Kayak Andean lakes 3 days

Highlights

Faithful to our spirit, this trip is a good chance to meet a region of the north Patagonia which is still remote and indomitable. We will drive to the first stretch of the austral highway which opens its road between the Andes Mountain and the Pacific Ocean, this road is attractive and beautiful by itself. We will have views to the Osorno volcano, Calbuco and Yates. We can appreciate many falls that come from the mountains on their way to the sea. During our trip we will share with settlers, we will sleep in their houses and they will be the people in charge of carrying our equipment from lake to lake in a kind of cart pulled by oxen.

Expedition Details:

• Sea Kayak + trekking
• Length: 3 days / 2 nights
• Family Lodging: 2 nights
• Level of difficulty: Easy. Not previous experience needed.
• Rowing hours: 4 to 6 hours
• Place: North Patagonia, Puelo river basin
• Meeting point: we pick you up at your hotel in Puerto Varas.
• End of the trip: Puerto Varas, Puelo o Cochamo.
• Dates: Every Wednesday and Saturdays (October to may)
• Group size: 2 to 10 people max.

Include:

• All meals from day 1 to day 3, including breakfast, walk snack, box lunch, dinner, wine, appetizers, board cheese and other delicious food.
• All Land trasportation (private van the entire trip)
• All water transportation (ferry Tagua Tagua lake)
• 2 nights in a family lodging (colonos).
• Kayak with rudder and Prijon equipment (from Germany), doubles and simples, rows, faldones, row jackets, life jacket, dry bags for your equipment.
• Professional First aid kit, GPS, UHF Radios, handy, maps and repair kits, cell phone, aerial pictures and more.
• Bilingual Guide (Spanish-English) accredited by Wilderness First Response. Wide experienced in sea kayak, long trips to remote places.
• Book collections about the trips, which will help you to enrich the experience and increase your knowledge about the places.
• Conversations about minimal impact, land navigation, flora and
  fauna. The aim is to reinforce or to obtain basic knowledge about visiting wild areas and enjoying outdoor life.

Not Included:

• Air Trips, accident or rescue insurance, personal equipment, tips or any other service not mentioned in this program.

Personal Equipment:

• Sneakers or sandals, sunglasses, a cap, sun block, towel, swim suit, water bottle, camera and films
• When you reserve the trip, we give you a list of everything you will need to be ready for your adventure
  

Day by Day

• Day 1 Puerto Varas/ Tagua Tagua Lake
  Once in the Tagua Tagua Lake, we will organize the equipment while we drink a nice and hot chocolate, we will enter into the lake with our kayaks to have a conversation about safety, rescue and paddle techniques. Once we finish the Practise we will Paddle for about 3 hour to cross this stretch Andean lake which shows us Big rock walls which go inside the water as fantastic falls that go straight down the lake.
  
  
• Tagua Tagua/ Blue Lake
  In the opposite side of the Tagua Tagua Lake our private van will be waiting for us to drive us by a dirt track which was built just 2 years ago. This track will take us to a huge plain populated by settlers from the south of the world. In this place we will have home-made lunch (we have special menus for vegetarian people). We will continue our trip to Laguna Totoral where we will load our kayaks into a kind of cart pulled by oxen. We will walk for about 1 hour to get to the beautiful north side of the Blue Lake (lago las Rocas). We will enter into the water and paddle for about 2 hours in this Lake populated only by 2 settler families. Once on the opposite edge we will meet the Gallardo family who will lodge us in their home next to the Lake.
  
  
• Day 2 Trekking: Lago las Rocas and searching for the parallel 42°
  Today we will take thing easy to enjoy along the day the different trekking that this place gives us. We will walk trough old forests which will take us to the Laguna de los Patos and The Rocks (Lake Lagos las Rocas), we will pass over the mystical parallel 42° and we will go over a path which will take us to a forest of old and original Arrayanes that has woodpeckers, Rayaditos, Come Cebos, Chuacos and Hued Hued among other birds that the Patagonia has. Once we will be back in the Blue Lake (Lago Azul) we will enjoy the hospitality of the family and a delightful dinner.
  
  
• Options of the day: Horse Rental, Zodiac Rental to go around the Rocks Lake (lago las Rocas) and to come walking to the Lower lake (Lago Inferior).
  
  
• Day 3 Blue lake / Puerto Varas
  We will have a nice breakfast and we will begin our return to Puerto Varas, rowing in the Blue Lake to load our equipment later in our van. This time we will cross the Tagua Tagua Lake by ferry.

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