Patagonia - Then Andes and Torres del Paine (Chile)
12-Days / 11-Nights
Buenos Aires (3-Nights), Bariloche (2-Nights), Puerto Montt (1-Nights), Puerto Natales(2-Nights)
and Calafate (3-Nights)



| Day 1 | Buenos Aires |
After the welcome at the International Airport of Ezeiza, the trip to the selected hotel will take place. The rest of the day is free to rest at ease. |
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| Day 2 | Buenos Aires |
During this day, we will make a city tour over the Buenos Aires city, showing its different districts, communities and architectural styles. After having the free afternoon to do shopping around the city, in the night we will go to a tango house to join a Dinner Tango Show and enjoy a great show. Return to hotel. |
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| Day 3 | Buenos Aires / Bariloche |
Transfer to the local airport to fly to Bariloche city. Arrival and transfet to hotel. Free afternoon. |
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| Day 4 | Bariloche |
In the morning we will visit the city and its surroundings: Small Circuit. Beautiful tour lining Nahuel Huapi Lake; after enjoying charming landscapes, we reach the foot of the Campanario Hill, where there is a cable chair that takes the traveller to the peak (1050 metres), an ideal site to take a beautiful panoramic view of the city, its lakes and mountains. Free afternoon. |
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| Day 5 | Bariloche / Crossing of lakes / Puerto Montt |
In this route the spectacular crossing of the Andean Cordillera, from Bariloche to the Chilean city of Puerto Montt Port. We leave from Bariloche, Puerto Pañuelo and we get on board of El Cóndor Catamaran to sail one tour along the Blest Branch of the Nahuel Huapí Lake, visiting Los Cántaros cascade. With time to have lunch (optional) in the cosy restaurant of the Blest Lodging House, enjoying in addition an imcamparable view of the lake. After having lunch we get on a bus to head to Puerto Alegre, skirting the Frias river during 1.87 miles. We get on board the Dalca motorship to sail the lake for 15 minutes, having our first view of the Tronador Hill. We reach Puerto Frias, where we pass Mirgration controls and Argentinean Customs. Once the procedure is done, we continue (by bus) appreciating the exuberant vegetation and the snowy peaks of the Andes Mountain Range, crossing the border through the Mountain Pass Vicente Pérez Rosales, to cover 18.12 miles until reaching Peulla. We don the procedures at the Chilean Customs to enter the country and we reach Petrohué, where we disembark and continue by bus to reach the last stop and observe the Petrohué falls. Skirting the Llanquihue Lake we arrive at the city of Puerto Montt. |
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| Day 6 | Puerto Montt / Punta Arenas / Puerto Natales |
Transfer to the local airport of Puerto Montt to fly to Punta Arenas city. Arrival and transfer to the Puerto Natales city. Free afternoon. |
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| Day 7 | Puerto Natales / Torres del Paine / Puerto Natales |
Today we will do a full-day tour to the National Park Torres del Paine: once into the Park, we will be able to enjoy its particular relief, rough geography, its lakes, flora and fauna, which make into an ideal spot for the ecotourism and adventure sports practice. The amazine landscape is owed to the earth movements that took place 12 million years ago, which gave rise to amazing peaks like el Monte Paine Grande, Los Cuernos del Paine and Torres el Paine, where you can find glaciers in some of them. Today we will have accommodation into the National Park. Accommodation in Puerto Natales. |
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| Day 8 | Puerto Natales / Calafate |
Transfer to the local bus station to take local bus to El Calafate. Arrive and transfer to the hotel in Calafate. |
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| Day 9 | Calafate |
Full day tour to the National Park Los Glaciares, visiting the Perito Moreno Glacier. This natural monument of extraordinary beauty has been declared by UNESCO as Humantiy Patrimony. |
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| Day 10 | Calafate |
Day at leisure. We recommend to sail along the Argentine Lake to visit the glacier field. You would see, among other, the Upsala Glacier (the biggest in terms of size and surface), the Spegazzini and Onelli Glaciers. |
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| Day 11 | Calafate / Buenos Aires |
Transfer to the local airport to fly back to Buenos Aires. Arrival, assistance and transfer to the hotel. |
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| Day 12 | Buenos Aires / End of Trip |
Transfer to the International Airport to fly back home. End of our services. |
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Prices:
Conditions:
Hotels: Turist (3*sup+ 4*)
Superior (4*sup+ 5*)
Air Tickets (prices subject due to change because of oil increase):
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