PWT
Torres Del Paine Adventure 7
days–6 nights (Moderate trek)
Departures:
Guaranteed All
Fridays
Season:
October to April
Starts
at: El
Calafate Airport
Ends
at: El
Calafate Airport
Group
Departures
This program
allow the passengers to
explore and discover the
Torres del Paine National
Park in Chile.
To do it we take advantage
of our strategically located
Full Camps in the Park’s
central points.
You have the Pre Tour
Extension Add In Perito
Moreno Glacier to visit the
Glacier one day before the
PWT tour starts.
Day
1 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
Day
2 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.
Day
3 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.
Day
4 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)
Day
5 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.
Day
6 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
Day
7 El Calafate - El
Calafate Airport
After breakfast we transfer to El Calafate
Airport where we end our services.
Meals Included: breakfast
Bilingual Spanish-English guides during all
the program’s activities.
Mountain Guides during the trekking
activities.
Pehoe Lake Navigation.
Transfer El Calafate Airport - El Calafate
– Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales –
El Calafate Airport.
6 breakfasts, 4 lunch boxes and 5 dinners,
as detailed in the chart below.
Base Accommodation (PWT 00) at Hostel Room
or Alternative Accommodation (PWT 01 or PWT
02) at Inn double or single base, according
to the following chart.
The PWT – Torres Del Paine Adventure tour
is offered in three different ways to lodge.
Base Accommodation
(PWT – 00) Hostel Room
The Base Offer (PWT 00) lodge as shown in
the following chart, at Hostel Room.
DAYS
01
02
03
04
05
06
(PWT 00) Hostel
Room with shared bathroom
Full Camp double base (area with
sanitarium services)
Accommodation (PWT
– 01 and PWT- 02) Inn Double or
Single Base
These Offers lodge as shown in the following
chart, in double base (PWT 01) or single
base (PWT 02) in the days when this option
is available.
They differ from the previous one that they
go to an Inn, not to a Hostel. When you
choose single base, you have single base
accommodations at the Full Camp Tents too.
DAYS
01
02
03
04
05
06
(PWT 01) Inn
double base with private bathroom
Full Camp double base (area with
sanitarium services)
(PWT 02) Single
Base Option
Meals
Meals included in the program are detailed
in the following chart.
DAYS
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
Breakfast
Lunch Box
Dinner
Meeting Point
The Meeting Point for the Group on Day 1 is
at 7 pm at the Hostal del Lago Libertador,
Del Libertador 587, El Calafate. This
Meeting Point can be modified and will be
confirmed when confirming the booking for
the passenger.
Services
Not Included
Entrance ticket to Torres del Paine National
Park
Medical and Life Insurance
Tips
Air flight tickets and Airport fees and
taxes
Services not detailed in the program