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Route 40 Safari
4 Days / 3 Nights

BARILOCHE TO CALAFATE
Day 1 -
Bariloche / Rio Mayo
After a welcome reunion, we leave Bariloche going towards the South. This first part of our journey is about 700 km long. We’ll view a variety of landscapes along the way: lakes, mountains, forests and the first sight of the Patagonian plain. We’ll follow the route parallel to the Andes mountain range. At the end of this long day’s journey we’ll sleep in a unique, old hotel decorated in the 40's style, in Rio Mayo (typical patagonean town).

Day 2 - The “40”
Today we start traveling through the true Patagonia! The first part of the famous “ripio” (grubble roads). If you don’t know what these roads are about, don’t worry, you’ll find out. The land inhabited by the Tehuelches, Onas, and Mapuches. After 200 km we arrive to a narrow car track that will guide us to trail. We descend the Pinturas River’s narrow canyon to become amazed witnesses of the heritage of the ancient inhabitants of this land: the unique paintings of Cueva de las Manos. It is a 2 hs. hike (return) moderate, but a breathtaking one, hard to say which is more impressive, the narrow canyon or the caves and their paintings. We spend the night at Estancia Los Toldos (hostel accommodation).

Day 3 - Estancia Menelik
After breadfast The South, always going South. Route 40 presents so much beauty, so many views and extensive plains, that it is hard to describe and man’s hand in these few years of colonization, doesn’t go unnoticed. Even so, there are hikes of spectacular beauty. Ahead of us, the solitude of Route 40, the plains, wild animals and solitary farms, red roofs and popular trees. Nothing compares to being there and feeling the immensity and desolation of Patagonia. We will spend the night in a hostel at "Estancia Menelik", few Km. away from the Park, which will give us one day to catch our breath after the long journey. We continue, after lunch towards the famous yet not frequently visited Perito Moreno National Park, where both colours of Belgrano Lake, the guanacos’ neighs and the San Lorenzo Mountain at the far back, await us. We spend the day walking around there.

Day 4 - Estancia Menelik / El Calafate
A whole day along route 40. The plains, the condors, small eagles and choiques (short patagonian nandus) will be silent spectators along our way. We stop to get something to eat at one of the almost ghost towns on the road. If the Patagonian weather allows it, we’ll be able to view two world wide famous mountains at a distance, the legendary Torre and Fitz Roy, in the Los Glaciares National Park. At the end of the day we find ourselves in a lively town full of interesting people from all over the world. A danish man asking for fried cakes? Two germans learning to play Truco? It is El Calafate, by the Argentino Lake, a bigger town with more services to offer. We find comfort at Albergue Del Glaciar. A hot shower, TV, and we cannot believe these things still exist. That night, at El Calafate, we have a coffee or beer, we get loud and melancholic, we exchange addresses and say our goodbyes. This night is included and the nextr day you will visit the Perito Moreno Glacier. It is the end of our services.

CALAFATE - BARILOCHE
Day 1 - El Calafate / Estancia Menelik
Route 40 presents so much beauty, so many views and extensive plains, that it is hard to describe and man’s hand in these few years of colonization, doesn’t go unnoticed. Even so, there are hikes of spectacular beauty. Ahead of us, the solitude of Route 40, the plains, wild animals and solitary farms, red roofs and popular trees. Nothing compares to being there and feeling the immensity and desolation of Patagonia. We will spend the night in a hostel at "Estancia Menelik", few Km. away from the Park, which will give us one day to catch our breath after the long journey.

Day 2 - National Park Perito Moreno
We continue towards the famous yet not frequently visited Perito Moreno National Park, where both colours of Belgrano Lake, the guanacos’ neighs and the San Lorenzo Mountain at the far back, await us.

Day 3 - Cueva de las Manos
We descend the Pinturas River’s narrow canyon to become amazed witnesses of the heritage of the ancient inhabitants of this land: the unique paintings of Cueva de las Manos. It is a 2 hs. hike (return) moderate, but a breathtaking one, hard to say which is more impressive, the narrow canyon or the caves and their paintings. We spend the night at Estancia Los Toldos (hostel accommodation). At the end of this long day’s journey we’ll sleep in a unique, old hotel decorated in the 40's style, in Rio Mayo (typical patagonean town).

Day 4 - Río Mayo / Bariloche
We’ll view a variety of landscapes along the way: lakes, mountains, forests and the first sight of the Patagonian plain. We’ll follow the route parallel to the Andes mountain range. At the end of the day we find ourselves in a lively town full of interesting people from all over the world. This night we sleep in the Alaska Hostel (inc). Before separating, we exchange addresses and say our goodbyes.

*** End Of Our Services ***

Operable : November to March
Group Size : none on departure dates. 8 on other dates
Safari type:
Van + Trekking

Prices available upon request

Tour includes: bilingual very cool guides with a great knowledge of the visited areas, all excursions detailled in the itineraries, tents and all necessary things for cooking and camping.
Not included :
the entrances to National Parks, the food (normally we have food kittys, but that depends on the safari and the people) the rental f the sleeping bag, if you do not have your own, optional excursions or excursions not includede in the itinerary.
Note: This safari does not include "Cueva de las manos" fee. You will be sleeping at "Albergues" in the estancias, so you need to have a sleeping bag o rent it with the driver (please ask in advance).

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