Patagonia Lakes & Forest Glamping

Your private guide will be at Ezeiza International Airport ready to give you a kind welcome to Buenos Aires, helping you to familiarize with Argentina and answering any question you might have about your trip plan.

After a private ride of one hour approximately, you will be arriving at the selected hotel.

Check in and have the rest of the day at leisure to explore the city on your own.

Overnight: Madero Hotel

Pick up at the hotel and private transfer to the airport for a flight to Esquel.

Upon arrival, you will be driven to Huemules Mountain Reserve, situated in the middle of nowhere. Surrounding you with complete silence and nature. Huemules’s main goal is to bring you an experience completely in cooperation with nature, accommodating few people in very private domes.

They also focus on being an eco-friendly project, recycling, minimum plastics, “zero-trash” concept, native forests, etc.

This is a place that is very special and unique, that not many get the chance to visit due to its tricky access.

The journey there will be long so you will have the evening free to walk around, discover and later in the evening enjoy a nice meal included at the Reserve. Your itinerary includes an all-exclusive program at the reserve, meaning full board and guided excursions throughout your stay.

The Patagonian flavors will mark a difference from the food you are used to back at home.

Their ideology at Huemules is that meal times are the best moment to regroup and regain energy, thus supplying all the best food to celebrate all the earthly activities done throughout the day. The chefs specialize in showing you traditional and new techniques during each meal.

Overnight: Huemules Mountain Reserve

To explore lenga and ñire forests, climb snowy mountains, cross melting streams and discover new landscapes of the imposing Patagonia at every step. In the tours we can see different species of local fauna: woodpeckers, caiquens, condors, foxes and deer, among other species.

On the first leg of this excursion, you will traverse forests, prairies and creeks, ascending during the whole journey along a smooth upward slope until you reach an old outpost located in a small valley, where you’ll make the first stop in the old cattle farmyard. From then on the ascent is made along a steep slope on the lenga forest; at first at a very high altitude but then at a lower height until reaching an elevation of 1600 m. From there, you will continue climbing until the ridge where you will be able to enjoy breathtaking panoramic views towards the West and South that include the snowcapped peaks of the Cordillera de los Andes, the southernmost tip of the Fuatalaufquen Lake and, towards the South, the Trafipan and Larga lakes together with the 16de Octubre valley.

Breakfast: To start the morning with energies we offer a typical buffet breakfast with hot infusions and freshly squeezed seasonal juices. We have a selection of a la carte eggs and croissants, homemade breads and jams along with cereals, yogurts and fruits from the region.

Lunch: It is the rest between activities and always enjoying nature, lunches in Huemules are an invitation to know and enjoy the typical Patagonian cooking techniques where the protagonist is fire. Lamb to the cross, typical Argentine roast accompanied by seasonal vegetables and vegetable salads from our garden are an example of what we offer to recharge and continue enjoying the day in the mountains.

Snack time: Upon arrival of the excursions, in the warm atmosphere of the restaurant, the snack will allow us to recover forces with hot infusions, fine doughs, chocolates and fruits, which will help us relax and start sharing experiences and prepare to live the magical sunsets.

Dinner: For dinner we offer the regional dishes characteristic of Patagonia, native products, steer meat and Patagonian lamb, trout, game meat, prepared respecting traditional and local recipes. All accompanied by an exquisite selection of Patagonian wines and the world to celebrate the day lived in nature.

Overnight: Huemules Mountain Reserve

Today you will enjoy a full day of horseback riding through the forests of the Huemules Reserve.

The first leg of the ride takes place in the low canyon of the Huemules creek, in a moderately slanted slope until you reach the old mine.

At that point, you will start a steep zigzag ascent on the hillside towards the ridge, and reach the perfect place for the animals to rest.

At that point you will be able to enjoy wonderful views of the East and West and luckily, have the unique possibility of seeing wild condors.

The return hike is actually done through a steep downward slope towards the old Huemules Norte reservoir, where you’ll start the final descent traversing winding creeks fed by melting snow that form incredible vertical waterfalls to finally retake the mining trail that traverses the forests until the base.

• Breakfast, lunch & dinner included.

Overnight: Huemules Mountain Reserve

Change of scenary: today you will drive all the way to Puyuhuapi located in Chile, passing through Futaleufu.

Just the drive there is considered a complete immersive experience, disconnecting with everything and disappearing into the Fjords of Patagonia. The Puyuhuapi lodge is only accessible by water, emerging you into the depths of the earth.

Even though this is the only way getting to your Lodge, the 6-hour drive there is considered to be a complete full day excursion, driving through dozens of different landscapes and arriving in a place of well-being, adventure, disconnect and love and respect of the environment.

The setting offered by the fjords and Queulat National Park are sublime, while the extraordinary botanical variation, the summits and snowdrifts are terrific.

Navigate the quiet waters using sea kayaks, through channels and between islands, looking out for bird colonies and marine mammals like sea lions and bottlenose dolphins, or walk through semi-magical, fairy-tale like forests with lichens, fungi, mosses, ferns and flowers, before taking in spectacular views of the area, where the glaciers and lakes are the protagonists.

Back at the lodge, you can enjoy the thermal waters and complete spa offering of relaxing massages and thalassotherapy sessions to unwind after a day full of excursions and impressions. Refined gastronomy with regional, fresh seafood and vegetables from our own greenhouse, along with a selection of fine Chilean wines, round off the day’s experience. At night, don´t miss the outside hot-spring pools under Patagonian skies.

Today you will be served breakfast at Hueumules before departing and will bring a lunch box along with you for the long road, stopping in the middle of the journey to have lunch in front of breathtaking views.

Dinner will be served at the lodge.

The gastronomy in is defined as a fusion of flavors that mix typical Patagonian and Chilean preparations with Mediterranean cooking, renowned for its fine preparations with fresh products extracted from the Patagonian fjords, like king crab, salmon, southern hake, and king clip (congrio), and by its lamb reared in the neighboring meadows.

With the aim of optimizing supply logistics, the exquisite and delicate daily menus are made up of two alternatives that include starter, main course and dessert, where products, flavors, textures and colors are combined, and all this accompanied by a fine selection of Chilean wines.

We grow vegetables and herbs in our own greenhouse, and we use local products like rosehip, redcurrant, nalca, rhubarb, calafate, and cherries

Overnight: Puyuhuapi Lodge & Spa

This trip starts by crossing the fjord in a motorboat to our pier on Carretera Austral.

Then you shall continue during 15 minutes in a vehicle to the Ventisquero Colgante area of Queulat National Park.

The Ventisquero River runs throughout the glacial moraine valley molded by the Hanging Glacier.

At short distance from the area’s authorized parking area, and after having passed the hanging bridge that crosses the river, the path that penetrates the beginning of the woods opens out and then goes round the valley created by the moraine.

• Duration: Half-day
• Difficulty: Medium
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included today.

Overnight: Puyuhuapi Lodge & Spa

With extraordinary botanical variation, this path is located on one of the highest points of the Carretera Austral.

A one-hour drive is needed from the jetty of the Lodge.

The extensive and steep snowcaps of Queulat, together with the damp vegetation that cover the lower valleys, represent the spirit of this journey.

The summits and snowdrifts are amazing on the slopes located to the south of Queulat National Park.

The walk starts by penetrating through the lush forest in which you find bizarre lichens, fungi, mosses, algae, ferns, and numerous flowers that accompany this route.

The path advances for almost 2 km before reaching the Cascadas River.

The road continues across the valley, which offers spectacular panoramas of the area.

Then Los Gnomos Lagoon appears, from which the river is born.

The shores are approached by an impressive and steep granite structure upon which the snowdrift sits. The footprints of time can be recognized on the rocks, following the movement of the mass. Often some chunks of the millenary ice fall into the lagoon.

• Duration: Half- to full-day
• Difficulty: Medium to High
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner are included today.

Overnight: Puyuhuapi Lodge & Spa

Today you go to the Balmaceda Airport from where you can take a flight to Santiago de Chile. Breakfast will be served at the Puyuhuapi Lodge before departure.

Arrival in Santiago de Chile and transfer to your selected hotel.

Overnight: Le Reve Boutique Hotel

At indicated time, pick up at your hotel and private transfer to Santiago International Airport to take you flight back.

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