Trekking to the Paine Towers Base – Full Day

Featured!

Highlights:

• Torres del Paine National Park:
  A national park encompassing mountains, glaciers, lakes, and rivers in southern Chilean Patagonia. The Cordillera del Paine is the centerpiece of the park. It lies in a transition area between the Magellanic subpolar forests and the Patagonian Steppes.
• The Paine Towers
  These granite monoliths act as a symbol for the entire park. They extend up to 2,500 meters above sea level, and are joined by the Cuernos del Paine.

Description:

The departure from Puerto Natales will be at 07:00 am to go directly to Las Torres sector. After a long journey, we will arrive at Paine hill farm which is the starting point of our excursion. Before that, the tour guide will advise us about this long trek.

Then, we will start our excursion to the valley.  After 10 minutes, we will go over an old suspension bridge which crosses the Ascencio river. About 150 metres further, we will see a sign that will lead us to Las Torres Base.

Later on, we will go up a sinuous slope for one hour surrounded by sparse vegetation. After 45 minutes, we will get to Chileno camping site which is located on the shore of Ascencio river.

From this point, the trail turns harder and after one hour and ten minutes, we will get to the eastern part of the lake, where we will have a wonderful view of the three towers (Central, Monzino, Dagostini).

After resting and having lunch in this extraordinary and unique place , we  will begin our return along the same path until we reach the point where our driver left us . At the end of the day, we will return to Puerto Natales.