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Overland Voyage National Park Torres del Paine - Tierra del Fuego

Patagonia, at the South of the world, far and distant place whose voyage fills your senses and it is a long lasting reminder for travellers in time. A trip through the Patagonia in our Overland lodge team is an imperative destination for those fond of adventure and nature and looking for unexplored places and with an outstanding beauty. We invite you to live a unique experience through the most beautiful and hidden National Parks in the Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Día 1. Punta Arenas - Otway Bay - Torres del Paine
Group meeting at 08:00. on Punta Arenas, Muñoz Gamero square. Departure to visit to the natural reserve “Otway Bay Penguins”. Stop in Puerto Natales. Lunch at the passengers’ expense.
In the afternoon, arrival at the National Park Torres del Paine, declared World Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO in 1978. Arrival in the Pehoe Camping. Camping.
Dinner and Accommodation

Día 2. Torres del Paine
Breakfast at the camping
Climbing to the Torres del Paine bottom. Departure in Overland to Las Torres small Hotel, from where it begins trekking through the Ascencio River, crossing the river through a bridge and, after four hours of walking, we arrive in a wonderful lagoon at the Torres del Paine bottom with certain difficulty.
Box Lunch for trekking.
In the afternoon, return to the camping
Dinner and accommodation

Día 3. Torres del Paine - Glaciar Grey
Breakfast at the camping area.
Day trekking to the Grey Lake in Overland. You can choose either sailing to the Grey Glacier or trekking through some of the paths along the place. Box lunch for trekking. Return to the camping in the afternoon.
Dinner and accommodation.

Día 4. Torres del Paine - Cueva del Milodón - Tierra del Fuego - Porvenir
Breakfast at the camping.
Departure to the National Park Torres del Paine in the morning. Visit to the natural monument Milodon Cave. Box Lunch on the way.
Travel to Punta Delgada, located in the first “Strait of Magellan” passage. During the trip, visit to the San Gregorio Farm, declared typical zone in 2001. Cross by ferry to Tierra del Fuego, to then continue along the road in between the Strait of Magellan and the Fuegian Pampas, where we will come across many bird species and arrive at Porvenir in the afternoon. Hotel accommodation and time to take a look over the small town of 6,000 inhabitants, capital of the Tierra del Fuego province.
Dinner and accommodation.

Día 5. Porvenir - Onaisin - Cameron - Lago Fagnano
Breakfast at the hotel
In the morning, departure from Porvenir to the road that surrounds the Inutil bay, with an extremely beautiful view and many cattle belonging to the different farms in the zone. A visit to Onaisin, a village created around the Josefina Cove limit, founded in 1893 by the Tierra del Fuego Operating Society. Box Lunch on the road. Visit to the Cameron village, from where we will go into the Fuegian Pampas and see huge herds of huanacos and towards the South, the Tierra del Fuego Mountain Range, where we will pass through the Despreciado and Deseado lakes to cross the Mountain Range and arrive, in the afternoon, to the Fagnano Lake, with a beautiful view to the Darwin Mountain Range.
Camping settling.
Dinner and accommodation.

Día 6. Lago Fagnano
Breakfast at the camping
Different activities at the bank of the Fagnano Lake. Box Lunch for trekking.
We can either choose a trekking to the Azopardo River, Fagnano’s Lake outlet towards the Almirantazgo Bay or through the Fuegian woods, woods that are now are been cut down and full of beavers, species brought from Canada by fur operators.
At the end of the day, a typical Fuegian “Barbecue”
Accommodation

Día 7. Lago Fagnano - Estancias Ganaderas de Tierra del Fuego - Porvenir
Breakfast at the camping.
Departure early in the morning to a farm, where you will see different farming operations and daily Tierra del Fuego habits. Box Lunch on the road. Camping settling.
Dinner and Accommodation

Día 8. Porvenir - Punta Arenas
Breakfast at the camping.
A trip across the Tierra del Fuego steppe, passing through different farms to reach the first narrowing. Arrive to Porvenir where we will cross the Strait of Magellan by ferry ( Around 2 ½ hours). Box Lunch
In the afternoon, arrival to Punta Arenas.

End of the services.

Details of excursions in the itinerary.

The Program Includes

• Full tour in the Overland.
• Coordinating Guide, support Guide and Satour driver, with wide experience in trips throughout the area.
• Accomodation:
  • Pehoe Camping, National Park Torres Del Paine (3 Nights)
  • España Hotel, Porvenir (1 Night)
  • Fagnano Lake Farm, Fagnano Lake (2 Nights)
  • Tierra del Fuego Farm (1 Night)
  • Camping accommodation in Doite tents, for 2 or 3 people, including self-inflatable light mattresses. For the passenger travelling alone, there will be a personal tent.
• Meals according to schedule.
• Passengers insurance in case of car accidents.
• All trips described on the program.
• Ferry ticket.

The Program does NOT Include

• Air ticket. Santiago – Punta Arenas – Santiago.
• Sleeping bag.
• Museums and National Park tickets.*
• Trips not specified on the program.
• Services not listed on the program
• All kinds of beverages, (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), outside the camping area.

*National Park tickets amount to around US$ 40 per passenger.

Equipment and Logistics

We have a group of people with wide experience, and with the appropriate vehicle, the required supplies and logistics necessary to make this adventure come true and discover the most hidden and marvellous places at the Southernmost Patagonia. Specialized tourist guide, driver for the whole trip, with unique knowledge of the road, and a guide in charge of the cooking stuff.

This adventure is carried out thoroughly with our Overland equipment which has the following features:

• “Overland” truck-bus; Mercedes Benz 1117.
• 16 armchairs in the passengers’ cabin, plus the driver’s, and guides in the front of the cabin. Individual sliding windows, full heating system, audio, radio system and microphones. Baggage car in the backside of the truck.
• Kitchen and full service equipment. Refrigerator, tables and stools for 16 people.
• Doite tents for 2 or 3 people with self-inflatable light mattresses and feather pillows.
• Manufactured in Germany to be used in every kind of soil and weather.
• Auxiliary kit equipment for soils in bad state.
• Fully equipped first aid kit.

Notes

Trips on Overland have a concept of harmony, cooperation participation, self-respect and the most important, tolerance with each other, so even though there is someone in charge of the kitchen, if you feel like helping, fell free in doing it. Setting tents is the responsibility of each passenger. Most Campings to be visited are the best ones.

Regarding meals, these include:
- Breakfast: cereals, yoghurt, bread, marmalade, cheese, milk, coffee, tea and herbs, amongst others things.
- Box lunch: It depends whether for the route or to be carried for trekking. For the former, it is based generally in a cold picnic, for instance, cold meat, potatoes, tuna, or vegetable tortillas, salads, soup or sandwiches prepared by passengers, plus beverages.
- The Box Lunch during the trip consists of sandwiches prepared by the own passengers after breakfast, fruit, cereals or chocolate bars and beverages.
- Dinner: the most important meal of the day. Including salads or hot soup, main course and dessert, with beverages.

As to the timetable, in the Patagonia, dawn takes place much earlier and for the fact of sleeping in tents, the trip begins early the morning. Likewise, daily activities require a good rest, so this implies leaving at a suitable time to have a proper rest and adequately sleep.

*Departures with 10 passengers minimum.

Rates

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Departures

Start: Saturday 26-Dec-2009
End: Saturday 02-Jan-2010

Start: Tuesday 05-Jan-2010
End: Tuesday 12-Jan-2010

Start: Wednesday 20-Jan-2010
End: Wednesday 27-Jan-2010

Start: Sunday 31-Ene-2010
End: Sunday 07-Feb-2010

Start: Wednesday 10-Feb-2010
End: Wednesday 17-Feb-2010

Valid Until

Valid until to February 17tht, 2010.