visit one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This is one of a few glaciers in the world with ice field- type which flows down from the Patagonian Icefield. The wide ice sheet which with its 22.000 square kilometres is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Due to unusual favourable local wheather conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world which shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the Moreno glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. A beautiful, short hiking trail, will lead us from the shores of the Argentino lake to the upper viewpoints. The roar of the of ice blocks breaking inside the glacier or falling 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. We will drive 80 km (1 and a half hour) for the round trip to the glacier across the steppe, having the opportunity to watch a wide variety of Patagonian birds.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 7: El Calafate – Torres del Paine We leave early in the morning from El Calafate on 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 road trip. In about 4 hours we cross into Chile across Cancha Carrera international border pass. 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 Paine Towers National Park all the way to our hosteria. We will make all the necessary stops for taking 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 dinner
Day 8: Torres Del Paine – Puerto Natales We visit some of the most spectaculars viewpoints of this Paine National Park. In the morning we visit Salto Grande, an impressive waterfall just where river Paine enters lake Pehoe. From there an easy hiking trail lead us to the shores of lake Nordenskjöld. From here we see the whole Paine massif from south face: 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 Paine towers National 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 9: Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers At 8 am in the morning we got on board for our boat trip through the South Pacific fiords along the “Last Hope” Sound. In our way to glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano, we get inside one of the most remote and pristine areas of Southern Patagonia: the Bernardo O‘ Higgins National Park . During our boat 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 to the far end of the Sound. We'll be back around 6 pm so we can have enough time to enjoy the Puerto Natales town in the evening.
Lodging at Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom.
Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 10: Puerto Natales - Calafate After breakfast, we start our trip back to El Calafate where we will 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 11: El Calafate airport After breakfast we take our transfer to El Calafate airport where our services end.
Meals we provide: breakfast.
Services Details
Included
Meals
Meals included in the program are detailed in the following chart.:
Lodging We offer the “Discovery Patagonia” in two different type of accommodations.:
A) INN Double Base with Private Bathroom.
Not Included
NOTES:
Eco-Family holds the right of changing the itinerary or cancel any of the activities when any natural cause (or any other cause of any type) justifies it in order to look after the group safety.
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