Viaje en vehículo Patagonia Austral

Self guided travel
Austral Patagonian Routes and Lake District.

Be your own guide and drive at your own pace. Stop where you wish and spend as much time watching the flora, the fauna or just photographing a sunrise or sunset. This trip is designed for independent travellers and curious people that want their own rhythms and spiritual search along the Patagonian routes and landscapes!

Self guided travel
Austral Patagonian Routes and Lake District.

Be your own guide and drive at your own pace. Stop where you wish and spend as much time watching the flora, the fauna or just photographing a sunrise or sunset. This trip is designed for independent travellers and curious people that want their own rhythms and spiritual search along the Patagonian routes and landscapes!

Jan10th Day 1: Arrive into Punta Arenas in the south of Chile and pick up the rented vehicle (cat C. Step Way). You will drive to Torres del Paine. Here you will lodge for the following days at the fantastic Hosteria Las Torres at the heart of the National Park. You will be able to enjoy the park and go for a walk after you have arrived since the days during this time of the year are long.

Jan11th Day 2: Trekking to Las Torres, full day for your husband and full day horse ride for you enjoy its different views, fauna, flora, glaciers and mountains National Park. The guide will contact you the day before. Back to the Hosteria Las Torres. (B,LB)

Jan12th Day 3: After breakfast and packing will drive along the park and go for leisure walk like Laguna Verde on the Estancia Mirador del Payne. (B,LB,D)


Jan13th Day 4: Early wake up and long drive to El Chalten passing by El Calafate. Today you will need to cover 514 kms aprox on average good road. At El Calafate you will need to refill the tank. Can have nice empanadas for lunch at El Calafate and then continue to El Chalten and Parque Nacional Los Glaciares on the good road. Arrive to Hosteria Indansis and rest! Good place for dinner is Fueguia. Accommodation at hosteria Inlandsis. You will stay another night tomorrow.(B)
* Once on Argentina, from the border there are two petrol stations. The first one is 50 kms away from the border called Tapi Aike ( which could be closed for lunch) and the following one is another 70 kms called La Esperanza. In both cases must have pesos argentines for paying cash. $arg 1000 pesos argentines should be enough.

Jan14th Day 5: Today you will have a guide that will take you to the great walk up to Laguna de los tres. She or he will contact you at the hotel the day before. Back to the Hosteria. (B,BL)

Jan15th Day 6: Another day on the park trek to Laguna Torre. This is a nice trek that can be done on a long half day. Have a box lunch at the Mirador of Laguna Torres and come back, so packing in the morning to leave the rooms and then when you return to the village you will join the route 40 and arrive to El Calafate from where you will stay for 2 nights at Hosteria La Estepa in double twin rooms. Box lunch provided. NO guide today.(B,Bl)

Box lunch for day 16th can be bought at supermarket on the way or eat in the park at a resto. I recommend getting some nice empanadas and wine for the cat walks while enjoying the views.

Jan16th Day 7: Full day trip to the Los Glaciares National Park. To see the Perito Moreno Glacier and go for an optional boat trip of 45 minutes around the glacier you pay there the boat trip if you want to. Back to the busy Calafate town where you can enjoy a fantastic barbecue lamb at La Tablita, make a reservation before, ask at reception.(B)

Jan17th Day 8: Drive back to Punta Arenas. Going back the same way or in order to avoid the busy border you can cross at Rio Turbio, which is 232 kms to P Natales, and then another 276 kms more to Punta Arenas.Please note that you will probably need extra fuel that you will have to get at Puerto Natales. Arrive to Punta Arenas and accommodation at Hospedaje Terra Sur. (B)

Jan 18th Day 9: Drive to the airport and drop off the vehicle, in time to catch the flight to Puerto Montt.
Arrive to the airport in P. Montt and pick up the rented vehicle for the following days. Suggest visit Angelmo market with a short hike to Tenglo Island depending on flight.
Enjoy a different day walking excursion to the Tenglo Island , the fish and veggie market of Angelmo in Puerto Montt city.
We will take a 10 minutes public boat trip across the Tenglo Canal (balseo) to the pier of Tenglo Island which means quiet, calm place. We will spend 1 hours walking on natural trails and on the beach where there are no cars, just horses and some cattle. This tranquil and laid back location, offers spectacular views of the volcanoes, the Reloncavi sound, the open sea and the atmosphere of the true old way of working the land fishing.
We will sail back and visit the Angelmo market, one of the most famous in Chile. You will drive back to Pto Varas to your hotel. (Accommodation at Cabañas del Lago.)(B)

Jan 19th Day 10: Excursion to Vicente Perez Rosales National Park most visited park in Chile. Drive bordering the south side of the Lake Llanquihue and continue up to the Osorno Volcano Teski Ski Resort, 1200 masl. (3937 feet asl.) Where you will get spectacular views of the Mt Tronador, Volcano Puntiagudo, Llanquihue lake, and if is clear enough even the Reloncavi sound and of course the whole valley of Petrohue river. Appreciate the views going for a short walk along the Solitario trails starting just close to the Petrohue falls.Here we will join the natural trail which introduces us into the deep forest with lichens and ferns that slowly change the landscape into drier terrain and cross the lava flow of the last eruption in 1869. Back to the car and drive about 800 mts to to finally arrive to the spectacular Petrohue River Falls that flows to the estuary of Reloncavi. Visit the Emerald Lake. Drive back to your hotel. Arrive at 19 hs approx. (accommodation at Cabañas del Lago.) (B)

Jan 20th Day 11: Drive to Castro, Chiloe. Visit Dalcahue and its World Heritage Church. Walking tour around visiting the waterfront. Traditional cultures and wooden Churches. Visit Castro Church and main square. Back to Hotel in Castro. Accomm. At Palafito1326. Hotel. (B)

Jan 21st Day 12: Optional to Puñihuill Bay, penguin and bird watching by boat. Time there for lunch. Visit Fuerte de San Antonio the last Spanish bastion.
Drive back to Pto Varas. Arrive at hotel at 6-7pm aprox. (Accommodation at Cabañas del Lago.)(B)

Jan 22nd Day 13: Drop of car at Pto Montt Airport, and fly back to Santiago. Acccommodation at Hotel Vegas.



Price per person based 2 people: 2500 u$

The 2dinners in Torres del Paine at the Hotel Las Torres are missing . Which have not got the quotation yet.

Full day hike to Las Torres (The Towers) base
This is your chance to see your first sunrise in the park; have your cameras ready and batteries properly charged in order to enjoy and photograph this great nature spectacle; the first sun rays give the characteristic orange coloration to the granite walls of the Paine towers. You can start your hike to the base of the towers around 8, right after breakfast. This is a full day hike and it has the reputation of being one of the most strenuous in the entire park. The path steadily climbs the foothills of Almirante Nieto Mount for 1.5 hours. Then you will see the dramatic Ascencio Canyon, one of the valleys that dissect the Paine Massif from west to east. You will pass through secondary woodlands along the Ascencio river, and will have great views of the hanging glaciers of Nieto Mount and the contrasting rock layers of Paine Mount. An impressive morraine will block your view of the "Towers" for a while. This part of the trail has to be done with extreme caution and slow pace; it takes nearly 45 minutes of steady climb until you will gain height and have the most impressive view of the Paine towers. This is the grande finale of the hike. Huge boulders surround the hidden lagoon at the very base of the mountains; its greenish water is loaded with glacier sediment. From here you can study the different shades of the granite rock. Then you will start you hike back to Hosteria , appr. 3.5 hours, following the same trail.


Enchanted Valley Horse ride: One of the best ways to enjoy the sights of the Patagonia is by horse. This excursion gives you the possibility of entering one of the most important places inside the Cerro Paine Ranch, with important forests, streams, and an open prairie of more than 2 km where you will have the possibility to gallop through fields surrounded by beautiful vegetation.
Explore the Ascencio Valley You will, walking through a beautiful lenga forests and getting up close to the astounding Towers of Paine. Throughout the excursion you will walk through bushes, streams and moraines. If you like horses you can take the option to horseback ride to El Chileno Lodge, which is located half way. Then you will continue by foot walking up towards the base of the Towers.


Not included in the price:
Internal flights, airport taxes and boder taxes. Travel insurance .First aid kit. Charges for sailing the canal to Chiloe.
Entrance to the National Park los Glaciares and Torres del Paine. Fuel. Drinks and spirits ,meals, snacks nor box lunch except mentioned on the itinerary. Tips to guides. ~Drop off at different place other than Punta Arenas. And out of business hours in and drop off.
In Pto Montt any drop off not mentioned in the itinerary.
Included:
Rented car door for two people or similar, car permits to cross the border, and their documents, all breakfasts day per day itinerary, 4 Box lunch mentioned on itinerary, 1 dinner, mountain guide services for day 5 on the laguna de los tres trek. Full day excursion for Judy on horse back at Paine National Park.
To rent the car you will need to be over 18 years old, and have a valid driving license. Hold a credit card send a copy of the driving license of the people are going to drive, copy of the passport


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Payment process:
Bank Deposit in American dollars:
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90 days: prepayment will be refunded.
89- 29 days: 80 % of total will be refunded.
29 - 14 days: 50 % of total will be refunded.
13 - 0 days 0% of total will be refunded
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