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Your
trip in Patagonia. Our regulars group goes from 2
to 8 customers. When you book with us, we ensure
your departure date, even if you go alone. So
you can schedule your vacation with us and book
all your flights with certainty. We are probably
the only company out our trips are 100%
guaranteed without a required minimum of clients
per trip. How to arrive to South Patagonia. Best
connection for arrive to Torres del Paine is
through Punta Arenas (Chile) or through El
Calafate (Argentina) If you
arrive to Chile, through Santiago airport (SCL),
you must connect flight to Punta Arenas city
(PUQ). Lan Airline and Sky airline cover this
route. Other option in Chile is from Puerto Montt,
there are a boat that once a week navigate until
Puerto Natales in a 3 days trip. From Buenos
Aires, you need to have a connection flight to
El Calafate. Once in Calafate, transfer to down
town to take a regular bus to Puerto Natales,
where our guide will wait for you at bus station
and drive you to our Hotel. Arrival at Punta Arenas Airport. Our regular trip starts in Punta
Arenas (Chile), where our guide will wait at the
airport Ibanez (PUQ). Just tell us your arrival
flight information in order to pick you up on
time. If you are already in Punta Arenas, we
will pick you up at hotel address where you are
staying. After this, we will drive to
Puerto Natales, 260 km north of Punta Arenas.
Here you will be accommodate in our hotel, where
we will check your personal trekking equipment
according our equipment list (see our equipment
list attached in our trip information program).
Flights. There are two main airlines that
travel to Punta Arenas from Santiago or Puerto
Montt. Sky Airline also has a new flight
direct to Puerto Natales, twice a week !! LAN airline, www.lan.com SKY airline. www.skyairline.cl
Please check itineraries of these
flights. We recommend to arrive to Punta Arenas
in any flight between 10:50 am to 18:00pm. After
finish your trekking trip, we recommend to
depart in any flight after 11:00am. if you
already have a flight that depart too early
morning, we can book a hotel night in Punta
Arenas, instead Puerto Natales. Due internal flights Santiago -
Punta Arenas - Santiago, price could be
different depending from where you are buying,
we can buy it cheaper from here, and include it
in the final price of our services. Ask us for
this price option. El Calafate Airport. If you choose to arrive through
Argentina, check price list for your flight to
El Calafate, that is the closer Argentinean
airport to reach Torres del Paine. LAN airlines, www.lan.com Aerolineas Argentinas, www.aerolieneas.com.ar
If you arrive to El Calafate, from
here best alternative to go to Puerto Natales is
to take a regular bus from Calafate down town
(address Av. Julio A. Roca 1004, Calafate). This
transfer take around 5 hours to Puerto Natales.
Upon your arrival, our guide will be waiting for
you at Puerto Natales bus station and transfer
you at the place for lodging. Buses companies that offer this
transportation are Cootra and Zaahj.
They cover this route every day from El Calafate
bus station. If you need, we can buy for you
this bus ticket and include in trip price, and
will be available at the bus station office
under your name. Approximate price USD$ 35 one
way. Puerto Natales. In Puerto Natales hotel, you can
leave all not necessary gear for your trekking
days. Leave it in a bag, and we will storage it
safely (please use a lock). If you does not have
a bag, we can provide it one. If you need to buy or rent some
extra equipment for your trekking trip, we have
it available for rent such as, back packs,
trekking poles and sleeping bags. If you need
some extra equipment, please check equipment
list provided in our program and let us know
this in our application form. Food. In
some of our campsites, we organize our own meal
services, with our own kitchen and dinner tents.
Our meals are varied and well chosen. Fresh and
delicious food is always available in our camp.
Vegetables, fruit, meat, chicken and even fish
are among our menu, as well as pastas, rice,
potatoes rich in carbohydrates. Wine, coke,
beer, biscuits, cheese, crackers and everything
we need to make our trip pleasant When
we have small groups, we use refuge services for
our meals. These regular services are improved
by our staff with extra food, to make your trip
experience more comfortable. Trail
food: We provide each day enough food for
walking hours.
In your back pack, you just need to carry
a day food and water bottle. For next days, our
guide will supply extra food. If you do not eat any type of
food, or you need a special diet like gluten
free food, please indicate it in our application
form. Water. Drink water from most of the
creeks in Torres del Paine are very safe. This
water does not require pollution treatment, just
refill your bottle and drink. Water runs from
snow patches where are located not far away from
paths, so most of these creeks are very clean.
In some places near Las Torres refuge, we could
find some cattle, so be avoid to take water from
these creeks near them. Back
pack. In
all our trips, in your back pack you just need
to carry your own personal things, clothes and
sleeping bag and mat, plus a bottle of water and
trail food. We recommend you to bring for
trekking days, just necessary things.
Mountaineering and trekking clothes are designed
to be used several days, so is not necessary to
change it every day. Also,
technical clothes are very lightweight and dry
very quickly. Leave
in Puerto Natales heavy jeans, cotton shirts.
They does not work well in wet conditions, and
it take long time to get dry and get very heavy
when are wet. All common gear such as tents
extra food and other camp material will be
carried by our porters. Porters. In
our Torres del Paine trips, porter for carry
common gear is include. This common trekking
equipment are tents, some kitchen gear and also
food for our trip (dinners, breakfast and trail
food) If
you have extra personal load to carry, like
cameras, extra clothes or if you want to carry a
minimal weight, you can hire a porter. That man,
can carry in his pack around 15-20kg. Of course,
this weight limits, depends of volume of your
things. For example, if you bring a too big
sleeping bag, this will limit room for other
things into the porter`s back pack. For
complete Big Paine Circuit (10 days trip), you
need a 7 days carrying a big bag pack For
W Circuit trip, you need a 3 days porter. Price for a day personal porter
is USD$ 140.- This fee cover porter salary and
all expenses such as transportation to the park,
camps and his food. Sleeping
bag. In
Torres del Paine you need to be prepare for
significant variations of temperatures. For this
reason bring a comfortable sleeping bag, with
temperature minimum of -10ºC (14 F). Also
if this trip include a refuge night, sleeping
bags are also necessary. We provide a mattress (foam or
inflatable) for your trip when we sleep in
tents. This will be carried in your pack. Tents
and common gear. For
our trekking trips in Patagonia, in our camps we
use a tent designed for 3 people, but used for
two. Guide and/or porters will carry tents and
common gear such as stoves, pots and food. Guide
and porters will set up your tent for each
campsite. If
you would like to use a single tent, please
indicate this option in our application form. We use Mountain Hard Wear and
REI sleeping tents. We also use for dinner a
dome tent (Space Station or Strong Hold tents,
from Mountain Hard Wear brand). We also include
in it all tables and chairs. Refuges. Refuges
offer common rooms for 6 people. Does not offer
a private room (except Cuernos cabins). In these
rooms sleeps men and/or women. Refuges have two
main bathroom-toilette services, one for men and
one for women. Normally hot showers are
available in refuges. Bring a towel and light
sandals. Beds have just a mattress, so you need
to bring your own sleeping bag or rent it. About electricity, refuges do
not have electricity for charge batteries. Some
of them have solar source and if in some moment
they are not using it, they can provide you
electricity power to charge batteries. Money. About weather. Patagonia and
specially Torres del Paine does not have a
determined climate, are rather unstable, mainly
in the proximity to the South Ice Field, places
that registers the lowest temperatures and
register a more intense rainfall. This also can
be in snow type. However the Pampa sector
located at east side of the park (dry zone)
register less rainfall and low humidity
conditions. Temperatures also feel higher,
reaching also 20°C. in some sunny days.
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