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Patagonia, the famous and the unknown, november 2012 |
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november 2012 a 13 day expediton for 2-10 persons
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An expedition to capture the wild landscapes and the impressive fauna of Patagonia. To photograph whales, seals, sea lions and sea elephants, Orcas and sea birds. To walk through a colony of 500.000 penguins to may observe their intricacies first hand. To shoot fallen stone trunks at two petrified woods of 65 million years old situated among reathtaking landscapes at arid Patagonian flat terrains; fossils engraved at stones, caves, and weird beaches covered by shells. We will sail among and walk on huge glaciers with walls up to 135 meters high to may photograph all from best spots. |
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1st day
arrival at Buenos Aires |
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Check in for night; we stay at a nice hotel in San Telmo, right on the famous square. |
2nd day
Flight Buenos Aires- Trelew
- distance to Trelew 1436 km
- night at Puerto Pirámide
- distance 155 km
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A drive from Trelew to Puerto Pirámide..
There, we will photograph the area declared a Worldwide Nature Heritage by UNESCO. It is Puerto Pirámide, at peninsula Valdes,making a boat trip to sail among whales, and visiting its sea lion colony .
Our itinerary will continue to Caleta Valdes, a unique coastal landscape inhabited by southern elephant seals and to Punta Cantor.
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3rd day
- distance Trelew 155 km
- night at Trelew
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We'll drive till reach the El Doradillo Beach to may shoot the impressive riffs and seashores there. After making check in at the hotel in Trelew,
In the afternoon, we'll go to the Natural protected area of Punta Tombo, the most important Magellan Penguins colony within Patagonia. Half a million of them arrive at this place every year in order to breed. One of the greatest features of this Reservation is the fact that you can literally walk among the penguins, follow them and learn their habits. Punta Tombo is surrounded by the typical lonesome and arid landscapes of the Patagonia’s flat terrain. We will discover all the life richness hidden in its bushes. There are lambs (typical Patagonian livestock), guanacos,choiques (ostriches), maras
(Patagonian hares), foxes, and martinetas.Getting closer to the coast, we will see how this rocky territory hosts a great quantity of sea birds: southern seagulls, skúas, royal and black-necked cormorants, Antarctic pigeons and petrels.
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4th day
- distance to Sarmiento 523 km
- night at Sarmiento
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Our trip will continue to Sarmiento across the Senguer river valley, land of greens and ochre framed by lakes Colhue Huapi and Musters. We'll drive 30 km away to the South of Sarmiento to a provincial natural monument, a forest from the Cenozoic Era, approximately 65 million years old. These petrified trees, witnesses of Prehistory, make up an indescribable beauty given by the hardness of the rock, the colour of the different geologic strata and the unique landscape surrounding them.
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5th day
- distance to Puerto Deseado 436km
- night at Puerto Deseado
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We'll leave to Puerto Deseado, making a stop at a special place, to go down the riffs and see caves with fossils and the weird beach with rocks covered with blue mussels.After arriving at Puerto Deseado we will sail along the Ria Deseado, a natural reserve, where there was a river that left it s bank and was occupied by the sea.. This produced as a consequence the formation of canyons, the coasts that outline the ria and islands. A great biodiversity of fauna can be observed there. |
6th day
- distance 25 km
- night at Puerto Deseado
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Day excursion to the Isla Pinguino, located 25km at open sea, where we will see the only colony of the striking rock hopper penguin that exists in the Patagonia coast. If weather doesn't allow, we'll go to Cabo Blanco
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7th day
- distance 420 km
- night at Puerto San Julian
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A drive to visit the Jaramillo Petrified Woods, fossilized by the effect of volcanic eruptions millions of years ago on the way. The trees, turned into kind of rock statues by the action of volcanic dust, were mostly coniferous.
We will go on till reaching Puerto San Julian, the place where Magellan took possession of the territory in name of Spanish crown, where they established contact with natives calling them patagones for the first time. A drive road along 27 km of beaches with impressive landscapes and different characteristics; fossils spread on them at rocks and sand, thousand of shells forming a breathtaking ground at one of them.. These beaches were frame also of other events.. Darwin, Sir Francis Drake, Fitzroy took shelter on them
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8th day
- distance 440km
- night at Calafate
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We'll drive to see Monte Leon, the first coastal national park, in order to observe and capture all species that inhabit Patagonia coast. With wide vegetation and outstanding hills, near the coast, appears Monte Leon, a peninsula eroded by the wind and water. We'll go on our trip till reach city of Calafate, distant 350 km
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9th day
- distance 20 km
- night at Calafate
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The gateway to Glaciers National park, one of the most important tourist attractions in Argentina, included by Unesco as a World Heritage A trekking over the famous Perito Moreno glacier, after a sail to brazo Rico. A walk to have a panoramic of the glacier
Navigation of one hour in front of the 50-meter high glacier’s walls…
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10th day
- distance 215 km
- night at Calafate
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An day excursion to el Chalten, to shoot the famous Fitz Roy peaks, Viedma lake and Glacier. Opportunities to shoot Flamingo's and with some luck, condors
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11th day
- distance 20 km
- night at Calafate
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We'll sail along the northern arm of Argentino lake to reach glacier Upsala and Spegazzini and Onelli bay. Moving through huge icebergs, boat arrivaes at Upsala glacier, the largest in the park. We will get near the walls of the highest glacier, the Spegazzini towering over 400 ft. Onelli bay , to may disembark and hike across an andean Patagonian forest to view Onelli, Bolados and Aglassiz glaciers will be included, as well.
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12th day
Flight Calafate- Buenos Aires
- distance 2787 km
- night at Buenos Aires
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Leaving Calafate and after 4 hours of flight we will arrive at Buenos Aires in the afternoon. Visit to La Boca and a briefing of the travel.
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13th day |
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Depart to your home. Activity according to it.
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