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Trips from Puerto Aisén |
To
the National Park ‘Laguna San Rafael’ via marine:
there are two alternatives to carry out this trip. The most economic
is coming to an agreement with the owners of those “schooners”
that supply the residents of the islands that leave from Puerto
Palos or Puerto Aguas Muertas, in Aisén. And the most expensive
in ships that have different categories of passengers, some with
deluxe equipment that leave from Puerto Chacabuco, 14 kilometers
away of Puerto Aisén. In short it depends on the capacity
of the pocket of each one but the final objective is the same
one: “to be able to contemplate southern landscapes that
besides being only in the planet, they are of an indescribable
beauty.” The trips come out by the fiord Aisén and
they travel channels, bays, estuaries, surrounded by forested
hills. They also stop in some thermal baths. Until when arriving
to the south end of the channel Moraleda they overcome the river
Témpanos and they enter in the Lagoon San Rafael. In this
there are floating floes and the spectacular Snowdrift San Rafael
that is part of the Field of Ice San Valentine. During the journey
among pieces of ice in front of the snowdrift you will be able
to see detachments that will make you shiver. |
Trips
from Puerto Cisnes |
Until
La Junta by the National Park Queulat: leave from Puerto
Cisnes toward the east skirting the river Cisnes. In the kilometer
35 there is a crossing; to the right the road takes to Puerto
Aisén or Coyhaique. Take the one on the way to the left
and in that moment you will enter to the National Park Queulat.
From the aforementioned crossing there are 59 kilometers until
Puerto Puyuhuapi by an unforgettable road. 8 kilometers after
the crossing you will go by the bridge over the river Cisnes and
later on you will be able to see toward the sea the valley of
the river Cisnes, surrounded of hills covered with glaciers. To
the 76 kilometers from the starting point you will go by the Portezuelo
Queulat, the highest point in the road and it will begin to lower
by the famous Hill Queulat, from where you can see the Jump Padre
García (30 meters) and the big wall of Glaciers. You will
travel 9 kilometers in slope seeing astonishing landscapes. Then
the road comes closer to the sea and 18 kilometers later on you
will find a deviation of almost 3 kilometers from where you can
see a solid of snowdrifts, among which it stands out the ‘Ventisquero
Colgante’ (hanging snowdrift). Return to the main road.
13 kilometers before arriving to Puerto Puyuhuapi, in the coast
of the breast Ventisquero, you will find a pier to cross in just
10 minutes to the other bank and to visit the fabulous Thermal
baths of Puyuhuapi Hotel & Spa. Located in the beautiful Bay
Dorita of the breast Ventisquero with pools at the sea level,
hydro-massage with seawater, first class rooms, restaurant, roofed
pool, trips and the possibility to visit the Lagoon San Rafael
in the day, on board of the catamaran Patagonia Express. A complex
of first level located in a fantastic place. We continue traveling
13 kilometers and we arrive to Puerto Puyuhuapi in the north end
of the breast Ventisquero. There we recommend to visit the factory
of carpets that has been founded by an immigrant in 1945 and that
today it still continues maintaining a handmade quality. Leaving
Puerto Puyuhuapi and after 5 kilometers the road skirts the lake
Risopatrón during 12 kilometers, until arriving to the
drainage of the river Risopatrón in the lake. Just there
amid the forest, they are the Cabins El Pangue, very well installed
and from where they are organized a series of fishing trips and
to horse. 28 more kilometers and you will have arrived to La Junta,
1,000 inhabitants' town with all the tourist services. From La
Junta you can go to Lago Verde in the limit with Argentina or
to descend by the River Palena until the Port Raúl Marín
Balmaceda in the coast of the interior sea. |
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