Fitzroy and Perito Moreno Adventure Tour
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The Fitz Roy Perito Moreno Glacier Adventure tour is an unforgettable trekking tour exploring the Mount Fitz Roy area and the deep blue of the Perito Moreno Glacier at Los Glaciares National Park. This Tour is oriented to all who wish to visit Patagonia in a closer and intimate way, being part of a group where they surely will find new friends. It doesn't have big demands or risky steps and it can be enjoyed by practically everybody. It only requires the desire of liking the balance of the outdoors, the comfort, and the care of the natural areas.
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Day 1 El Calafate airport – El Calafate
We welcome you at Calafate airport and transfer to town to check in at your hostel. In the evening, discuss details of your program and enjoy your welcome dinner together with your fellow travellers. Lodging in a lodge, double or single room with private bathroom. Meals we provide: Dinner. Day 2 Bus to El Chaltén – Camp Poincenot 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. Lodging: Full Camp Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner Full Camps are pitched up early in the season, so we find the camp ready upon arrival. The Camp is pre-assembled with large igloo-type tents that are used on a double or single basis. Within them, each passenger is provided with an insulating mat and a high mountain sleeping bag. The camp has a kitchen and a dining room with a table, benches and dishes. The toilets are organized through a latrine bath system. (rugged area) Day 3 Cerro Fitz Roy - Laguna de los Tres 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. We start the day carrying only our coat, food, water bottle and camera, always with the background views of the needles of the Fitz Roy massif. We arrived at the Fitz Roy Base Camp called Rio Blanco. From here a steep climb of an hour and a half takes us to one of the most spectacular viewpoints of the park: Laguna de los Tres. This hill and its needles rise in front of us about 1500 meters above the surrounding glaciers. The Fitz Roy Hill is considered one of the three most spectacular mountains in the world, along with the Alpamayo Hill in Peru and the K2 in Karakoram. In the afternoon we return to our camp. (Approx. 5 hours) Lodging: Full Camp Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch, Dinner Day 4 Cerro Torre – El Chalten In the morning we walk south to join the path that runs through the Valley of the Mother and Daughter Lagoons. Crossing a thick forest and areas of mallines, we descend to the Cerro Torre Valley, where the Fitz Roy River runs, which we traced until its birth in Laguna Torre. This lagoon enclosed between brunettes generally piles icebergs that come off the Great Glacier, which falls at its western end. The impressive group of needles of Cerro Torre, with its slender 3128 meters high, frame the landscape. We travel around the Laguna Tower with views of Solo Hill and Adela Glacier. At sunset we return to El Chalten along the Torre trail. Lodging: Lodge Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch Day 5 El Chalten – Loma del Pliegue Tumbado This hill, located immediately south of the Fitz Roy River and closing the Tower Valley on that side, offers some of the most beautiful views over the area's mountains, including the Fitz Roy, the Tower and its valleys and glaciers. We walk through steppe, thicket and forest until we reach the intermediate viewpoints of the mountain, from where we will have panoramic views of the park. In the afternoon we return to El Chalten Lodging: Lodge Provided meals: Breakfast, Box Lunch Day 6 El Chalten – El Calafate Morning at your own to visit the picturesque village or to make optional excursions such as Lago del Desierto (in spite of its name, its a beautiful, beech forest surrounded lake, with hanging glaciers in its west side), or to see very interesting information at the National Park Visitor Centre. In the afternoon we take our bus to our next destination, El Calafate, gateway for the glaciers area of the Park. Arrival time in the evening . Driving distance: 220 km Lodging in a lodge Meals we provide: Breakfast. Day 7 El Calafate – Perito Moreno Glacier 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 kilometres is the third largest glacier area in the world, after Antarctica (14 M sq km) and Greenland (1 M sq km). Because unusual favourable 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. A beautiful, short trail, will lead us from the shores of the lake to the upper viewpoints. 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. We will drive 80 km (1 and a half hour) to get and come back from the glacier across the steppe, watching a wide variety of birds. Lodging in a lodge Meals we provide: Breakfast. Day 8 El Calafate - Aeropuerto El Calafate Alter breakfast we transfer to El Calafate airport where our services ends. Meals we provide: Breakfast. To book the trip send your request by email. Once we confirm space, we will send a link and booking form so you can make a deposit in our account for 10% of the trip value. The balance is due 30 days prior to departure.
Terms and Conditions All prices are subject to change without notice. Departures with less than 6 passengers include: Incoming Services and Mountain Guide during treks in Los Glaciares and Torres del Paine National Park. Departures with 6 or more passengers include: Mountain Guide during treks in Los Glaciares and Torres del Paine National Park and bilingual tour leader at El Calafate, El Chalten and Torres del Paine. Cancellation charges 60 Days prior to the departure: 20%** 59 - 30 Days prior to the departure: 40% 29 - 16 Days prior to the departure: 60% Less than 15 days prior to the departure: 100% ** This 20% can be transferred to other reservation. Travel Suspension or Interruption: If operator cancels a tour for cause of Force Majeure, not providing the contracted services, a credit note for the total of the amount will be provided to our clients. In case of a refund request, unrecoverable costs will be deducted. If a tour is interrupted for cause of Force Majeure, operator will provide an alternative itinerary to replace the services that can not be provided. Operator will not be responsible for potential extra costs regarding travel suspension or interruption for cause of Force Majeure Limitations of liability Our services don't include medical insurance nor life insurance. It's passenger's responsibility to contract his/her medical and life insurances previous to the start of the trip. Our trips are developed in zones far from big urban cities. Medical Services and other kind of services could be far from where the passengers are located in a specific moment. Operator will make all the efforts to reinforce and guarantee the security and well being of all the passengers. Terms and Conditions Each passenger accepts, when booking his/her trip with us, to be clear about the potential risks associated with this type of tourism. Operator will refuse any claim or responsibility related to accidents, damages, illness, negligence, physical or mental damage. Operator will not be held responsible for the delays and eventually extra costs due to Force Majeure: illness, weather conditions, war, terrorism, political events, natural disasters, technical difficulties, epidemic, pandemic, new requirements of any government or any other cause out of our or our supplier's control. When contracting your trip, the passenger and the travel agent accept that the total value from all the potential claims that eventually could be made, have a maximum value set by twice the total amount of money paid for the trip Health, safety and hygiene measures for Covid 19 Group management: We reduce from 15 to 10 the maximum of passengers in our regular departures. We implement social distancing and safety protocols. Once our passengers arrive at their first destination, we will do a screening to check the health of all the members of the group and provide safety guidelines before joining the group. All our staff will be trained with group management techniques and protocols to reinforce safety of all the member of the group and staff. Transport and Excursions: Our tour combines private and semi-private transportation that will reduce their capacity. We guaranteed a free seat between passengers that do not share booking/room. Drivers will take all the necessary precautions to clean and sanitize the vehicles. Accommodation: All the members of the group will be in the same hotel in each destination. We will use small accommodations that reduce contact with the staff of the hotel but always available to provide assistance Breakfast will be provided in the rooms or at the restaurant with reduced capacity and no buffet service. As long as we cannot guarantee safety measures in hostels, we will not sell hostels in shared room and bathroom tours. We drastically reduce our single base rates so our solo travelers can still join a group at a reasonable fare. Trekking Activities: We will keep social distancing at all times and we will encourage the use of masks in reduced areas where social distancing is not possible. |
INCLUDED:
Bilingual tour leader during all the trip. Mountain guides while on trek. Moreno Glacier excursion. All transfers El Calafate airport – El Calafate - El Chalten – El Calafate – El Calafate airport. During the trip we combine private and regular buses. 5 nights in Hotel or lodge, 2 nights in Full Camp 7 breakfasts, 4 box lunch and 3 dinners. NOT INCLUDED: Entrance fees to National Parks. Medical and life insurance. Tips. Drinks and beverages (all foods are without alcoholic or non alcoholic drinks). Flights or airport taxes. Optional excursions. Services not shown or detailed in the program. Accommodations Description Full Camp is a camp previously mounted with wide igloo type tents we use in double or single base. Inside it each passenger has high mountain sleeping bags, individual sheets and insulating mattresses. The Full Camp comes with dining room tents, table, benches and complete kitchen with a cook in charge. Sanitary services in Capri Lagoon are solved with chemical bathrooms and Camp Pehoe has bathroom facilities. Lodge: It's a room at a lodge/hotel with private bathroom. It can be double or single base, depending your choice. Details of Food During the periods that we lodge in camp the four foods are served in abundant form achieving a menu that contemplate the tastes of the passengers but also their energy necessities, based on fresh foods. Breakfasts: We provide hot water and options to choose like tea, coffee and milk; accompanied by cookies, sweet, fruits and cereals. Lunches: They consist on a main plate and dessert or a lunch box that is enjoyed in a panoramic point; always accompanied with juices. The lunch box is compound by a potent salad or a sandwich, accompanied by a fruit and a candy or chocolate. Snacks:Infusions to election with cakes or cookies They are served when people return of the walks. Dinners: It includes Entrance (salads or soups), Main Plate (pasta, rice with squids, meats, stews, etc.), and Desserts as Pears with chocolate, Fruits, Fondue, accompanied by juice, wine and later the coffee. During the periods when passenger lodges at hostel or hotel the beverages are not included. Group's Size Usually our groups are between 8 to 10 people, with a maximum of 10. Guides and Coordination All groups have assistance from their arrival to El Calafate. All the groups will be guided by a professional Mountain Guide, who belongs to the Argentine Association of Mountain Guides and authorized by National Parks, in the journeys that requires it. Activities You will walk along a unique landscape, among lakes, mountains and glaciers, and the idea is to enjoy the journey, so there are no rush or hurries, no difficulties neither risky steps. When trekking in the El Chalten zone, where people spend two nights in Full Camp in Capri Lagoon, each person will carry his/her light backpack, only with personal equipment necessary for those two nights. The rest of the luggage will be stored in individual bags in the place where lodging in El Chalten, where we return after those two nights. We always walk slowly with some rests, enjoying the landscape and the environment while walking, with time to discover the flora and the fauna of the area. Although it's a mount region, the average altitude of our trekking will be 450 meters, with a maximum possible altitude to reach of 1500 meters, which should not negatively affect reasonably fit hikers. Security The trip doesn't include medical assistance. The guides will carry a basic first-aid kit along the walks and VHF communication equipment for any emergency that could take place. Transport Transport will be done combining private and regular services. 2024-2025 dates and prices per person in US$:
Holiday Supplement: Departures that include any of the following nights will have a supplement of USD 200.00 per person in all basis: December 24th, December 25th, December 31th and January 1st.
"The trip was very nice. There was a bunch from people from Europe (the majority of the group was from Europe) and they continued on to Ushuaia. But the Argentina part (my part) was very sweet – the weather and the places.…Thank you for checking!" Natalia "Thank you for reaching out. The trip was excellent! All logistics for this portion of our trip went very smoothly and we especially enjoyed our guide Julia for the camping and hiking portion of the trip. We'd love to return someday. We also got pretty lucky with the weather. It is definitely "wild" Patagonia!" Jessie |
