Patagonia Highlights

Navigate through the Ultima Esperanza Sound to admire one of the most beautiful landscapes of the Chilean Patagonia and discover the splendors of Torres del Paine National Park, a World Biosphere Reserve!

Day 1: Punta Arenas | Puerto Natales

On arrival at Punta Arenas you will be met and transferred by private car to the bus terminal, to board a bus for the approximately 3 hour drive to Puerto Natales. A private car transfer will take you your hotel for check-in and overnight accommodation.

Day 2: Balmaceda & Serrano Glaciers

Early breakfast at your hotel before departing on an unforgettable excursion sailing through the Last Hope Sound to the Serrano & Balmaceda glaciers (box lunch included). The tour starts from the EPA pier located across from Hotel Costaustralis at 8:00am. Once passengers are on board the Angusa-Tonina, enjoying a snack served by a crew member, the vessel sails through Puerto Bories. This port is a National Historical Monument. For more than 60 years, it was the most important cold-store in the area. Its brickwork and industrial post English Victorian architecture stand-out. The trip continues to Guanaco Island where small and wonderful Tonina dolphins can be seen as well as Sea Lions on the rocks. Then, through Estancia Margot, the trip continues to Pared de Cormoranes (wall of Cormorants), where hundreds of cormorants can be seen spreading their wings at the wind, and on to Punta de Lobos, for a stop to visit Cascada de Cóndores (Condor's Cascade). The journey then continues to Balmaceda’s Glacier. In Puerto Toro, passengers disembark to start a one-hour walk by the lake shore and through a native forest of Coihues towards Serrano Glacier, enjoying the amazing vegetation with the contrast of clean sky and sea ice & the unique flavour of a whiskey served on-the-rocks with millenary glacier ice accompanied by a second snack. Finally, the vessel departs from Puerto Toro and salis toward Eberhard Fjord. Here, passengers enjoy a short trek through Puerto Consuelo ranch before tasting a delicious barbecue of Magellan lamb at the Eberhard Ranch. Late afternoon return to Puerto Natales and overnight accommodation. (B.L)

Day 3: Torres del Paine

Breakfast at hotel. Today you will enjoy a full day tour to the Torres del Paine National Park, a World Biosphere Reserve and a veritable paradise for flora and fauna lovers. The excursion begins visiting the Milodon Cave, a natural monument located on Benitez Hill, where in 1895 remains of the extinct Sabre Toothed Tiger, American Horse and a large mammal known as Milodon were found. A half hour walk take us into the cave to observe the stalactites, places where the remains were found as well as a replica of the Milodon. Afterward a brief stop in the village of Cerro Castillo, the tour continues towards Torres del Paine National Park. Visitors will be able to enjoy the most diverse landscapes, such as the Magellanic Deciduous Forest and the vast Patagonian Steppe dominated by the wind and aridity. On the way you may be able to spot two unique species of the local fauna: the Patagonian Guanaco, the South American Camel, and the endemic Rhea, a relative of the African Ostrich. Once at the park, which is a Biosphere Reserve with a surface over 242,000 hectares, the landscape changes drastically becoming unforgettable due its dozen lakes populated by marine birds, and in the background granite peaks dominating the area. Turquoise lakes, waterfalls and mountains covered by ice are the predominant landscape inside the park. A walk for 15 minutes takes you to Salto Grande, a waterfall which links two big lakes inside the park: Nordenskjold and Pehoe Lakes. After lunch the trip continues with a walk on the shores of Grey Lake, where blue icebergs can be seen with the vast Grey Glacier in the background. Return to Puerto Natales for overnight. (B.L)

Day 4: Puerto Natales | Punta Arenas

Breakfast. At the appropriate time you will be transferred to the bus terminal for the return drive to Punta Arenas. Transfer to the airport and end of services. (B)

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