South American Adventure - Argentina

South American Adventure - Argentina

PWT Torres Del Paine Adventure
7 days–6 nights (Moderate trek)

PWT Torres Del Paine Adventure 7 days–6 nights (Moderate trek)

PWT Torres Del Paine Adventure
7 days–6 nights (Moderate trek)

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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.

01	El Calafate Airport - El Calafate

02	El Calafate - Torres del Paine

03	Las Torres, Ascensio River Valley

04	Pehoe Lake Navigation. Del Frances Valley

05	Grey Glacier Viewpoints

06	Torres del Paine – Puerto Natales - El Calafate

07	El Calafate – El Calafate Airport

ITINERARY

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 Nordenskj�ld 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

SERVICE DETAILS

Included Services

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.

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	07
Breakfast
Lunch Box
Dinner

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

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(PWT 01) Inn double base with private bathroom

Full Camp double base (area with sanitarium services)

(PWT 02) Single Base Option