Adventure in Patagonia
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NEUQUÉN Mt. San Lorenzo & OPTIONAL a OPTIONAL b RÍO NEGRO Adventure in Patagonia AR085 Cueva de las Manos AR086 Ushuaia AR090 Pre-tour Post-tour Southern Patagonia is dominated by two vast continental icecaps, the Northern Ice Field and the Southern Ice Field, which are the most intensely glacier-covered regions in South America. Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places in the world, Southern Patagonia includes the Mount San Lorenzo, the highest Southern Patagonia, dominated by the two vast continental CHUBUT worldwide renowned Los Glaciares and Torres del Paine National Parks. Their towering granite peaks attract thousands of trekkers every year. one of the Austral Andes, 3,706 icecaps, the Northern Ice Field and the Southern Ice Field, are the COMODORO RIVADAVIA meters high (12,159 feet), can most intensely glacier-covered regions in South America. DAY 1 - EL CALAFATE In the evening take a short trek to Chorrillo del will enable us to gain altitude over De Las bleak lake exposed to the fierce and incessant PERITO NEUQUÉN Reception at El Calafate airport and transfer to Salto Cascade across lenga and ñire woods. Vueltas River Valley. We will arrive at a lookout winds blasting down from the nearby Southern MORENO be seen from an incredible Undoubtedly one of the world´s most beautiful places, Southern the hotel. Accommodation. Return to El Chaltén. Accommodation at the from where it is possible to appreciate a Ice Field. Lunch Box. distance. This huge mountain Patagonia includes the world-wide renowned Los Glaciares and hotel. Dinner. breathtaking view of the rest of the circuit up to We will go trekking to Pliegue Tumbado, the SANTA CRUZ DAY 2 - EL CALAFATE / EL CHALTÉN Lunch at the hotel. Today our trek begins over the bottom of Fitz Roy River Valley, facing Mt. only place in the area from where it is possible dominates the surrounding Torres del Paine National Parks. Their toweringR ÍOg rNaEGnRiOte peaks EL CHALTÉN Breakfast. Transfer to El Chaltén by regular bus rolling wooded slopes and through small fire- Torre and Adelas Range. to see the entire panorama of the most landscape as a solitary giant. attract thousands of trekkers every year. line. El Chaltén is a village located in the heart cleared pastures sprinkled with calafate bushes, We will continue across a log bridge hanging important mountains of Patagonia: Mt. Torre The place is not very visited due of Los Glaciares National Park and at the feet of to enter the enclosed upper valley of Eléctrico over a stream, and along the lower edge of a and Mt. Fitz Roy apart from Rio de las Vueltas DAY 9 - EL CALAFATE / USHUAIA archeological deposits. Box Lunch. Return to the Mt. Fitz Roy (or El Chaltén) which is found at the River below high glacier-sheered cliffs. We will moraine until reaching Jim Bridwell Camp. A valley, El Chaltén, Viedma Lake, Paso del Reception at Ushuaia airport and transfer to the hotel. Accommodation. Dinner. to the long distances to any CHUBUT northern end of the park and which is part of a proceed over a path that goes gently up beside walk through young moraines with no Viento, Tunnel river, Toro Lagoon and Huemul hotel. Accommodation. Dinner. range of bizarre peaks including the needle-like the rushing, murky-grey river and through an vegetation will lead us to the coast of Laguna hill. The spectacular views of these peaks make urban center and because of DAY 12 - USHUAIA rock pinnacle of Mt.Torre. open, cattle-grazed lenga forest. We will reach Torre and to another extraordinary panorama of this trek the most wonderful in the zone, the poor road and tourist DAY 10 - USHUAIA Breakfast. Transfer to the airport. From El Chaltén, one of the most popular hikes Los Troncos Refuge. From here we will climb up which has rendered this area as a "must" for offering a special look at one of the wildest and Breakfast. Transfer to Mt. Martial base where a lift leads to the first camp site for the ascention to to Piedra del Fraile where we will have a great trekkers and climbers from all over the world: most untouched areas in the planet. A NOT infrastructure, so you will really INCLUDED chair will take you us to the starting point of the Mt. Torre. From here, it's possible to admire the view upvalley of Eléctrico Lake, a dramatically Mt. Torre, flanked by Egger, Standhard and wondrous unforgettable image that will be feel 'off the beaten track'. En trek upwards, that will lead us to the foot of walls of this granite mountain that for many bleak lake exposed to the fierce and incessant Bífida spires and the Adelas Range, Mounts printed in your heart indelibly. Return to the inn. Martial Glacier. Looking back on the way, we will SANTA CRUZ decades was considered "impossible to climb". winds blasting down from the nearby Southern Ñato and Grande, both with their respective Accommodation. Dinner. DAILY route to Mount San Lorenzo, have an amazing view of the city and the Beagle The primitive inhabitants of the area venerated Ice Field. Return to the inn. Accommodation. glaciers spreading down towards Laguna Torre. we will visit Cueva de las Manos Channel. From the foot of the glacier we will be Mt. Fitz RoNy EaUnQdU cÉaNlled it El Chaltén, which Box Lunch. Return to the hotel. DAY 6 - EL CHALTÉN / EL CALAFATE able to observe the summits of the Fueguinian EL CALAFATE means "mountain that smokes" as they DAY 3 - EL CHALTÉN Accommodation. Dinner. Breakfast. Day at leisure. ACCORDING TO ITINERARY (Cave of the Painted Hands), Andes Range and Andorra Valley. Box Lunch. believed it to be a volcano, probably because its Breakfast. Excursion to Laguna Torre. This Optional Tours(*): horse-back riding around the one of the most important Return to the hotel. Accommodation. Dinner. summit is always RcÍoOv eNrEeGdR wOith a layer of stunning upward trekking and through the DAY 4 - EL CHALTÉN area. Visit to Lago del Desierto. Viedma Lake clouds. The summit, that can be easily seen forest will take us to the foot of one of the Breakfast. Full day trekking towards Laguna de navigation. SPANISH AND ENGLISH cultural testimonies left by the DAY 11 - USHUAIA from far beyond, must have served them as an world´s nicest and most challenging mountains los Tres. This 12 km (7.5 miles) adventurous trek Departure to El Calafate at 5.00 pm. Breakfast. Departure from the hotel towards orientation signal during their annual migrations in the world, Mt. Torre. will give us the chance to reach the spot with Accommodation. former inhabitants of the region. Tierra del Fuego National Park, located only 12 USHUAIA from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes. The starting point is a steep upward slope which the most spectacular views of the "Patagonic km (7 miles) from Ushuaia. It preserves typical giants". Every turn of the trail offers a new and DAY 7 - EL CALAFATE CHUBUT species of the Andean Patagonic forest such as impressive landscape. During this 7-hour hike Breakfast. Overland trip to Perito Moreno firebushes, beech trees, nires, boxes leafed we will be in touch with amazing spots of the Glacier, one of the world's largest active 5 barberries and flowers, in an area of 63,000 Andean Patagonian region. We will continue continental glaciers, declared Universal DAYS hectares (155,700 acres). Before entering the NOT towards Laguna de los Tres, passing by Mt. Mankind´s Heritage Site by UNESCO because of National Park wea will board the Train to the NOT INCLUDED INCLUDED Rosado and Mt. León, skirting Chorrillo del Salto its breathtaking beauty and its unusual End of the World and enjoy an unforgettable River, with a breathtaking view of Fitz Roy, Saint behaviour. Box Lunch. Return to the hotel. SANTA CRUZ trip along the original embankment where the Exupery and Piedras Blancas massifs. Accommodation. DAILY old prisoners' train run until 1947 for their FULL BOARD Lunch.Then we will continue to Poincenot camp expeditions into the National Park in search of EL CHALTÉN site, named after the 1952 French expedition DAY 8 - EL CALAFATE wood for heating. The highlight of the park is participant who died trying to cross Fitz Roy Breakfast. Day at leisure. EL CALAFATE ACCORDING TO ITINERARY Lapataia Bay the southernmost tip of the ACCORDING TO ITINERARY River. Crossing Río Blanco, we will arrive at the Optional Tour (*): Upsalla & Onelli Navigation: continent, where we will be able to appreciate a camp site with the same name where the Departure from your hotel towards Puerto wonderful view of the Beagle Channel. Here, ascention starts, until reaching Laguna de los SPANISH AND BILINGUAL Bandera to board a catamaran that will take us the old inhabitants of the area have left their SPANISH AND ENGLISH (English - German - Italian - French) Tres, at the foot of Mt. Fitz Roy. Instead of to Upsala and Onelli Glaciers. Sail along the testimony in the "concheros", incredible returning to El Chaltén, we will go down the Northern Arm of the Argentino Lake towards valley along Blanco River. One hour after Upsala, the largest continental glacier in the passing by Poincenot base camp we will reach Southern Hemisphere. E Laguna Piedras Blancas. The Piedras Blancas disembark at Onelli Bay for a walk through the E R R U 9 Glacier appears on the eastern face of Mt. Fitz lenga forest to reach Onelli Lagoon where U T DAYS Roy in a series of icefalls that sprawl down into Bolado, Onelli and Agassiz Glaciers converge 9 T N DAYS N E this impressively bleak and cold melt water lake.