Glamping Ride
Comfort, without leaving the wild.
The road north climbs until it stops. Eight hundred metres above the rest of Patagonia, the Baguales range keeps a weather of its own: snow, some mornings, while the steppe below has only wind.
And in the middle of it: a hot shower, a lamp, and a bed.
Duration
3 days
2 nights
In the saddle
All 3 days
Group
2 – 6 riders
Riding level
Novice
Departures
Private
your dates
From
USD 4,200
per person
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We meet you in the morning
Your guide collects you from your hotel or the airport in Puerto Natales, and you drive north together. The road climbs and the country empties. By early afternoon the horses are waiting at the estancia, and you ride the last hour and a half up to the domes yourself.
02
The long day
About five hours in the saddle, across two neighbouring estancias. You pass the puestos where the shepherds live through the summer with their sheep, and if the weather allows it, you ride to the stone marker on the Argentine border and look at two countries at once. Nothing is decided the night before. Up here the mountain decides, and we listen to it.
03
The last morning
Two hours in the saddle, or four. It depends on your flight, and you tell us. Lunch is carried with us. In the afternoon we drive you back down to Puerto Natales, and leave you at your hotel or the airport.
What the three days ask of you
Gentle, and unhurried
The riding is easy. You need to be comfortable at a walk and willing to trot, and nothing more than that. If you have not ridden in years, or ever, we have a horse for you and three days to find your seat on it.
There is no schedule. The long day is decided in the morning, over coffee, looking at the sky. And the sky up here is not the sky of the steppe below. That is the point of this journey rather than a flaw in it.
If you are unsure whether the ride suits you, telephone us before you decide. It is a short conversation and it has saved a great many people a long one.
What is arranged for you
Two nights above everything
You arrive on horseback. Eight hundred metres above the steppe, at the end of a valley that belongs to nobody, a bed has been made for you.
Hot water, light, and heat that runs all night. When the wind comes off the range you hear it, and you do not feel it.
Someone has been cooking since the afternoon. The table is long, and it is laid wherever the evening allows.
Who comes with you
This journey is private. You ride with the people you bring, your family, your friends, and with nobody else. We do not put strangers together for three days.
Two riders, or six. The dates are yours.
What the price includes
✦The drive up from Puerto Natales, and back down
✦Two nights in a private dome, with heating and hot water
✦Every meal, and the asado
✦Your horse and saddle, all three days
✦Your guide and gaucho, from the first morning to the last
✦A cook, up there with us
What it does not
✦Flights to and from Puerto Natales
✦Travel insurance: mandatory, and it must cover riding
✦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 you ride.
And if the weather turns?
Then the weather turns. Up here that is ordinary, and the days are built to bend around it. We change the route, never the days.
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 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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