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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 Lago 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 shared bathroom. Alternatives: Inn Room double or single base with private bathroom. Meals Included: Dinner
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El Calafate – Torres del Paine
We depart early in the morning (around 7 am) from El Calafate to Torres del Paine through a spectacular landscape of the Patagonia steppe. Choiques and flamingos are very common in this area. Almost 4 hours from starting our journey, we will be at the border crossing between Chile and Argentina called ¨Paso Cancha Carrera¨. We continue until reach the Torres del Paine National Park. UNESCO gave to this park the World Heritage status, due to its unique wildlife and magnificent scenery. We arrive to our camp at Camping Pehoe Full Camp after 6 hours of travel. Afternoon, we will visit several panoramic viewpoints of the Nordenskjöld Lake and the “Cuernos del Paine” (Paine Horns), to finally arrive to the Camping Pehoe Full Camp. Duration of the journey: 6 hs approx.
Lodging in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services) Included meals: breakfast and dinner.
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Las Torres – Ascensio River Valley
We dedicate this day to one of the most spectacular and classical trekking in the park: the Torres Trail. We transfer after breakfast by bus to the trail start at Las Torres area. We cross a suspended bridge and remount the slopes of the Almirante Nieto Mount, bordering the Ascencio River. After one hour ascending we go into the Valley, and reach Chileno Refuge. From there the trail leads us through the forest, in the middle of unforgettable landscapes, to Las Torres base camp. There the climbers wait good weather conditions to climb Las Torres. We trek one hour more to reach the Las 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 Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with sanitarium services). Included meals: breakfast, lunch box and dinner.
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Pehoe Lake Navigation, Del Frances Valley
Early in the morning we cross sailing 45 minutes the Pehoe Lake embarking at puerto Pudeto and arriving at the Pehoe Refuge area. We walk from there until get the Del Frances Valley. It’s a beautiful mountain valley descending from the middle of the massif toward the Nordenskjold Lake. Flanked by The Horns to the east and by the impressive Paine Grande (3050 meters/10006 ft) to the west. We ascend the valley until the upper viewpoints located in a natural amphitheater surrounded by some of needles and walls most wonderful of the massif: Cuernos, Espada, Mascara, Hoja, Aleta de Tiburon, Catedral, and Paine Grande. The forest and the suspended glaciers that cause continuous ice and snow fallings, give us a unique scenery to this walk. We descend the same trail and turn west rounding Skottberg Lake until arrive to our Camp for this night at Pehoe Refuge area. It’s a total 7-hour trek.
Lodging in Full Camp Pehoe Refuge area double or single base (area with sanitarium services)
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Grey Glacier Viewpoints
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 Grey Lake. 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 7 hours. At the end of the day we sail again the Pehoe Lake to the south shore to return to our Full Camp at Camping Pehoe area.
Lodging in Full Camp at Camping Pehoe area 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 shared bathroom
Alternatives: Inn Room double or single base 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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