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In this program you will travel the best landscapes of the Chilean Patagonia. You will know Punta Arenas, the Balmaceda and Serrano glacier and Torres del Paine National Park, declared a national biosphere reserve.
Day 1: Arrival in Punta Arenas
Transfer: Airport Hotel in Punta Arenas
Reception at Punta Arenas airport. Transfer to Hotel, in the afternoon City tour touring the city of Punta Arenas and its main attractions, including the Sitio Nao Victoria Museum at sunset we will return to the hotel.
Day 2: Punta Arenas - Puerto Natales
Transfer: Hotel Bus station in Punta Arenas
Transfer: Bus station Hotel in Puerto Natales
Day 3: Torres del Paine National Park - Cueva del Milodón Natural Monument - Puerto Natales - Pehoé Lake - Grey Glacier
Full day at Torres del Paine National Park
- Departure: 07:00
- Duration: 10 hours
- Includes: Boxlunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in Puerto Natales
Come and visit the Torres del Paine National Park that was declared Biosphere Reserve and is considered one of the most attractive park in South America. It is characterized by its nature and by the famous Cuernos del Paine.
Departure from your hotel at 7:00 am approximately with destination to Torres del Paine National Park. Our first destination is the Milodon cave where in 1895 were found remains of prehistoric animals. Here is the history of the first animals and humans who came to this place.
Then we will go to Cerro Castillo to make a little break where you can enjoy the services of snack, cafes and souvenir shops. We will continue our journey to the Torres del Paine National Park, where the first natural scenes that we will appreciate are Sarmiento Lake viewpoint, the Torres del Paine, Cuernos del Paine and the hill Almirante Nieto.Theanimals that you can see are the guanaco, Rhea and condor.
Inside of the Park you will see the Pehoé and Nordenskjöld lake, waterfalls and mountains covered of ice. Then you have to walk 15 minutes to see the jump large, that is an impressive flow of water that falls through a waterfall of 10 meters from Nordenskold to Pehoe lake.
Then we can eat our snack. Later we will walk on the banks of the Grey lake, where it is possible to see the icebergs and the famous Grey glacier. Depending on tourists, return can be made along the same path, or by the new road and drop them off at your accommodation.
17:00 hours: we will be back in your hotel.
- PhysicalVery low
- CulturalMedium
- NatureVery high
Day 4: Puerto Natales
Bike city tour through Puerto Natales
- Departure: 10:00
- Duration: 3 hours
- Includes: Boxlunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Main square in Puerto Natales
Come visit Puerto Natales by bike and meet the most attractive corners of one of the most touristic cities of Chilean Patagonia.
10:00: We gather in Arturo Pratt Square to deliver the bicycles.
During the tour, we will meet various monuments, streets and avenues of Puerto Natales.
We are going to visit theseafront, the main lookout points of the city, pioneer houses, the artisan village Ether Aike, the square of the four villages, Braun Blanchard y Mural dock, and original villages to conclude our tour in Arturo Prat Plaza de Armas.
End of tour 13:00 horas.
- PhysicalMedium
- CulturalVery high
- NatureVery low
Day 5: Torres del Paine National Park - Puerto Natales - Base Torres viewpoint
Trekking to Base Torres, in Torres del Paine National Park
- Departure: 07:00
- Duration: 11 hours
- Includes: Boxlunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel in Puerto Natales
Hiking to reach Base Torres del Paine, a place that will allow you to witness the 3 massifs: Central, Monzino and Dagostini, Pik and Nido de Cóndores hills. This is one of the best landscapes in the Torres del Paine National Park.
- PhysicalVery high
- NatureVery high
Day 6: Puerto Natales - Serrano glacier and Balmaceda glacier
Tour of navigation in Balmaceda and Serrano glaciers
- Departure: 06:30
- Duration: 11 hours
- Includes: Lunch
- Pickup / Dropoff: Hotel en Puerto Natales
If you want to see the glaciers of Chilean Patagonia, come to O'Higgins National Park and visit the Balmaceda glacier and Serrano glacier in an entertaining navigation through the Patagonian fords.
Departure from your hotel at approximately 06:30 am we will go to the pier of Puerto Natales. On the way it is possible to see the buildings belonging to the Bories refrigerator, which was one of the largest meat processing industries in Patagonia. Also you can see colonies of Imperial Cormorants, a small colony of sea lions and a variety of Coigues, Canelos, Lengas, Ñire, Chilco and El Calafate among others.
The Balmaceda glacier can be seen from the ship, however, to visit the Serrano glacier is necessary to make a 20 minute walk along a path that borders a small lake originated by the melting of the glacier.
17:00: We are back at your hotel.
- PhysicalMedium
- NatureVery high
Day 7: Puerto Natales - Punta Arenas
Transfer from your hotel to the terminal to start a two-hour return trip directly to the Punta Arenas airport.
- Airport transfer - Bus terminal in Punta Arenas
- Bus ticket
- Transfer bus terminal to hotel in Punta Arenas
- City tour Punta Arenas - Nao Victoria Museum
- Transfer hotel to bus terminal in Punta Arenas
- Bus ticket to Puerto Natales
- Transfers from bus terminal to hotel in Puerto Natales
- Tour Torres del Paine National Park (with box lunch)
- Cultural tour by bicycle in Puerto Natales
- Hikking Base Torres del Paine
- Navigation to Balmaceda and Serrano glaciers (lunch at Estancia Perales)
- Hotel transfers in Puerto Natales - airport in Punta Arenas.
- Airline ticket
- All not mentioned in the itinerary.
Recommendations
Optimum footwear, small excursion backpack, camera.
* This program has defined outputs: Start of the program day Tuesday - End day Monday
It is recommended to take flights to Punta Arenas in the morning.
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