*The following itinerary is for reference only and may not match the itinerary of your confirmed program. If you have any questions about your confirmed itinerary, please contact us at reservas@denomades.com.
Start: Day 1 at 12:00 pm (October and April) or 2:30 pm (November to March) in the Terminal Rodoviario de Puerto Natales.
End: Day 2 at 9:30 pm at the Puerto Natales Bus Terminal. This is a fixed schedule and cannot be moved earlier. Therefore, it is required to stay overnight in Puerto Natales on the day the program ends, and your flight from Puerto Natales or your transfer to Punta Arenas must always be scheduled for the following day.
Day 1: Departure from Puerto Natales.
The program starts with you being in the Puerto Natales Bus Station to go to the Portería Laguna Amarga where you will enter to the Torres del Paine National Park. After that, you will be able to take other land transport to the Welcome Center (not included), where you will have to register. You will walk to the Central campsite, where you will spend the night.
Day 2: Base of Torres del Paine Trek and arrival to Puerto Natales (22 km, 8 to 9 hours).
You will get up early to start hiking to the Base of Torres del Paine. You will begin with an ascent trek of around 3 hours, in which you will go through a forest at the foot of the Almirante Nieto Mount until reaching the moraine, the starting point of the heaviest part of the trek. After going up by this path, you will get to the Base of Torres del Paine, where if the weather allows it, you will admire the landscape formed by this granite elevations and the lagoon of glacier source. After staying there for a while, during which you will recover energy and take pictures, you will start the walk back to the Welcome Center and then to the portería, to take the bus back to the Terminal Rodoviario de Puerto Natales, where the activity ends.
*The itinerary may be modified at any time in case of trail closures due to extreme weather conditions (such as whiteouts, heavy snow accumulation, or wind gusts that make trekking unsafe) or natural disasters. These measures are very rare, applied only once or twice a year, and are determined by CONAF, the park’s managing authority, exclusively to ensure visitor safety.