Patagonia adventure trekking
Torres del Paine National Park and Ushuaia

This program allow the passengers to explore and discover the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. To do it we take advantage of our strategically located Full Camps in the Park's central points. We visit the Ottway Penguin Colony and cross the Strait of Magellan. We travel the fantastic natural environment of the Tierra del Fuego Island, and the picturesque Ushuaia, that names itself the world's southernmost city. We lodge in a typical Patagonian Mountain Refuge in the Tierra Mayor Valley, and we spend our last night in the Ushuaia City to discover her secrets and beauties. We walk the Tierra del Fuego National park and navigate the Beagle Channel where the waters from Atlantic and Pacific Ocean melt them

Season: October to April guaranteed departures every Friday from El Calafate

Starting /Ending city: El Calafate Airport / Ushuaia airport

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Itinerary: duration 9 days - 8 nights


Day 1: El Calafate airport - El Calafate
We receive you at El Calafate Airport from there you are transferred to El Calafate City, where at 7 pm the group meet by first time at the Hostal del Lago Libertador, at Del Libertador 587, El Calafate. You meet your guide, and you enjoy a dinner with you adventure partners while chatting on the program details for tomorrow .
Lodging: at Hostel Room with shared bathroom Alternatives optional charge: Inn Room double or single base with private bathroom
Meals includeds: Dinner

Day 2: El Calafate - Torres del Paine
We depart early in the morning (around 7 am) from El Calafate to Torres del Paine through a spectacular landscape of the Patagonia steppe. Choiques and flamingos are very common in this area. Almost 4 hours from starting our journey, we will be at the border crossing between Chile and Argentina called ¨Paso Cancha Carrera¨. We continue until reach the Torres del Paine National Park. UNESCO gave to this park the World Heritage status, due to its unique wildlife and magnificent scenery. We arrive to our camp at Camping Pehoe Full Camp after 6 hours of travel. Afternoon, we will visit several panoramic viewpoints of the Nordenskjöld Lake and the "Cuernos del Paine" (Paine Horns), to finally arrive to the Camping Pehoe Full Camp. Duration of the journey: 6 hs approx.
Lodging: in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch and dinner

Day 3: Las Torres - Ascensio river valley
We dedicate this day to one of the most spectacular and classical trekking in the park: the Torres Trail. We transfer after breakfast by bus to the trail start at Las Torres area. We cross a suspended bridge and remount the slopes of the Almirante Nieto Mount, bordering the Ascencio River. After one hour ascending we go into the Valley, and reach Chileno Refuge. From there the trail leads us through the forest, in the middle of unforgettable landscapes, to Las Torres base camp. There the climbers wait good weather conditions to climb Las Torres. We trek one hour more to reach the Las Torres Viewpoint, an amazing natural amphitheater at the bottom of the vertical granite towers that reach 2800 meters height. We return by the same way. It's a total 7-hour trek.
Lodging: in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch and dinner

Day 4: Pehoe Lake Navigation, Del Frances Valley
Early in the morning we cross sailing 45 minutes the Pehoe Lake embarking at puerto Pudeto and arriving at the Pehoe Refuge area. We walk from there until get the Del Frances Valley. It's a beautiful mountain valley descending from the middle of the massif toward the Nordenskjold Lake. Flanked by The Horns to the east and by the impressive Paine Grande (3050 meters/10006 ft) to the west. We ascend the valley until the upper viewpoints located in a natural amphitheater surrounded by some of needles and walls most wonderful of the massif: Cuernos, Espada, Mascara, Hoja, Aleta de Tiburon, Catedral, and Paine Grande. The forest and the suspended glaciers that cause continuous ice and snow fallings, give us a unique scenery to this walk. We descend the same trail and turn west rounding Skottberg Lake until arrive to our Camp for this night at Pehoe Refuge area. It's a total 7-hour trek.
Lodging: in Full Camp Pehoe Refuge area double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch and dinner

Day 5: Grey Glacier Viewpoints
Another unforgettable day dedicated to the Grey Glacier, impressive Glacier 300 square kilometers of surface (115 square miles), 25 kilometers long (16 miles). It overflows from the Continental Ice Field falling into Grey Lake. The Glacier produce enormous amount of blue icebergs that sail over the lake pushed by the wind toward the south, given the characteristic feature to this lake. The trail leads us to a wonderful viewpoint where we can appreciate the whole lake, the glacier and the mountains that emerge from the west of the Ice Field. Two more hours walking and we arrive to another viewpoint just in front of the Glacier. All the trek is develop between Andean bush and lengas forest, at the shadow of the ice blocks that drape the Paine Grande Mount. We walk this day about 7 hours. At the end of the day we sail again the Pehoe Lake to the south shore to return to our Full Camp at Camping Pehoe area.
Lodging: in Full Camp at Camping Pehoe area double base (area with sanitarium services)
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch and dinner


Day 6: Torres del Paine - Puerto Natales - Ottway Penguin Colony- Punta Arenas
We drive away Torres del Paine after breakfast, to Puerto Natales, when we arrive after 90 km/55 miles . There we have time to lunch freely and walk by this little town and its port. At 3 pm we continue traveling south to visit the Ottway Colony of Magellanic penguins. Finally we arrive to Punta Arenas around 8pm
Lodging: at Hostel Room with shared bathroom Alternatives: Inn Room double or single base with private bathroom
Included meals: breakfast

Day 7: Punta Arenas - Río Grande - Valle de Tierra Mayor
From Punta Arenas we depart early to First Narrow, to sail the Strait of Magellan by Ferry. On the other side another bus will be waiting for us to continue south into the Tierra del Fuego Island. After lunch at Rio Grande we continue to visit Fagnano Lake, and driving a mountain path in the De Los Andes Cordillera we arrive to our Mountain Refuge, located in the Tierra mayor Valley, around 6pm After get there we visit a close zone full of castors. We could appreciate the hue changes the castors are producing to this area.
Lodging: at Mountain Refuge with shared room and shared bathroom
Included meals: breakfast and dinner

Day 8: Ushuaia - Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego Navegación del Canal de Beagle
In the morning we trip to the Tierra del Fuego National Park, in the island corner that limit Argentina and Chile, where the Andes Cordillera goes under the sea, characteristic an spectacular landscape of this island. After having our Box Lunch we navigate the Beagle Channel. The Beagle Channel, in the south shore of the Tierra del Fuego Island, forms part of the border between Argentina and Chile. In addition to spectacular scenery, we should see many species of marine mammals and birds. We enjoy our last dinner in the most Austral City in the World.
Lodging: at Hostel Room with shared bathroom Alternatives: Inn Room double or single base with private bathroom
Included meals: breakfast, box lunch and dinner

Day 9: Ushuaia - Ushuaia airport
After breakfast we start a 3 hour low demanding trek by the "World's End Edge" of the Martial glacier, a spectacular trekking that pass over the edge rounding Ushuaia City and the Beagle Channel. You will get the panoramic views of the city of Ushuaia and its surroundings, the Beagle Channel, and the Chilean islands of Navarino. (3 hs approx). We return to Ushuaia when we have free time to get around the city, situated on the north shore of the Beagle Channel. Afternoon we transfer to the Ushuaia Airport where finish our services.
Included meals: breakfast


Included services: Bilingual Spanish-English guides during all the program's activities. Mountain Guides during the trekking activities. Pehoe Lake Navigation. Beagle Channel Navigation. Transfer El Calafate Airport - El Calafate - El Calafate - Torres del Paine - Puerto Natales - Punta Arenas - Rio Grande - Ushuaia- Ushuaia Airport. 8 breakfasts, 6 lunch boxes and 7 dinners. 3 nights at base Accommodation at Hostel Room or Alternative Accommodation or alternative (at extra charge) at Inn double or single base. 4 nights at Full Camp double base (area with sanitarium services) 1 night at Mountain Refuge with shared room and shared bathroom

Not included: Entrance ticket to Torres del Paine National Park Entrance ticket to Tierra del Fuego National Park Medical and Life Insurance Tips Air flight tickets and Airport fees and taxes Optional Excursion Holiday On Ice Services not detailed in the program.

Safety notice: Medical assistance is NOT included. However, trekking guides do carry basic first aid kit and VHF communication equipment in case any emergency situation arises. Health certificate, issued by a physician who certifies physical fitness is strongly recommended, especially for those with sedentary habits.


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