Discover the magnificent, wild and unspoilt Torres Del Paine national park, declared world heritage by the Unesco. ...
| Departures | Duration | Accommodation |
|---|---|---|
| Next Departures: each friday from El Calafate Departure guaranteed - Private departures available. |
7 days, 6 nights. | shared hostal room, refuge, camp. |
| Groups | Prices (2 p base) | Physical and technical level |
|---|---|---|
| from 2 to 15 trekkers | From 930 USD per person | intermediate physical level. Moderate Trekking This travel doesn't require any special technical level. |
Day 1
Reception at El Calafate Airport. Guides introduction and informative talk. Accommodation in a hostel or hotel. Meals: Dinner.
Day 2
El Calafate – Torres del Paine
Early start for a 6-h-drive to our camp in Paine. We drive across the steppe, in parts still following the legendary Route 40, to get round Sierra de los Baguales, an impressive range between El Calafate and Paine. We cross the Argentinean-Chilean border at Cancha Carrera/ Cerro Castillo. After the border crossing, we start our final sprint to Paine National Park, World Heritage by the UNESCO (United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization). Approaching the Park, we start to see the different mountains that feature the area: Paine Grande, the Horns, Admiral Nieto and the Towers. We enter the Park by Portería Sarmiento. A rich wildlife: guanacos, lesser rheas, condors and all types of wetland and buzzard birds, will be available for our eyes and cameras. We’ll stop at Lake Nordenskjöld and at Salto Grande viewpoints for short walks. In the afternoon we continue to visit the westernmost side of the National Park, lake Grey area, where a short and easy hike along the South shore of the lake allows us to enjoy the blue icebergs that calved from the glacier in the northern side of the lake and are pushed by the wind to this side. Lake Pehoe Full Camp keeps the style of Laguna Capri and Cerro Torre Full Camps, but combined with first class facilities: good and clean bathrooms and hot water showers, water and electricity in each camping site. Accommodation in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with bathroom facilities)
Included meals: breakfast, lunchbox, dinner.
Day 3
Las Torres – Ascensio River Valley
We drive and tour to get to Estancia Cerro Paine, headtrail for the world famous Paine Towers. We warm up hiking a steep one-hour slope, to enter the Ascensio river valley, a narrow “V” shaped alpine valley coming from inside the Paine massif. A gentle downhill leads us to Refugio Chileno, a cozy and comfortable mountain lodge, which can be a good turnaround point for those not willing to make a full day hike. We then walk on a gentle slope along the riverside and in the midst of beech woods. A final climb on moraine takes us to the Towers viewpoint: a glacier origin lagoon and the three towers rising up vertically 1000 m above the glacier. Your lack of breath will be both from the climb and because of this marvellous sight!!!! We go back to our camp the same way we came. Walking time: 7 to 8 hs. Accommodation in Full Camp Camping Pehoe double or single base (area with bathroom facilities)
Included meals: breakfast, lunchbox and dinner.
Day 4
Pehoe Lake Navigation, Del Frances Valley
Early in the morning, boarding at Puerto Pudeto, we sail 45 minutes across the Pehoe Lake, arriving at the Pehoe Refuge area. We walk from there untilwe reach e Del Francés 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 the most wonderful needles and walls of the massif: Cuernos, Espada, Máscara, Hoja, Aleta de Tiburón, Catedral, and Paine Grande. The forest and the suspended glaciers that cause continuous ice and snowfalls, give an unique atmosphere to this walk. We descend by the same trail and turn West rounding Skottberg Lake until we reach Pehoe Refuge, our Camp for this night. It’s a total 7-hour trek. Accommodation in Full Camp Pehoe Refuge area double or single base (area with bathroom facilities)
Included meals: breakfast, lunchbox and dinner.
Day 5
Lake Grey trail leads across ridges from Pehoe Valley to Grey valley. This magnificent valley flows down some 60 km from the Patagonian Icefield, featuring the huge glacier calving down into the grey colored lake. Our trail skirts the lake, going up and down the westerns slopes of Paine Grande, offering some of the most impressive sights of the Park. From the high sections of the trail, many different viewpoints allow us to see the south end of the lake where the blue icebergs gather, the mountains rising far in the distance above glaciers Grey and Tyndall, and of course lake and glacier Grey. The trail reaches a close up point to the front of the glacier. We go back along the same trail, crossing bogs, shrublands and forests. In the evening we take the boat to cross lake Pehoe and then to our accommodation in Puerto Natales, a picturesque fishermen town located on the shores of the Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) fiord. Walking Time 8 hs. To the half-way viewpoints, a round way from our camp: 4 to 5 hs.
Lodging at a Hostel room with shared bathroom.
Alternative: Hosteria or Inn, double or single rooms with private bathroom.
Included meals: Breakfast, lunchbox.
Day 6
Puerto Natales – El Calafate
We leave early in the morning our camp, as our fellow travellers are going south in a long drive today and we are getting back to the border to reenter Argentina and drive back to El Calafate. Upon arrival to El Calafate you will be met by our local representative and transferred to you hostel. The rest of the day is at your own to visit town. Lodging in a Hostel room with shared bathroom. Alternative: Hosteria or Inn, double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Breakfast
Day 7
Transfer to the airport. Included meals: Breakfast.
BOOKING
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