Punta Arenas - Magdalene Island
Breakfast at the hotel. Punta Arenas was the first significantly populated town in Southern Patagonia. It was established on December 18, 1948. Soon it became the most important cultural, industrial, commercial and stock center in the region. We will visit the Salesian museum Maggiorino Borgatello, where we can find an important collection of Magellan wildlife specimens, folklore relics and crafts made by Tierra del Fuego native people such as yamanas, selk'nam and kaweskar aborigenes.
Magdalene Island and Marta Inlet are the perfect places to watch typical fauna: especially penguins, cormorants and seals. This is the natural habitat par excellence of more than 100,000 Magellan penguins and one of the biggest penguin rookeries of the Chilean Patagonia.
We will sail along the Strait of Magellan to get to Magdalene Island, where we can enjoy panoramic views of Punta Arenas, Tierra del Fuego plains and oilfields in Cape Black and Laredo Bay.
While trekking we will see penguins and their hiding places along the coast up to the highest place in the island, where is the lighthouse in which the Environment Interpretive Center is, where we can read about the history of the strait and local fauna.
Transfer to Puerto Natales.
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