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Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas
We will be welcomed at Puerto Montt airport and transferred to Puerto Varas. We will visit Puerto Varas and Puerto Montt. In Puerto Varas, also called City of Roses, we will visit houses built by the German colonizers at the beginning of the 20th century, and climb the Phillipi Hill.
In Puerto Mont, a city remarkable for its fishing and craft activity, we will visit the viewpoints and Puerto Angelmo, a traditional craftsmanship place.
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Frutillar
Breakfast at the hotel. We will visit Frutillar City. This is a beautiful town with reminiscence of Bavaria, from where the first colonizers were from. In 1856, this city became a shipping port, and soon tanneries, mills, beer factories, etc. were established. We will stroll around streets with beautiful and ancient German-style houses, watching the carefully maintained gardens and the incomparable view of Osorno and Puntiagudo volcanoes.
Also we will visit the German Colonial Museum that shows the life of the colonizers and also the Music Palace, where the famous Musical Weeks of Frutillar take place annually; people from around the world attend these concerts. We may taste the delicious and traditional "Onces Alemanas" (German dessert).
Optional: We can visit Edmundo Winkler Forest Reserve, and within a 30-minute walk we will get to see the tree species corresponding to the Valdivian forest; there we will have an idea of the landscape the colonizers found when they arrived at these lands.
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Lake Crossing in 1 day (from Puerto Montt)
Breakfast at the hotel. The Lake Crossing takes us directly to sail through the Andes, connecting Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas with Bariloche, by catamarans and ferries, and also short trips by bus.
The route starts in Puerto Montt or Puerto Varas up to Petrohué, where we will get on the 310-passenger catamaran that crosses Todos los Santos Lake to get to Peulla in about two hours. We will enjoy stunning views of Osorno and Calbuco Volcanoes which stand out in the landscape.
Then we will enter Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park where we will visit Petrohué Waterfalls, strange forms of volcanic rock covered with falls of emerald-color waters. Then we will get to Petrohué. We will start sailing along Todos los Santos Lake up to Peulla.
In Peulla we will take a bus that will take us along a winding road up to Puerto Frías, where we will cross the Argentinean borderland. We will sail Frías Lake up to Puerto Alegre. Then we will take another bus to get to Puerto Frías, where we will visit Cántaros Fall. In Puerto Blest we will take a catamaran to cross Nahuel Huapi Lake heading for Puerto Pañuelo in San Carlos de Bariloche.
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Bariloche - Big Circuit
Breakfast at the hotel. We will leave from Bariloche up to the west side of Nahuel Haupi Lake, crossing Limay River. We will get to Valle Encantado (Enchanted Valley), where we will be able to see rocky figures that, due to their shapes, are named God's finger, guard, express train, the Siamese, among others.
Then we will get to the confluence point of Traful and Limay Rivers. Before crossing the bridge over Traful River, we will take a pebble road going deep into the mountains and valleys, from where we will appreciate Cuyin Manzano and Minero Rivers.
Through beautiful colihues forests, we will skirt Traful Lake, 4km before reaching the villa of the same name. The road makes a sharp curve where, limited by a rustic log handrail, we will see Traful viewpoint over a cliff of more than 70m above the lake.
After passing by the village, you reach Puerto Arrayán and then El Portezuelo where the way converges with the road of the Seven Lakes.
Later we will cross Quintupuray, and skirting the Correntoso (Fast-flowing) Lake, we will reach Ruca Malen. Following the southern road and crossing dense forests, we will skirt the amazing Espejo (Mirror) Lake. The road around the Correntoso Lake, along 6km, and we will reach the juncture of Villa la Angostura. Finally we will go to Puerto Manzano skirting Huemul Branch; we will drive along a road with many elevations passing by Huemul Peninsula. |
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San Martín de Los Andes & 7 Lakes Circuit
Breakfast at the hotel. Whole day trip: 7 Lakes Circuit. We'll know Villa Traful & Villa La Angostura. We'll leave from Bariloche to Villa La Angostura and then to San Martín de los Andes. We'll go across Huemul's Peninsula, then we'll drive across Puerto Manzano, finally arriving to Villa La Angostura.
After a journey around Villa La Angostura, we'll leave to the Road of the Seven Lakes. The road is part over mountains and part inside coihues woods. We'll drive bordering Correntoso's Lake and it's river, up to El Portezuelo. Then we'll border the lakes Villarino, Falkner, Hermoso, Meliquina up to San Martin de los Andes, located on the shore of Lacar's Lake. Sleeping in San Martin de los Andes. |
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San Martin de los Andes - Lácar Lake Voyage
Breakfast at the hotel. We will set out at midday sailing along Lácar and Nonthué Lakes up to the headwaters of Hua Hum River, near the border with Chile. Setting out from the dock, we will go around the peninsula that closes the head of the lake: there we will see Paraje Trompul (Trompul Place), where we will find the Mapuche community.
Then we will cross Yuco Peninsula, where we will see the park ranger station, after that we will visit Santa Teresita and Duck's Island.
Lácar Lake is the only one in the basin that flows into the Pacific Ocean; we will get to a highly contrasting and scarsely deep narrows. The waters form the little Nonthué Lake; here we will disembark at Chachín Port, an ancient wood establishment from the beginning of the last century.
We will head for Chachín Cascade, which has almost 30 meters high fully overlooking the dense vegetation.
We will get on the ship again to head for Hua Hum quay, situated on the banks of Nonthué Lake, and it is named for the river that has its source in that lake, and flows into the Pacific Ocean. On our way back, we will see the ports of Pucará and Ruca Ñire, ancient wood establishment from almost a century ago when the economy of the region was based on this activity. |
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San Martín de los Andes
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to the airport of San Martín de los Andes. |
