Patagonia Blog http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/ Everything about Patagonia en-us Nucleus CMS v3.22 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog//nucleus/nucleus2.gif Patagonia Blog http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/ My profile at Technorati.com http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=18 Technorati Profile]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=18 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 06:20:10 -0400 Navigation to Antarctica aboard "Explorer II" Cruise by Abercrombie & Kent http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=17
Antartctica Cruise with Penguins in the frontProgram 1: Classic Antarctica
Itinerary

Day 1: USA or Canada / Santiago, Chile
Depart on your flight to Santiago, Chile. In flight

Day 2: Santiago
Arrive this morning and transfer to your hotel, where immediate check-in has been arranged, with time to relax before this afternoon's city tour. Hyatt Regency Hotel B

Day 3: Santiago / Ushuaia, Argentina
Fly to Ushuaia for a sightseeing tour of one of Tierra del Fuego's spectacular wilderness parks and a Patagonian barbecue lunch. This afternoon, join your ship and settle in for a first night on board. 'Explorer II' B L D

Days 4–5: Cruising the Drake Passage
The southward journey toward Antarctica is an exciting one, as you join the Captain on the bridge or spot wildlife from the deck — these krill-rich waters are a particular favorite with marine mammals and seabirds. 'Explorer II' B L D

Days 6–10: Antarctica
As the Antarctic Peninsula and its offshore islands appear on the horizon, a sense of excitement and expectation begins to build. A first Zodiac expedition is swiftly followed by others, all carefully planned by the Captain and Expedition Leader to take full advantage of each day's possibilities.

On most days two landings are scheduled, heading out in swift and versatile Zodiacs, guided by expert drivers and accompanied by lecturers, to explore islands filled with thousands of penguins, to photograph nesting grounds of seabirds, and to cruise iceberg-strewn passageways of breathtaking beauty.

As conditions permit, the ship plans to land on the Antarctic Peninsula and on a number of islands in the South Shetlands, which may include Half Moon, Cuverville, Paulet, Penguin, Goudier and Deception. 'Explorer II' also plans to sail through breathtaking Paradise Bay and the Lemaire Channel, affectionately referred to as "Kodak Alley," with other possibilities for exploration including a scientific research station and the remains of early-century whaling and sealing industries. After each evening's leisurely dinner, there's time to stroll the deck and gaze at the seascapes in the lingering light of an austral summer twilight. 'Explorer II' B L D

Navigating in the cruise by the ices

Days 11–12: Drake Passage
The ship's return through the Drake Passage is an interlude for recap and reflection, with time to compare notes with your lecturers, and bird- or whale-watch from the deck. 'Explorer II' B L D

Day 13: Ushuaia, Argentina / Santiago, Chile
Disembark after breakfast, and head out to explore the busy port city of Ushuaia. There may be time for some shopping and sightseeing on your own before transferring to the airport to board your flight home via Santiago. In flight B

Day 14: USA or Canada
Arrive this morning and connect to homebound flights.

Due to the nature of expedition cruising, this itinerary is subject to change based on weather, ice, wildlife and other conditions beyond A&K's control

For contact, prices and booking of this cruise visit Antarctic Cruises page in Patagonia Antarctica Travel Agent

]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=17 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:11:16 -0400 New Listing of Hotels in Punta Arenas Chile in Patagonia http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=16 Hotels in Punta Arenas, Patagonia


Punta Arenas > Hotel Finis Terrae
Beautiful hotel of alpine architechture with a panoramic restaurante in the 6th floor. Great view to the city and to the Strait of Magellan. 64 rooms finely decorated.

Punta Arenas > Hotel José Nogueira Located in an old mansion, was declared a National monument and restored to be turned into an exclusive hotel. 23 rooms, telephone, fridge bar, cable TV, safety box, room service, meeting rooms, internet and laundry service. Fine Restaurant.

Punta Arenas > Hotel Cabo de Hornos
Renovated hotel in the main square with 100 rooms, a beautiful bar lounge and restaurante. Elegant, unique with a refined design empazised by high ceilings and cold look walls of stone in gross.

Punta Arenas > Hotel Los Navegantes
Traditional located few steps to the main commercial Street, near to the highlights of the city. 50 rooms, telephone, fridgebar, cable TV, safety box, room service, bar and restaurant. Internet and travel agency. Punta Arenas > Hotel Isla Rey Jorge
English Style Hotel located in a remodel beautiful old mansion just a block to the Main Square. Offers 25 rooms, telephone, fridgebar, CATV, safety box, room service, bar, restaurant, parking, internet and laundry service.

Punta Arenas > Hotel Tierra del Fuego
Comfortable hotel with a traditional style and elegant decration. Has a Restaurant and a nice Coffee Shop and Pub. Offers 30 rooms, telephone, fridgebar, cable TV, safety box, room service and internet.

Punta Arenas > Hotel Plaza
Located in front of the main sqaure and in the very center of the city is this traditional hotel with 17 rooms, service of direct dialling phone, fax, cable TV, internet and laundry service.

Punta Arenas > Hotel Savoy
Traditional tourist class hotel located a few blocks from main street and near the shore of the Strait of Magellan with 42 rooms, all of them with private bathroom. Central heating and Restaurant.]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=16 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:45:07 -0400 Punta Arenas City, The door to Patagonia and Torres del Paine http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=15 This is the door to Patagonia. Population: 110.000. Faces to Magellan Strait. It takes a 3 hour bus to Puerto Natales (254km NW) then a 2 hour bus to Torres del Paine National Park (120km NW) while enjoing the romantic view of "los cuernos" among guanacos and rheas. Keep your camera at hand to start building your memories. Here we include a vast area around this city... Otway & Skyring Sound to the north- west, Pali Aike Park to the north, Magellan Strait and the west side of Tierra del Fuego and Cruz de Froward to the South. All you need to know. See Magellan Zone map.
History & Activity
Punta Arenas is the capital of Magallanes province which comprehends from Cordillera del Paine on the north to Cape Horn on the south. Originally named "Sandy Point" by John Byron in 17th century. Founded in 1848, Punta Arenas became the urban, commercial, cultural and social center that spread all over Magallanes. Punta Arenas is the farthest south continental city in the world, and an important port for bioceanic traffic.

Location & Geography
The cordillera de los Andes offers a scenery divided by big creeks crossed by channels that form interior seas, like gulfs Almirante Montt and Isla Riesco. From Torres del Paine, the Andes turn their north south direction to end in the Beagle Channel with an east-west direction. Magellan Strait is 560 long and keeps a high relevance in navigation and maritime communications. Tourism cruises, fishing fleets, scientific investigators, merchandise transportation sail through these southern waters around the year. It is also the main door to the Antarctic continent.

Main Attractions
Among its main attractions there are museums, the monument to the shepherd, the cemetery; regional history and resources centers; the town theatre; the main square, magnificent buildings, free duty, the Strait of Magellan, Cerro de la Cruz, penguin colonies, Forest Reservations, Fuerte Bulnes, trekking circuits in native woods areas, variety of birds, rural tourism, lighthouses and more.
]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=15 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:34:03 -0400 Welcome To Patagonia, Chile and Torres del Paine http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=14 visit Patagonia Antartica Travel Agency in www.patagoniaantartica.com or just send us an E-Mail which will be directly answered by our manager who will recommend you best possible alternatives for your trip. For urgencies please call 56+61+249289. All type of services from conventional tours to adventure, fishing, cruises, trekking, lodging can be promptly quoted and booked.
Gonzalo Tejeda
ManagerAlthough Patagonia can be visited all year round without climatic limitations, the best part of the year to do so is from october to april.

Highly professional and well trained english speaking personnel will be in charge to quote itineraries, make-up programs upon request, suggest different type of services depending on your budget, or just answer your questions within 24 hours.

]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=14 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 14:43:46 -0400 New Camping Ground for travelers in Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia by Sodexho Alliance http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=13 Patagonia the beginning of a new Camping Service in the heart of Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia Chile. This is a new solution for individual travelers and truck groups around the world, a top Camping Ground in the shores of Lago Pehoe with a perfect view to the Cuernos del Paine, all with the support of Sodexho, an international food service company based in France with more than 70 branches worldwide.You will enjoy your staying in Patagonia for sure.The Camping Pehoe offer 50 Camping Sites, first quality sanitary instalations, drinkable water, electricity 24 hours a day, telecomunications to anywhere in the world and a special service of Restaurant. Also, there is a Store and Camping Equipment Rental Service. Each site has a shelter to protect from bad weather, table to have meals comfortably, a fireplace for barbacue or simply for warming up with friends, water pipes with 100% pure water, comfortable toilette rooms with hot showers, all implements to be comfortable outdoors. Big mirrors, laundry places to wash clothes and separated toilette rooms for men and women. When the evening comes lights are on to help you move inside the camping.

Overland Sodexho has set a new concept in tourism in Torres del Paine. The idea of the Store is to provide high energy products like cereal bars, chocolates, peanut butter, honey, natural marmelades, milk, raisins, almonds and more; products that are not available in other spots in the Park and at good prices. The stores is a great place for travelers to enjoy the most as long as they have a cup of coffee with a sweet brownie. Marcelo Kunstmann, manager of www.welcomepatagonia.com Patagonia tourism portal says: “Torres del Paine is an incredibly beautiful place and Camping Pehoe is a real solution for travelers. I have seen Kumuka, Budget and other Overland Trucks with their people happy for the place and the service they receive. They are professional, the food is great, I recommended it”.

Patagonia is one of the most amazing places in the world. It is a land with history, mountains, lakes, hills, flora and fauna... A missionary called Padre Agostini said about Torres del Paine National Park: “The Paine massif is unrivaled... In its colors and form it is without doubt one of the most fantastic and spectacular sights that human imagination can concieve." Torres del Paine National Park is a popular trekking destination and many visitors come each year and there are many strong reasons people keeps coming. The beautiful fauna and flora and the eternal ices of the glaciers are a delight; avalaible in our photo galleries.

We look forward to have you with us in your next trip to Patagonia!

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release contact Gloria Marzan.

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]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=13 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:32:02 -0400 Navigation by the glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano in Southern Patagonia http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=12 We are glad to share with everyone who loves Patagonia the beginning of a new tourism product/service called CATAMARAN FIORDOS DEL SUR. This is a new quick shuttle which navigates from Puerto Natales by the Ultima Esperanza Sound at a speed of 25 knots, reaching the final destination, the Balmaceda and Serrano Glaciers in a short period of time, allowing you to stay mor time in other attractions of the area.Southern Patagonia gathers much people each year for its uncomparable landscapes and marvelous fjords and channels. Puerto Natales is a small town and has become a headquarter for excursions and navigations to astonishing summits and millenial glaciers, beautiful waterfalls, thick forests and a variety of terrestrial and marine fauna. FIORDOS DEL SUR Catamaran is the newest and the fastest craft of the local market allowing you to reach all the atractions comfortably and faster. Because of the higher speed it develops, you have more time to enjoy in the place ot to take another excursion you like instead of being in a ship allday.

Getting deep into Ultima Esperanza Sound we shall see a spectacular scenery of bays, mountains and waterfalls along with a great variety of birds like the condor and the cormorants in their nests. We should also enjoy watching the small youngs of the sea wolves in their colonies depending of the season. Once in the base of the Balmaceda Mountain we will disembark into the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park to start a brief walk to the shore of a quiet and small lake which keep in its waters ices with romantic and fantastic shapes in the very feet of Serrano Glacier, which hangs from the high summits of the mountain. After an hour there, we head back the the pier to begin our comeback. In this hour you can enjoy short zodiac or kayak excursions among the ices. (Excursions must be booked in advance). Going back we can see Balmaceda Glacier as we enjoy a cocktail cooled with millenatry ice. After passing other interesting natural spots we drive into Puerto Natales, keeping unforgettable images and a feeling of calm and peace.

We look forward to have you with us in your next trip to Patagonia!

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release contact Juan José Salas or visit www.fiordosdelsur.com

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Contact:

Juan José Salas, General Manager
info@fiordosdelsur.com
Turismo Runner Tour Operator
56-61-712100
http://www.turismorunner.com
]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=12 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:02:00 -0400 Hotel Finis Terrae: A Great Hotel in Punta Arenas, Patagonia http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=11 We are glad to share with everyone who loves Patagonia the new face of the best hotel in Punta Arenas, Chile, Patagonia, Hotel Finis Terrae.

Hotel Finis Terrae is well known hotel in Punta Arenas for its beautiful alpine architechture. The hotel has 64 rooms distributed in six floors as Singles, Doubles, Triples, Junior Suites and Suites, all of them finely decorated and functionally comfortable. All rooms with private bathroom, Frigobar, CATV, Safety Box, Wireless Internet, hair dryer, thermal-acoustic isolation, music carefully programmed and central heating. As you get in the hotel find the lobby with comfortable furniture and updated newspapers for you to read. Then, you will se the front desk with our personnel to assist you. A few steps more you have a main room with a fireplace where you can sit and relax. The rooms are in floors 2, 3, 4 and suites in 5th floor with different views to the city and the Straits of Magellan. In the 6th floor we set our Panoramic Restaurant, the Bar and a great room for mettings.

You may begin the day with a delicious buffet breakfast or have a good time in the
Bar or enjoy the great international and regional Ciusine of the Panoramic Restaurante in 6th floor with a the romantic view to the Magellan Straight and to the whole city.

Roomy dependences and fine interior design.
Business room with computers and internet without charge.
Equiped halls with modern technology for meetings.
Emergency stairs in case of fire emergency.

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release contact Mónica Bravo or visit <http://www.hotelfinisterrae.com

For aditional informationa about Patagonia Tours, Torres del Paine and Patagonia Travel visit www.welcomepatagonia.com

Enjoy patagonia!

Contact:

Mónica Bravo, General Manager
Hotel Finis Terrae
56-61-228200
http://www.hotelfinisterrae.com

]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=11 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:52:35 -0400 NEW HOTEL Charles Darwin in Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=10 We are glad to share with everyone who loves Patagonia the beginning of a new hotel in Puerto Natales, near to Torres del Paine National Park called Charles Darwin. This place is located 1 block to the Ultima Esperanza Sound and a few blocks to the center. Very comfortable and has a great Restaurante. An international chef came from Santiago de Chile with a special taste for typical herbs and scents mixed with fresh sea food, pasta and fine meat which is the specialty in Puerto Natales. You will enjoy you staying when coming to Patagonia for sure.
The hotel has the front desk, administration offices and the Restaurante in the first floor, and 22 rooms distributed in the second and third floors, all with private bathroom, telephone, CATV, frigobar, hair dryer, shower door and central heating. Emergency stairs and a system of wet pipes in case of fire emergency. The staff is well trained, the structure of the administration allows us to offer a fine service at any time. We are concerned to give the best service possible so we have a program for continuous improvement. This is our second season, and we are glad because we have proved our policy: a hotel with good prices, comfort, location, restaurante and service before visiting Torres del Paine National Park. We believe that simplicity and details in decoration, comfort and a great restaurante make us different.

Patagonia is one of the most amazing places in the world. It is a land with history, mountains, lakes, hills, flora and fauna... A missionary called Padre Agostini said about Torres del Paine National Park: “The Paine massif is unrivaled... In its colors and form it is without doubt one of the most fantastic and spectacular sights that human imagination can concieve." Torres del Paine National Park is a popular hiking destination and many visitors come each year and there are many strong reasons people keeps coming. The beautiful fauna and flora and the eternal ices of the glaciers are a delight; avalaible in our photo galleries.

We look forward to have you with us in your next trip to Patagonia!

For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release contact Arturo Báez or visit www.hotelcharlesdarwin.com

For aditional informationa about Patagonia Tours, Torres del Paine and Patagonia Travel visit www.welcomepatagonia.com

Enjoy patagonia!

Contact:

Arturo Báez Hernández, General Manager
Hotel Charles Darwin
56-61-412478
http://www.hotelcharlesdarwin.com
]]> General http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=10 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:01:03 -0400 Patagonia tour en www.welcomepatagonia.com http://welcomepatagonia.com/blog/index.php?itemid=9 All the information about Patagonia tour and travel, excursiones, hotels, camping, in in here. Punta
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