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10 days
Availability : All year
What you can expect
  • Santiago de Chile is one of the most exciting cities in Latin America, and you will enjoy your visit. You will see real contrasts between the modern and the colonial part.
  • Enjoy the astonishing landscape that makes part of the region around Puerto Chacabuco, as we will cross the Andes Mountain Range through the Chilean Patagonia.
  • Enjoy a trip on board of a catamaran that will take you across islands, channels, and fiords inside unimaginable scenery until reaching the marvellous San Rafael Lagoon.
  • The Aiken del Sur Park offers natural attractions such as the area on the shore of the Riesco Lake. This lake has a surface of 14 km2, quiet and blue crystal-clear waters.
  • Enjoy the astonishing landscape that makes part of the region around Puerto Chacabuco, as we will cross the Andes Mountain Range through the Chilean Patagonia.
  • Enjoy a trip on board of a catamaran that will take you across islands, channels, and fiords inside unimaginable scenery until reaching the marvellous San Rafael Lagoon.
  • The Aiken del Sur Park offers natural attractions such as the area on the shore of the Riesco Lake. This lake has a surface of 14 km2, quiet and blue crystal-clear waters.

Itinerary at a Glance

Day 1
Santiago | Arrival and city tour
Day 2
Santiago | Balmaceda and Puerto Chacabuco
Day 3
Puerto Chacabuco | San Rafael Lagoon
Day 4
Puerto Chacabuco | Aikén del Sur Private Park
Day 5
Puerto Chacabuco | Queulat National Park
Day 6
Puerto Chacabuco | Flight to Santiago
Day 7
Santiago | Punto Arenas and Puerto Natales
Day 8
Puerto Natales | Milodon Cave Natural Monument and Torres del Paine National Park
Day 9
Puerto Natales | Sailing to the Balmaceda Glacier and Serrano Glacier.
Day 10
Punta Arenas | Flight back home
Itinerary

Day 1Santiago de Chile

• Upon your arrival, we will receive you at the airport and bring you safely and comfortably to your hotel.
• City tour: Visiting the main tourist attractions.
• Santiago is a mixture of the old and the modern, features that we invite you to know. Our trip through Santiago will show the immensity of the city, its varied geography and civility.
• We will guide you through the Main Square of Santiago, where the Cathedral, Main Post Office and City Hall are located. You will be told about the origins of our city.
• Next stop is the civic neighbourhood and the surroundings of La Moneda Government Palace.
• After that, we will drive through some of the old areas of Santiago, such as República and Concha y Toro neighbourhoods.
• Later we will visit the eastern part of the city, and we will see the modern buildings and the changes that they have brought to the district.
• We finish our tour in a handicraft store, located in an exclusive neighbourhood, where we’ll appreciate with a Pisco Sour, Lapizlázuli masterpieces, made with this stone that just exists in Chile and Afghanistan.
• Return your hotel.
• Enjoy your first night at your preferred hotel in Santiago.

Day 2Santiago, Balmaceda and Puerto Chacabuco

• We pick you up at your hotel and bring you to the airport in Santiago.
• Reception at the Balmaceda Airport and transfer to Hotel Loberías del Sur, located in Puerto Chacabuco.
• To get there, you will cross part of the Carretera Austral (Southern Road), which goes through Llanquihue and Palena provinces, on the side of the continent, up to Aysén region, passing by the beautiful city of Coyhaique.
• On the ride to the hotel, you will have the opportunity to appreciate a small sample of this astonishing landscape that makes part of these latitudes, as we will cross the Andes Mountain Range through the Chilean Patagonia.
• Arrival at the Loberías del Sur Hotel featuring the beautiful bay of Puerto Chacabuco as background.
• You will stay three nights at the hotel.
• At nightfall, a welcome dinner will be offered in the hotel, including appetisers, main course, dessert and coffee.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Chacabuco.
• Breakfast and dinner included.

Day 3San Rafael Lagoon

• Today you will take part of an unforgettable trip on board of the Chaitén catamaran that will take you across islands, channels, and fiords inside unimaginable scenery until reaching the marvellous San Rafael Lagoon.
• The main tour attraction is the peacefulness of this lagoon with a surface of 170 square kilometres, floes and snowdrifts letting old-age ice rocks fall down constantly and thunderously.
• Then on board of a zodiac (if weather conditions allow), you will get closer to San Rafael snowdrift, and you will see some floes moving around.
• Upon the end of the excursion, you will taste whisky on the rocks made with cubes of ice being more than 20,000 years old.
• You will stay there for 2 – 3 hours and then you will go back to your hotel to enjoy a delicious dinner.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Chacabuco.
• Breakfast and dinner included.

Day 4Puerto Chacabuco and Aikén del Sur Private Park

• In the morning, a bus will take you from the Loberías del Sur Hotel to the Aiken del Sur Private Park across a landscape of unique beauty in Patagonia.
• You will start there an excursion combining adventure, close contact with Patagonian virgin nature and emotion.
• The Aiken del Sur Park offers natural attractions such as the area on the shore of the Riesco Lake. This lake has a surface of 14 km2, quiet and blue crystal-clear waters.
• Enjoy a 22-meter waterfall, native woodlands with perennial species, annual plants, humid species, some of them first found in Chile, moss and liverworts; broad prairies where aged myrtles and tepa trees as chilco and calafate mix together; taro and mallin plants; swamp lands.
• Later, at the agreed time, we will return to the hotel for relaxing after a long day full of unforgettable experiences and adventures.
• At nightfall, you can taste a pleasant dinner, which is a proper opportunity for talking about the day’s adventures.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Chacabuco.
• Breakfast and lunch included.

Day 5Puerto Chacabuco and Queulat National Park

• After breakfast at the hotel, we will depart to visit the Queulat National Park.
• With a surface of 150,000 kms2, Queulat National Park features a temperate rainforest weather, two icefields and seven glaciers. Its mountains sink into the sea, and eight beautiful rivers cross the land. Its fauna offers whales, seabirds in the Queulat Fjord and thermal activities.
• Return to Puerto Chacabuco, dinner and accommodation.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel Puerto Chacabuco.
• Breakfast included.

Day 6Puerto Chacabuco and Santiago de Chile

• After a well-deserved night of relaxing, and breakfast, we bring you to the Balmaceda Airport.
• Flight to Santiago.
• Transfer to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel Santiago de Chile.
• Breakfast included.

Day 7Santiago, Punto Arenas and Puerto Natales

• We pick you up and bring you to the airport. We recommend you, to take the first flight to Punta Arenas to arrive before 12 pm.
• Reception at the Punta Arenas Airport.
• Transfer to the city, time at leisure (lunch on behalf of passengers).
• At 04:00 pm is your city tour and visit of an interesting museum.
• After that, transfer to the local bus terminal to take the regular bus heading to the city of Puerto Natales. (3:15 hrs)
• Upon arrival in Puerto Natales, we bring you to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Natales.
• Breakfast included.

Day 8Puerto Natales: Milodon Cave Natural Monument and Torres del Paine National Park

• After your breakfast, approximately at 07:30 am, we will depart from the hotel to start the full-day excursion that will lead us to the stunning Milodon Cave Natural Monument and later to the Torres del Paine National Park.
• You will enjoy overwhelming views of the impressive mountains and beautiful lakes such as Sarmiento, Nordenskjold and Pehoé. Its rich fauna will be present through “guanacos” and “foxes”, among others, including several birds we easily can watch during the trip.
• A short trek will take us to the Salto Grande, a magnificent waterfall coming from the rivers of the park.
• Then, returning to the main road, we will access the administrative headquarters of CONAF to continue to the Grey Lake where after a 30-minute walk through a thousand-years forest, we will get to its beach. This is a place to admire, and you can see big pieces of icebergs coming from the glacier.
• A box lunch is included in the service.
• At 07:30 pm we will return to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Puerto Natales.
• Breakfast and box lunch included.

Day 9Puerto Natales, Balmaceda, Serrano Glacier and Punta Arenas (12 de Mayo Embarkation)

• Breakfast and departure from the hotel to a local pier to start our sailing to the Balmaceda Glacier and Serrano Glacier.
• This sail tour lasts about four hours to the Bernardo O´Higgins National Park.
• During the trip, we will be able to watch cormorants and sea lions colonies, waterfalls and cliffs, the perfect home for the majestic condor.
• Later, we will approach land on “Puerto Toro” docking area, from where we will start a short trek to the Serrano Glacier, crossing a native forest and the lake’s shore.
• Lunch in Estancia Perales or box lunch.
• Approximately at 05:30 pm, we will return to Puerto Natales.
• At the agreed time, transfer to take the regular bus heading to Punta Arenas (3:15 hours).
• We receive you at the terminal and bring you to the hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Punta Arenas.
• Breakfast and lunch box included.

Day 10Punta Arenas

• After a restful night’s sleep and a delicious breakfast, it´s time to say Good-Bye, and we bring you back to the airport, to take your flight home.
• We are very proud to welcome you again in the future and to show you other marvellous and fantastic parts of the world.
• Breakfast included.

Price includes:

• Accommodation according program
• Regular services with bilingual guide
• All transfers
• Excursions according to our program
• Meals described in the itineraries
• Entrance tickets
• Full board in Loberías del Sur (No beverage included)
• 24 hours assistance during your trip
• Fair and final price – No hidden fees and costs and no extra charges

Price excludes:

• International air fares
• Park fees on Easter Island
• Entrance fee to parks in San Pedro de Atacama
• Optional excursions
• Beverages in Loberías del Sur
• Tips
• Travel insurance

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