Itinerary

Season: From October to April

Departures: Everyday

Day 01: Punta Arenas

Reception at Punta Arenas airport (we suggest take the first flight to reach Punta Arenas before 12:00 hrs.).Transportation to the city and accommodation in hotel of your choice. At 14:30 hrs. depart from your hotel to start a City Tour to know the main city attractions, its history, legends and adventures lived by our colonists and aboriginals. A visit to a museum will show us all better. Transportation to your hotel. Lodging.

Day 02: Punta Arenas – Puerto Natales

Breakfast. At 10:00 hrs. depart from your hotel heading south toward "Fuerte Bulnes" located at 60 kms (3 ½ hours of excursion). It is a place of a great natural beauty and historical importance. By the afternoon, at 14:30 hrs. we will pick up you in your hotel to drive you to bus station to board (at 15:00 hrs.) the intercity public bus to Puerto Natales (247 kms / 3 hours of trip). Reception at bus station and transportation to hotel. Lodging.

Day 03: Puerto Natales - Torres del Paine National Park

Breakfast. At 07:30 hrs. departure from your hotel to begin the full-day excursion that will take you first to the imposing Cave of the Milodon (Natural Monument), and later, the Torres del Paine National Park, where the welcome is a beautiful overview of the Cordillera of Paine. Also we will admire lakes as Sarmiento, Nordenskjold and Pehoe. Its fauna will be present through guanacos and foxes, among others, and big variety of birds of easy observation during the trip. A short trek will take us to a big waterfall called "Salto Grande" which is part of park hidrographical net. Later, retaking the main way, it access to CONAF central office, to continue to Lake Grey, where after to walk (30 minutes) through a millenium forest we will get to its beach to admire a great number leading offs floes from glacier. A box lunch is included in the service. At approximately 19:30 hrs. return to Puerto Natales. Lodging.

Day 04: Puerto Natales - Sailing to Glaciers

Breakfast. At 7:45 hrs. transfer from your hotel to local pier. At 8:00 hrs. departure time of maritimal excursión to Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers. This sailing lasts about 4 hours to Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. During the trip we will be able to observe the first local cattle ranches, cormorants and sea lions colonies, beech forests waterfalls and cliffs, the perfect home of majestic Condor. Once in the park we will get to Monte Balmaceda that show us from its eastern slope the glacier of the same name. Later we will approach land on Puerto Toro docking area, from where we will start a short trek to Serrano Glacier crossing a native forest and the lake's shore. A box lunch type or lunch in Perales ranch is included. At approximately at 17:00 hrs. return to Puerto Natales city. Transfer to hotel. Lodging.

Day 05: Puerto Natales – Punta Arenas – Penguin colony

Breakfast. At morning transfer to bus office to board public intercity bus to Punta Arenas (247 kms / 3:15 hours trip). Reception at bus station and transportation to the hotel. By the afternoon at 16:00 hrs. depart from your hotel heading north to Otway Inlet Penguin Colony, place where hundreds of magellanic penguins gather every year to nest. This colony is located approximately 70 kms. from the city. During the trip we will see Cabo Negro (Cape Black), Kon Aiken (which means the place of the winds in the Tehuelche language) and Pecket sector which is one of the biggest coal mines in Chile. Once in the reserve we will walk along the Otway Inlet coast for approximately 1 km, and be able to observe the habitat of this beautiful specie. Without doubt the landscape and the penguins will make this excursion unforgettable. We estimated the return to Punta Arenas at 20:00 hrs. Lodging.

Day 06: Punta Arenas

Breakfast. Transportation to the airport (at an hour to be determined).

End of services.
Activities

* Excursion
* Geology and Volcanoes