Torres del Paine Basecamp Tour
Puerto Natales, Chile
Trip Highlights
- New Trip Offering
- Towering Granite Spires
- World Class Hikes
- Premier Camping
- World famous National Park
- Glaciers & Lakes
- Amazing Natural & Cultural History
- Scenic Boat Shuttles
Description
Torres del Paine National Park is one of the most pristine and remote wilderness areas the world. Our Patagonia Basecamp Tour allows us to explore the Parks world-class hikes while enjoying some of its world class campgrounds. The dramatic granite towers and spires will draw you in, and in you shall go! The “TDP” basecamp will take you along the shores of stunning glacial lakes encompassing electric blue icebergs. You will experience sheer rock spires as tall as the sky and the magnificent, southern Patagonian ice cap. A scenic boat shuttle will get you up close to the famed Grey Glacier on our last day!
The beauty of this raw and dramatic landscape will help you understand why the park is designated a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. Wildland Trekking is an active partner of the Torres del Paine Legacy Fund, which helps educate local children, is creating a local recycling program, conducts trail restoration and much more. Keep your cameras ready and get ready for an unforgettable adventure with Wildland Trekking.
$195 Single Supplement
$195 SINGLE SUPPLEMENT
On this trip the single supplement includes single private rooms in the hostel we stay at before and after the camping portion of the trek. It also includes a private tent in each of the camping accommodations. Otherwise rooms at the hostel are either dbl. or quadruple occupancy and tents will be dbl. occupancy. Different sexes will never be asked to share a room or tent unless they are traveling together or we are in communal lodging with several people in one room.
DIFFICULTY LEVEL 3
Our difficulty ratings are based on a scale of 1-5, tours with a rating of 1 being least difficult, tours with a rating of 5 being most difficult
- Backpack Weight:
- 10-20 pounds
- Daily Hiking Distances:
- 5-16 miles
- Most Elevation Loss:
- 2430 feet
- Most Elevation Gain:
- 2430 feet
- Quality of Trails:
- Maintained dirt and rock trails
- Additional:
- Torres del Paine National Park is not a high elevation park, so although this tour has hikes with significant elevation gain and loss, elevation is not a factor. What gives this trek a Level 3 difficulty is the length of the hikes, one as far as 16 miles.
Participants should:
- be active and healthy
- exercise vigorously 3-5 times per week
- be comfortable hiking 6-10 miles per day in hilly or mountainous terrain with a 15 pound backpack
SOLITUDE LEVEL 2
1 least solitude, 5 most solitude
We rate this Patagonia hike a solitude 2. You can expect to have as much as an hour of solitude at a time while hiking.
Learn More about our Rating SystemBOOKING FLIGHTS
For our Patagonia treks we recommend flying directly into Puerto Natales, Chile on the day the trip begins. LATAM Airlines and Sky Airline offer direct flights from Santiago to Puerto Natales.
Flights to and from Chile are the guest’s responsibility. Multiple airlines operate flights into Punta Arenas (and LATAM and Sky Airlines flies into Puerto Natales), but there are no direct flights from U.S. or European cities. Most flights connect through Lima, Santiago, and/or Puerto Montt, Chile. The duration of these multiple-stop flights, including layovers, is normally between 20 and 28 hours.
Your flight after the trip should depart no earlier than 3PM if you’re flying from Punta Arenas. If you’re flying from Puerto Natales your flight can leave at any time.
Please Note: When you enter Chile, you will be issued a document called a PDI (tourism card). Please do NOT throw this away. You will need it to exit the country and nearly every lodge we stay in also asks for a copy.
Private Trips
Traveling in perfect company is a wonderful thing! With our private trip offerings you can book a trip exclusively for your group. Whether it’s with family, friends or colleagues, private trips are a fun and enriching way to explore the outdoors.
Private trip pricing is based on a sliding scale, depending on the number of people in your party. Rates are per person and do not include sales tax and national park fees (where applicable) or guide gratuity. Give us a call at 800-715-HIKE to get the ball rolling!
Private Rates FOr This Trip
- 2 People: Rate x 2
- 3 People: Rate x 1.5
- 4-5 People: Rate x 1.3
- 6-7 People: Rate x 1.2
- 8-10 People: Rate x 1.1
- 11-12 People: Rate x 1
*all rates are per person and single supplements apply
Private 10+ Guest Patagonia Trips
On all Patagonia trips for private or custom groups of more than 10 guests, a non-refundable deposit of 30% of the total trip cost is needed to secure the group’s reservations.
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