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El Calafate Airport – Calafate
We receive you at El Calafate Airport from there you are transferred to El Calafate City, where at 7 pm the group meet by first time at the Hostal del Glaciar Libertador, at Del Libertador 587, El Calafate. You meet your guide, and you enjoy a dinner with you adventure partners while chatting on the program details for tomorrow.
Lodge at Hostel Room with private bathroom. Meals Included: dinner
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El Calafate – Torres del Paine
We depart from El Calafate, until reach with legendary 40 Route, where we turn toward the south for 70 kilometers of rubble way. About 3 hours later we arrive to the border between Argentina and Chile (CanchaCarrera-CerroCastilloPass). Before complete the custom procedure, we continue for 2 hours more driving on a well maintained rubble way, now with the Torres Massif in our landscape. We stop a couple of times to take panoramic pictures and to observe bunches of “guanacos”. Finally we arrive to the Torres del Paine National Park by Amarga Lagoon. It’s a total of 6 hours transfer, until our Full Camp at Camping Las Torres.
Lodging in Full Camp at Camping Las Torres double base (area with sanitarium services). Meals Included: dinner
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Torres –Ascensio River Valley
This day is dedicated to one of the most classical and amazing treks of the Park: the trail toward the Paine’s Towers. After breakfast we cross a hanging bridge and remount the Almirante Nieto Mount path, going on the border of AscencioRiver. After one hour we go into the valley, until arrive to Chileno Refuge. The trail slopes down into an impressive forest where you get unforgettable landscapes. We reach Las Torres Base Camp where the mountaineers wait, sometimes for months, the appropriate weather conditions to climb the Torres Viewpoint, an amazing natural amphitheater at the bottom of the vertical granite towers that reach 2800 meters height. We return by the same way. It’s a total 7-hour trek.
Lodging in Full Camp at Camping Las Torres double base (area with sanitarium services). Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Las Torres –Los Cuernos Refuge
Today we start the two days Nordenskjold crossing, that lead us to the Full Camp at Refugio Pehoe, with one night spent at Los Cuernos Refuge. Before breakfast we prepare our backpack with only the needed for the next two days traverse: some clothes, the box lunch and the camera. We pack the rest of the luggage that will be transfer by our bus to the Refugio Pehoe Full Camp, where we’ll find it again. We walk by the Nordenskjold lake north shore. Three hours later we will be arriving to Los Cuernos Refuge.
Lodging in a Full Camp at Los Cuernos Refuge area. Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Valle Frances –Pehoe Refuge
We start our trek early in the morning, arriving two hours later at the start of the FrancesValley. It’s a beautiful valley descending from the massif to the Nordenskjold Lake, outflanked by the imposing Paine Grande Mount, (3050 meters height) on the west side. We remount the valley until the upper viewpoints, surrounded by the most impressive peaks of the massif: Cuernos, Espada, Mascara, Hoja, Aleta de Tiburon, Catedral, and Paine Grande. The forest and the suspended Glaciers producing continuous ice and snow fallings give a spectacular frame to this walk. We return descending the valley until reach the SkottbergLake, and arriving at our Full Camp at Refugio Pehoe at the end of the day, where our luggage will be waiting for us. We trek 9 hours this demanding day.
Lodging in Full Camp at Refugio Pehoe double base (area with sanitarium services). Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Grey Glacier Valley – Pehoe Refuge
Another unforgettable day dedicated to the Grey Glacier, impressive Glacier 300 square kilometers of surface (115 square miles), 25 kilometers long (16 miles). It overflows from the Continental Ice Field falling into GreyLake. The Glacier produce enormous amount of blue icebergs that sail over the lake pushed by the wind toward the south, given the characteristic feature to this lake. The trail leads us to a wonderful viewpoint where we can appreciate the whole lake, the glacier and the mountains that emerge from the west of the Ice Field. Two more hours walking and we arrive to another viewpoint just in front of the Glacier. All the trek is develop between Andean bush and lengas forest, at the shadow of the ice blocks that drape the Paine Grande Mount. We walk this day about 8 hours with ups and downs. This day is exigent as the last one.
Lodging in Full Camp at Refugio Pehoe double base (area with sanitarium services). Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Pehoe Lake Navigation - Salto Grande - Camping Pehoe
We have breakfast later than usual to recover from the last two-day efforts. In the afternoon, with our luggage packed, we cross PehoeLake on a catamaran towards Pudeto, where we continue by land transportation to our Full Camp located at Camping Pehoe. After lunch at Campsite we visit Salto Grande and walk a 45 minutes trails to get the NordenskjoldLake beaches, where we have a wonderful view of the entire path we have walked the days before.
Lodging in Full Camp at Camping Pehoe double base (area with sanitarium services). Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Grey Lake - Camping Pehoe
We use this day to visit the west side of the Park. We pass an easy trail by the GreyLake south shore, plenty of icebergs, and ascending to the Ferrier viewpoint with wide landscapes over the entire Park.
Lodging in Full Camp at Camping Pehoe double base (area with sanitarium services) Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales - El Calafate
In the morning we start our land transfer from Torres del Paine to Puerto Natales, where we visit and enjoy the city. Then we continue being transfered by regular bus crossing the border to reenter Argentina. Our guide will say us goodbye when we board the Bus at Puerto Natales. We arrive to El Calafate at the end of this day where another person will be waiting for us and transfer us to the Hostel.
Lodge at Hostel Room with private bathroom. Meals Included: breakfast
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El Calafate - El Calafate Airport
After breakfast we transfer to El Calafate Airport where we end our services.
Meals Included: breakfast
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