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English Version Get carried away by nature without limits. ADVENTURE IN PENÍNSULA VALDÉS PROGRAM 8 DAYS 7 NIGHTS ADVENTURE IN 8 DAYS PENÍNSULA VALDÉS 7 NIGHTS ///DAY 1: ///DAY 2: Buenos Aires - Puerto Madryn ADVENTURE IN Transfer in Alte. Zar airport from PUERTO MADRYN Trelew to Puerto Madryn Accommodation in selected Hotel. In the morning when the coast is usually calmer, you will have the possibility to interact and get to In the morning or afternoon, know the sea lions closely, to do so, depending on flight arrival time. there are two possible activities to approach the sea lion colony, kayaking or snorkeling. In the afternoon we will visit a 4x4: CERRO AVANZADO pottery workshop to learn how a WITH SNACK local artisan works. Our 4x4 trucks pick you up at your >> Snorkeling with hotel to start your way to Cerro Sea Lions Avanzado. Throughout the tour ITEMS TO BRING: we travel through country tracks, It´s an experience carried out in . Swimming suit dunes and cliffs. On our route we 3 places around the world in an . Towel visit the colony of sea lions of authorized and regulated way. We Punta Loma. have that privilege in Puerto Madryn ESTIMATED TOUR TIME: in the Punta Loma Nature Reserve, 3 hours. Main attractions: located approximately 15km from DIFFICULTY: . Sea Lions Colony the town, it takes us 25 minutes Medium, even though your . Beaches and coasts of sailing along a cliff stage where diving suit will allow you to . 4x4 adventure float, you will have to be able you can cross ship wrecks, whales, to move with diving fins for dolphins, cormorants, etc. Once 40 minutes having in account ESTIMATED TOUR TIME: inside the area, the interaction that you will be in a moving 3 hours, travel of environment all the time. approximately 40km. is proposed by them and us as spectators adapt. The current Minimum age: 7 years old. DIFFICULTY: regulation allows us to be one hour Maximum age: 65 years old Low in the area, so the playing activity and/or physical conditions accordingly. SEASON: with them is 40 minutes. Year-round SEASON: Year-round Dinner at selected restaurant. 4 SAN JOSÉ GOLFO PENÍNSULA VALDÉS 5 PENÍNSULA VALDES ADVENTURE PATAGONIA 8 DYS / 7 NIGHTS TOUR ARGENTINA ADVENTURE IN PENÍNSULA VALDÉS 8DAYS NIGHTS7 DAY 2: >> Kayak with >> Experience at Earthen sea lions Bowl warehouse We will pick you up early in the Juan Esteban Antognini will wait for morning, we will travel along the us at his Earthen Bowl workshop province routes to the south and storeroom in Quintas del appreciating the flora and fauna Mirador, in the outskirts of Madryn, of our Patagonia until we enter a to show us his work with ceramic; typical Patagonian ranch in the area he will explain how he uses high of Bahía Cracker, we will go through temperature ceramic (1,270 the countryside until we reach the degrees) and materials from the coastal area where we will prepare area. He will tell us about clay, the kayaks for our voyage, our guide Patagonia earth and sea shells. He will give instructions of navigation works without lead, “with the idea and safety,once ready we will start of transforming soil into ceramic our voyage heading north. Along the for you take a piece of Patagonia”. way we will admire the shorebirds Besides this, his business reuses nests (ex. Rocker Cormorant) and the passives of industry, recycles the formation of cliffs and restings garbage and looks for oils from which we will find throughout the restaurants around the area to use navigation of about 40 minutes, them as energy; he speaks with once at the sea lion colony we will great passion about what he does observe the interaction that these as he shows his machines. He friendly animals have with us and we knows how to spread enthusiasm GOLFO will disembark close to the sea lion when he speaks about using SAN JOSÉ colony to be able to admire them at less plastic. In his workshop you PENÍNSULA a prudential distance and know more can see some of the beauties he VALDÉS details of their life provided by our manufactures: casseroles, bowls, guide. Finally we will go back to our dishes, basins and even strainers. starting point where you can enjoy a snack-lunch (included) to then load and condition the kayaks on the SEASON: trailer and return to Puerto Madryn. Year-round Dinner at selected restaurant. DIFFICULTY: Medium SEASON: Year-round 6 PATAGONIA ARGENTINA ADVENTURE TOUR ///DAY3: Mountain Bike, journey by bike . Afternoon free to walk around MORE ADVENTURE through nonconventional roads the city center. IN PUERTO MADRYN: going up and down canyons, VALDES PENÍNSULA / 7 NIGHTS 8 DYS TREKKING AND/OR interpretation of intertidal areas, . Dinner at selected restaurant. MOUNTAIN BIKE IN CERRO journey through field prints, AVANZADO WITH LUNCH interpretation of flora of the ON SITE. CITY TOUR WITH area, panoramic point “Cerro ECOCENTRO Avanzado”, ride through canyons, stop to observe and interpret Pick up at your accommodation Marine fossils, snack, visit to with special 4x4 vehicles (schedule Provincial Reserve Punta Loma to be agreed), we go through (Sea Lion watching), wild lunch South area of Puerto Madryn and and return to Puerto Madryn. City tour, visit to Punta Cuevas and “El Indio Tehuelche” Historical Monument, journey through DIFFICULTY Káiser beach, panoramic points, Medium journey through Paraná beach SEASON and sightseeing of “Folias” (ship Year-round wreck), stop at starting point of 7 ADVENTURE IN PENÍNSULA VALDÉS 8DAYS NIGHTS7 ///DAY 4: permanent observatory which is DORADILLO BEACH in hands of Fundación Patagonia AND WELSH CULTURE Natural. The last stretch of trekking will be to reach Las Canteras, sit To go to Doradillo beach we for a while and watch the whales offer two interesting options to go by from the beach. We will get make contact with nature. And on our trucks on our way to our in the afternoon we will have an last destination, a pebble beach approach to Welsh culture. where we will be able to sit down to allow time go by as we fill with nature, in company of a delicious >> Option 1: restoring “mate”(typical Argentinian Doradillo Adventure beverage)… as we wait to recover energies with a country lunch. We will prepare to go on excursion Those who wish may approach at 10 a.m., on Land Rover trucks, the cook to participate on the in reduced groups of a maximum elaboration of the dish. Some of 8 passengers each vehicle chicken sandwiches with tasty accompanied by guides and sautéed vegetables, accompanied GOLFO cowboy drivers. We will leave by a glass of wine or beer. A sweet SAN JOSÉ the city towards the North, to bite for dessert and return to PENÍNSULA travel about 15km until we reach hotel at approximately 3:00 p.m., VALDÉS El Doradillo beaches, place of filled with whales and Patagonia incredible beauty. We will start with landscape! an ascent of a few meters, very easy for anyone, until the upper part of MAIN ATTRACTIONS: the thatch, where in line we will . Coast whale watching, trekking do a trekking for a little more than without difficulties, El Doradillo 1km, watching birds, getting to beach and Las Canteras beach. know the landscape and observing Light lunch with beverages. it from a height where our eyes (Alternative option in the will be dazzled by colors, sounds afternoon with a snack). and natural beauty. We will be able to see groups of Southern Right Whales from a height which will ESTIMATED TIME: 4 hours. allow us to enjoy these beautiful DIFFICULTY: Low mammals, getting close to the shore, playing with their calves and SEASON: Mid-June to early October. swimming as owning the place. As we get to Punta Flecha, we will visit the range marker (beacon) and the 8 PATAGONIA ARGENTINA ADVENTURE TOUR >> Option 2: Meditation with Whales and Lavender farm >> Culture We will leave from Puerto Madryn El Doradillo a real oasis in the On our way to the hotel we will in the morning, heading to El middle of the Patagonian Steppe freeze in time as we will stop in PENÍNSULA VALDES PENÍNSULA / 7 NIGHTS 8 DAYS Doradillo natural area, natural where we will find the Lavender some historical houses of the scenery where whales enjoy the distillery. We will walk around Welsh culture in the city. peace of this wonderful place the establishment experiencing in which we will carry out an the farm in all its dimension, . Dinner at selected restaurant. assisted meditation in contact observing the distillation processes with pure nature. Everything in this of lavender oil and what their meditation is carefully organized to owners tell us about their life in the remain in the listening to our own Patagonian countryside. inner state, self-observation and On our way back to Puerto Madryn contact with nature. Embraced by city we will finish our day enjoying the sound of birds, whales, the sea the beautiful view of our city. and the wind, meditation will be sublime and absolutely comforting and healing. After our snack we will DIFFICULTY Low take a walk and then we will return to Puerto Madryn deviating on our SEASON way to La Calandria ranch located Mid-June to early October in The Ecological park Área Natural 9 ADVENTURE IN PENÍNSULA VALDÉS 8DAYS NIGHTS7 ///DAY 5: Transfer to Puerto Pirámides, an animal that is characterized by Península Valdés its gentleness, its slowness and Accommodation at selected hotel curiosity, can approach to up to in Puerto Pirámides incredible small distances allowing us to observe them showing their such characteristic skin covered in Whale watching and calluses.
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