Expedition Ride
The same country, six days, and a wilder night.
You ride on the first morning, not the second. From there the days run on without a pause, across the same country the Signature Ride crosses, and end where it ends: on the water, at the face of a glacier.
What changes is the bed. You sleep in the old houses of the estancias, on a bunk, in a sleeping bag you brought yourself.
Duration
6 days
5 nights
In the saddle
All 6 days
Group
2 – 6 riders
Riding level
Intermediate
Departures
Private
your dates
From
USD 6,990
per person
01
Into the range
Your guide collects you in Puerto Natales and drives north across the steppe. By early afternoon you are on a horse, and you stay on it for about five hours, climbing into the Baguales range. The house you sleep in tonight has been standing there a long time.
02
A day that belongs to nobody
Five hours across a private estancia, and no one on it but you. Open valleys, scree, water crossings, the shepherds’ huts standing empty until the summer. At dusk you come back to the same door you left in the morning.
03
South, and then up
You ride south all morning across flat, open country, and then the ground rises and you climb the long hills that close the valley. On the far side there is an estancia, and someone has had a lamb over the fire since the morning.
04
Laguna Azul
The longest day: forty-two kilometres of open country. You stop for lunch at the edge of the water, look up, and the Torres are there. That night there is no house. The tents go up near the horses, and the wind does what it does.
05
Across the park
Thirty-five kilometres of remote trail through Torres del Paine, the massif turning slowly beside you all day. The horses spend that night in the park. The rest of us take the road to a lodge.
06
The glacier, and the road home
Two and a half hours in the saddle, and then you leave the horses. They are not allowed to go on. You walk the last stretch down to the water, and at one o’clock a boat carries you out across Grey Lake, between the icebergs, to the face of the glacier. By evening you are back in Puerto Natales.
What the week asks of you
Six days, and no soft one
There is no arrival day here. You ride on the first afternoon and you ride on the last morning, and the days in between do not let up. About five hours in the saddle most days, and one that runs to forty-two kilometres.
The riding is not technical. It is long, and it is consecutive. You should be secure at walk, trot and canter, and content to spend a full day out of doors, six days running.
If you are not sure the week suits you, call us before you decide. Five minutes on the telephone tells us both more than any page can.
What is arranged for you
A bunk, and a roof that has earned it
You sleep in the working houses of two estancias, real ones, where sheep are still worked and families still live. Bunk beds, two to a room, good bathrooms, hot water. You bring your own sleeping bag. One night, at the estancia in the valley, you get a real bed, and one night there is no house at all, and you sleep in a tent beside the horses.
The country is the same. The horses are the same. The guiding is the same. What changes is the night: closer to the ground, closer to the horses, closer to the country itself.
Two nights
A Working Estancia
Sierra Baguales
One night
The Great Estancia
A hundred thousand hectares
One night
Under Canvas
Beside the horses
One night
Patagonian Lodge
Torres del Paine
Who comes with you
This journey is private. You ride with the people you bring, and the dates are yours. If your dates are fixed and your group is small, tell us anyway. Some things can be arranged that are not written here.
What the price includes
✦Five nights: three under a roof, one under canvas, one in a lodge
✦Every meal, from the first lunch to the last
✦Your horse and saddle, all six days
✦Your guide and gaucho, from the first morning to the last
✦Private vehicle transport, meeting you along the route
✦Torres del Paine National Park entrance
✦The Grey Lake navigation to the glacier
✦The lamb asado at the estancia
What it does not
✦Flights to and from Puerto Natales
✦Travel insurance: mandatory, and it must cover riding
✦A sleeping bag. Bring your own
✦Personal expenses and gratuities
✦Riding equipment. A helmet is mandatory; we can arrange one
Good to know
How do I hold a place?
A deposit of thirty per cent confirms it. The balance is due sixty days before departure.
And if the weather turns?
We change the route, not the days. The weather has its say in Patagonia, and we plan around it so that you never have to.
Where does the journey begin?
Puerto Natales. Your guide collects you from your hotel or the airport on the first morning, and returns you there on the evening of the last.
The itinerary
Every day, in detail
This page gives you the feel of the journey. The full itinerary has all the detail: hours in the saddle each day, distances, elevations, every night’s bed, and a map of the whole route. If you’d like to see it, just ask.
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Small-group horseback journeys across Chilean Patagonia · Torres del Paine, Chile
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