Signature Ride
From the Baguales Range to the towers of Paine.
You begin on the steppe, three hours north of everything, where the Baguales Range closes the sky. You end six days later on the water, drifting between icebergs at the face of a glacier.
Between the two you cross valleys, rivers and a mountain pass, on a horse that knows the way.
Duration
7 days
6 nights
In the saddle
5 days
140 km
Group
2 – 6 riders
Riding level
Intermediate
Departures
2 each month
November – March
From
USD 7,790
per person
01
We meet you in the morning
Your guide meets you at your hotel or the airport in Puerto Natales, and you drive north across the steppe together, stopping for lunch on the way. By the afternoon the road ends at the foot of the Baguales Range, and the first evening is spent there. The horses are waiting a short ride away.
07
The road back
On the last morning your guide drives you back to Puerto Natales along the river, through the forests and lakes of the Serrano, and leaves you at your hotel or the airport before midday. It takes about an hour and a half, and nobody says much.
02
Sierra Baguales
The road runs north across the steppe and stops where the range begins. Two nights here, and the first ride: open valleys, rolling ground, and a horse you are only beginning to know.
03
The pass to Las Chinas
A steady climb to thirteen hundred metres, the highest ground of the week, with the valleys laid out on every side. Then the long descent. At the estancia below, someone has had a lamb over the fire since morning.
04
Laguna Azul
The longest day of the week: forty-two kilometres across the Las Chinas valley. You stop for lunch at the edge of the water, look up, and the Torres are there.
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
Grey Glacier
A half day in the saddle, and then we leave the horses. They are not allowed to go on. You walk the last stretch down to the water, and a boat takes you out across Grey Lake, between the icebergs, to the face of the glacier. It is the last thing you see of Patagonia.
What the week asks of you
Long, not difficult
The riding is not technical. It is long. You should be secure at walk, trot and canter, and content to spend a full day out of doors. Most of our riders come from an English background and take a day to settle into the Criollo horse and the Patagonian cangalla saddle.
There is one long day, and one short one, the last, which ends on the water. Of the seven days, the first and the last are travel.
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
Four places to sleep
A camp on the open steppe, a working estancia, a lodge on the water, a lodge at the end of the park. The horses sleep where the day ended.
Two nights
Remote Glamping
Sierra Baguales
One night
Private Estancia
A valley of its own
One night
Lakeside Lodge
Torres del Paine
Two nights
Patagonian Lodge
Torres del Paine
If you are travelling alone
Many of our riders are. It costs nothing extra to come on your own: the price is the same, and rooms are twin, shared with someone of your own sex. If you would rather have the room to yourself, tell us. The supplement is USD 1,200.
No one is seated apart. And by the third day, nobody remembers who arrived with whom.
What the price includes
✦Six nights across four lodges
✦Every meal, from the first lunch to the last
✦Your horse and saddle for five riding 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, turning over the fire since morning
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
✦Single room supplement, USD 1,200
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. The deposit is what holds the place; until it arrives, the dates stay open to everyone.
And if the weather turns?
We change the route, not the week. 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. We collect you from your hotel or the airport on the first morning, and return you there before midday 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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Small-group horseback journeys across Chilean Patagonia · Torres del Paine, Chile
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