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El Calafate - El Chalten - Puerto Natales - Torres del Paine - Valle de Tierra Mayor - Ushuaia

Hiking Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine NP

13 Days

From 4953 USD

13 Days Trekking Group Adventure in Argentina and Chile - El Chalten and Torres del Paine

This adventure starts at El Calafate, visits Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, may be the two most emblematic mountains of Patagonia. We then move to the Perito Moreno Glacier (only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process) and Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. We eventually drive back to El Calafate.

This is a tour for those willing to enjoy Patagonia at a closer, deeper level, with a group where you will certainly make friends along the way. It has no demanding passages nor risky paths, and virtually anyone can take it, it just requires the will to approach this sort of tourism as a balanced mix of outdoors, comfort and nature caring.

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Our group tour in Patagonia will allow you to visit the most beautiful places in Patagonia in the company of great people
Prepare your eyes to see the most amazing landscape while trekking in El Chalten and Torres del Paine National Park
Camp in the national capital of trekking: El Chalten, Argentina and in Torres del Paine in Chile surrounded by nature to live a unique experience
Admire the views of two amazing national parks of South Patagonia
Visit one of the natural wonders of Patagonia Argentina: the amazing Perito Moreno Glacier and its rupture process

Itinerary

We welcome you at El Calafate airport and transfer to town to check in at your accommodation. You get the rest of the day to enjoy the town and later you have your welcome dinner.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: None
After breakfast we take our bus for the 220 km long drive to El Chaltén, a small and picturesque village at the foot of Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre massif. We make a stop half way to enjoy local pastries and hot coffee. Once in El Chaltén, we start our trek. We carry in our packs only the necessary items for these 2 nights and 3 days in which we’ll overnight in our Full Camps inside the National Park. What we don’t need is left behind at our office and you will find it back at your accommodation when we arrive back to El Chaltén on day 4. We hike up a gentle slope on Fitz Roy trail to gain height over the River de las Vueltas valley up to the first viewpoints over Fitz Roy massif, which we will first spot after a couple of hours walking. From these first viewpoints, another 2 hours of gentle walking across bogs and forests take us to our camp, from where we will enjoy a spectacular view of all the Fitz Roy group spires rising from the surrounding glaciers.

Lodging in Full Camp Poincenot - Double or Single Tent

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner

Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable igloo type tents for 1 or 2 passengers, with insulation mat and sleeping bags. The camp also features a spacious dinning tent, a kitchen tent, tables, benches or chairs and a full set of table service and kitchenware. The sanitary services are latrine-type (rural area).
Early in the morning, before the first coffee, we can try to match up the morning light getting pink in Fitz Roy granite walls. You only need this to feel the trip is worthwhile. But of course the day offers much more. After breakfast, carrying only day personal items such as our parka, gloves, our camera, water bottle and box lunch, we hike along Fitz Roy trail up to Rio Blanco, climbers basecamp to the east side of the mountain. From here a steep 1 hour trail leads us to one of the most spectaculars viewpoints of the National Park: Laguna de los Tres, with its zephyr blue color, lies at the foot of the massif, offering full close up views of Fitz Roy massif spires and glaciers.

Each wall raises something from 600 to 1500 mts above the surrounding glaciers. Fitz Roy, with its 3405 mts above sea level, is considered the “King of Patagonia” and also considered one of the three most beautiful mountains on Earth (together with Alpamayo in Perú and K2 in the Karakoram). We hike back to our camp in the late afternoon. Walking time is 5 to 6 hs.

Lodging in Full Camp Poincenot - Double or Single Tent

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner

Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable igloo type tents for 1 or 2 passengers, with insulation mat and sleeping bags. The camp also features a spacious dinning tent, a kitchen tent, tables, benches or chairs and a full set of table service and kitchenware. The sanitary services are latrine-type (rural area).
Today we walk south along Lagoons Madre and Hija Valley and down to Fitz Roy river valley, where we meet Cerro Torre trail. The trail runs along beech forest, bogs and shrubland and leads to Laguna Torre, enclosed by moraines and with Glacier Grande calving in its west side. It is usual to see icebergs pushed by the wind in the coast of the lagoon. The thin and elegant 3128 mts of Cerro Torre group and the Adela range in the background complete this spectacular view. In the afternoon we hike back to El Chalten along Cerro Torre trail.

Lodging in El Chalten - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
This mountain, 1500 mts tall, is located immediately south of Cerro Torre valley and offers some of the best views over the different group of mountains, glaciers and lakes that features the area. From the lower terraces to the summit, you can get spectacular views of Fitz Roy, Torre and the spectacular glacier valley in between both. From the summit the bonus is the sight of Paso del Viento and some of the mountains that stick out from the Patagonian Ice field. According to the group capacity, we choose the lower terraces or try the summit, a long but gentle climb in scree. The lower part of the mountain is covered by shrubland and forest. We are back in Chalten by late afternoon.

Lodging in El Chalten - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
This day is at leisure to visit the town or to go on optional excursions around the area. In the late afternoon, we return to El Calafate.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast
We dedicate this day to one of the World’s Natural Wonder: the Moreno glacier. This ice field- type glacier flows down from the Patagonian Icefield, a big sheet of ice that with its 22.000 square kilometers is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favorable local conditions, this glacier is the only one in the world that shows a closure and rupture process. The road leads to the very front of the glacier, which will be only meters away from your eyes. The roar of the chunks of ice falling inside the glacier or from the glacier into the lake, the frequent collapse of the front seracs into the turquoise water, makes out of this day a very special and unique experience.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast
Early start for a 6 hs drive to our camp in Paine. We drive across the Patagonic steppe, still following by parts the legendary route 40, to get around Sierra de los Baguales, an impressive range in between Calafate and Paine. We cross the Argentinean Chilean border at Cancha Carrera/ Cerro Castillo. After the border crossing, we start our final sprint to Paine National Park, World Heritage by the UNESCO (United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization). Approaching the Park, we start to see the different mountains that feature the area: Paine Grande, the Horns, Admiral Nieto and the Towers. Once we entered the Park, we go for a short 1 to 2 hs walk to get familiar with the landscape, the wind and the rich wildlife: guanacos, lesser rheas, condors and all types of wetland and buzzard birds will be available for our eyes and cameras. Also lots of flowers. Back in the bus, we reach our camp at the foot of Paine massif.

Lodging in Full Camp in Torres del Paine - Double or Single Tent

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner

Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. It offers comfortable igloo type tents for 1 or 2 passengers, with insulation mat and sleeping bags. The camp also features a spacious dinning tent, a kitchen tent, tables, benches or chairs and a full set of table service and kitchenware (area with sanitary services).
Early in the morning we start walking towards the bridge over the Ascensio river, head trail for the world-famous Paine towers. We "warm up" hiking a steep one hour slope, to get inside the valley itself, a narrow "V" shape alpine valley coming from inside the Paine massif. A gentle downhill leads us to Refugio Chileno, a cozy and comfortable mountain lodge, which can be a good turnaround point for those not willing to make a full day hike. We then walk in a gentle slope along the river side and inside beech forest. A final climb on moraine take us to the Towers viewpoint: a glacier origin lagoon and the three towers rising vertically 1000 mts from the glacier. The lack of breath will be either because the climb and the sight!!!! We go back to our camp.

Lodging in Full Camp in Torres del Paine - Double or Single Tent

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner
Early in the morning a 1 h drive takes us to Port Pudeto to board the catamaran that crosses Lake Pehoe twice a day. Once at the far side of the lake, we leave unnecessary items in our tents and we set out to the French Valley trail. The trail skirts Paine Grande south slopes and Lake Skottberg, to take us after 2 hs and a half of continuous ups and downs, to the hanging bridge upon the French River. This breathtaking location is at the foot of both the 2700 mts south east face of Paine Grande (to the west) and the Horns, with its characteristic black sedimentary topping, to the east. We continue walking 1 h further by Italian camp to reach breathtaking viewpoints over the area. After lunch and photos we retrace our steps back to Paine Grande Full Camp. Walking time: 5 to 6 hs.

Lodging in Full Camp in Torres del Paine - Double or Single Tent

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner
Lake Grey trail leads from Pehoe valley across ridges to reach Grey valley. This magnificent valley flows down 60 km from the Patagonian Icefield, featuring the huge glacier calving down in the grey colour lake. Our trail skirts the lake, going up and down the westerns slopes of Paine Grande, offering some of the most impressive sights of the Park. From the trail we can see the south end of the lake where the blue icebergs gather, the mountains rising far in the distance above glaciers Grey and Tyndall. We come back along the same trail, crossing bogs, shrublands and forest. Once again at Paine Grande Refuge we take the boat to cross lake Pehoe back and then we go to our accommodation in Puerto Natales, a picturesque fishermen town located in the shores of the Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) fiord.

Lodging in Puerto Natales - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch
Today we leave Puerto Natales, as our fellow travelers are going south to Ushuaia and we are getting back to the border to reenter Argentina and drive back to El Calafate. Upon arrival to El Calafate we have the rest of the day at your own to visit town.

Lodging in El Calafate - Double or Single Base

Included Meals: Breakfast
After breakfast we transfer to El Calafate airport where our services ends.

Meals: Breakfast

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What's Included

Share Room with Shared Bathroom

4 Nights Accommodation at Hostel Folk or similar - El Calafate, Double or Single Base

2 Nights Accommodation at Full Camp Base Fitz Roy - El Chalten, Double or Single Tent

2 Nights Accommodation at Hostel Rancho Grande or similar - El Chalten - Double or Single Base

3 Nights Accommodation at Full Camp inside Torres del Paine National Park - Double or Single Tent

1 Nights Accommodation at Hostel Natales or similar - Puerto Natales - Double or Single Base

Private Room - Double or Single Base

4 Nights Accommodation at Hotel Puerto San Julian or similar - El Calafate, Double or Single Base

2 Nights Accommodation at Full Camp Base Fitz Roy - El Chalten, Double or Single Tent

2 Nights Accommodation at Hotel Pudu Lodge or similar - El Chalten - Double or Single Base

3 Nights Accommodation at Full Camp inside Torres del Paine National Park - Double or Single Tent

1 Nights Accommodation at Hotel Francis Drake or similar - Puerto Natales - Double or Single Base
13 breakfasts, 8 lunch box and 4 dinners

This tour offers Vegetarian, Vegan and Kosher food options on request. Simply let People Travel and Experience know the food option that you prefer.
Incoming service

Bilingual tour leader (English – Spanish) for a group of 6 passengers or more

Mountain guides while on trek
• Incoming service

• Transfers from / to El Calafate Airport

• All nights Accommodations mentioned in the itinerary

• All the camping equipment (Tent, Sleeping Bag, Isolated)

• Bilingual tour leader (English – Spanish) when the group has 6 or more passengers.

• Transfer El Calafate - El Chalten - El Calafate - Torres del Paine - Puerto Natales - El Calafate

• Mountain Trekking Guide while on Trek in El Chalten and Torres del Paine

• Perito Moreno Glacier excursion

• During the trip we combine private and regular buses.

• 12 breakfast, 8 box lunch, 6 Dinners
All transfers El Calafate airport – El Calafate - El Chalten – El Calafate – Puerto Natales - Torres del Paine (Laguna Amarga) – Puerto Natales - Punta Arenas´s Airport

What's Not Included

Flights or airport taxes are non included
Medical and life insurance is not included in the price. We always suggest to all our passengers to buy an insurance when traveling anywhere in the world.
• Entrance fees to National Parks

• Medical and life insurance

• Tips

• Drinks and beverages (all meals are without alcoholic or non-alcoholic drinks)

• Flights or airport taxes

• Optional excursions.

• Services not shown or detailed in the program.
What's Not Included