This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys.

Accommodation is in Torres del Paine in either a refugio or equipped, serviced camping.

Torres Base, French Valley & Grey Glacier Valley

Total hike time to the Torres Base and back: 21.8 km / 13.6 mi – 9 hrs hiking

Paine Grande – French Valley:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7 km / 11 mi – 8 hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1 km / 15 mi – 10 hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11 km / 6.8 mi – 4 hrs hiking.

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It should be noted that if you have come to Torres del Paine to hike the W, the Circuit or just to see the sights, we can arrange Torres del Paine W Trek extras. For example, your pre and / or post Torres del Paine itinerary and activities as well.

For example, such Torres del Paine W Trek Extras can be:

• Arrival to El Calafate. Night Here.
• Visit the Perito Moreno Glacier, night in El Calafate or transfer to El Chalten.
• Hike Fitzroy. Night El Chalten.
• Hike Laguna Los Tres. Night El Chalten.
• Hike Cerro Torre. Night El Chalten.
• Transfer to El Calafate. Night El Calafate.
• Transfer to Puerto Natales to Torres del Paine.

Antarctica

Another option can be:

Disembark from an Antarctica Cruise, or a Patagonian Cruise, at Ushuaia (either of which we can also arrange for you, along with special offers applied) and then fly up from Ushuaia to El Calafate.

On the other hand, if you arrive to Punta Arenas, then we can bring you to Puerto Natales or to Torres del Paine from Punta Arenas.

In addition, activity options from Punta Arenas include: A half day visit to see penguins, and full day Whale Watching.

Torres del Paine Activities to add to your Torres del Paine Adventure

These can be:

• Full Day navigation to see the Serrano Glacier at the end of the Fiord of Last Hope from Puerto Natales.
• Also, the Milodon Cave from Puerto Natales.
• Full Day Lake Sofia hike from Puerto Natales.
• Patagonia Horse Riding near to Puerto Natales.
• Horse Riding at an authentic Patagonian estancia.
• Moreover, there is the Navigation Grey from Hotel Grey to Refugio Grey, or the reverse, or a return trip from and back to the hotel (passing in front of Glacier Grey).
• Kayak near Glacier Grey.
• Ice Hike on Glacier Grey.

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Your arrival date to Puerto Natales will need to be one of the following:

JAN 2027  START: 02 JAN

FEB 2027  START: 12 FEB

Our special, SMALL -GROUP (6 pax) guided W Trek

This itinerary will be escorted by one of Torres del Paine’s best, most knowledgeable, local guides. John, will educate and look after all participants during this 6 Nights / 7 Days W Trek Hike itinerary. You will see the famous TORRES BASE, the FRENCH VALLEY and get to the GREY LOOK OUT POINT. In addition, on the final day you will be treated to a Torres del Paine PHOTO SAFARI!

W Trek Three Valleys Guided Itinerary

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The itinerary program will be escorted by one of Torres del Paine’s top guides who will educate and look after all participants during this 4 Nights / 5 Days W Trek Hike itinerary. You will see the famous TORRES BASE, the FRENCH VALLEY and get to the GREY LOOK OUT POINT.

Note that this itinerary has the following fixed, first night dates:

JAN 2027 – 02 / 06 / 09 / 13 / 17 / 21 / 25 / 29

FEB 2027 – 02 / 07 / 12 / 17 / 27 / 26 / 30

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys – BUT return back to the privacy and comfort of your hotel room, with en-suite bathroom.

Accommodation is at Puerto Natales.

Torres Base, French Valley & Grey Glacier Valley

Total hike time to the Torres Base and back: 21.8km / 13.6 mi – 9hrs hiking

Paine Grande – French Valley:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7km / 11mi – 8hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1km / 15mi – 10hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11km / 6.8mi – 4hrs hiking.

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Experience Chile can arrange additional private transfers as well as extra nights and activities – just ask.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys, but being based at your hotel in Puerto Natales. What does this mean? This means that you get to return to the comfort of your own, private hotel room, with en suite bathroom each night and have the option to enjoy the services of Puerto Natales village.

Torres Base, French Valley & Grey Glacier Valley

Total hike time to the Torres Base and back: 21.8km / 13.6 mi – 9hrs hiking

Paine Grande – French Valley:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7km / 11mi – 8hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1km / 15mi – 10hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11km / 6.8mi – 4hrs hiking.

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Accommodation begins at your hotel in Puerto Natales followed by a night at Refugio Central and then Refugio Frances or Cuernos, with a final, last night in your hotel in Puerto Natales.

Experience Chile can arrange additional private transfers as well as extra nights and activities – just ask.

Torres Base & French Valley:

Torres Base: 21.8 km / 13.6 mi – 9 hrs hiking.

French Valley: 27.2 km / 17 mi – 5 hrs 10 min hiking.

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Accommodation begins at your hotel in Puerto Natales followed by a night at Refugio Frances or Cuernos, and then a night at Paine Grande, with a final, last night in your hotel in Puerto Natales.

Experience Chile can arrange additional, private transfers as well as extra nights and activities – just ask.

Paine Grande – French Valley – Grey:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7 km / 11 mi – 8 hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1 km / 15 mi – 10 hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11 km / 6.8 mi – 4 hrs hiking.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys – BUT return back to the privacy and comfort of your hotel room, with en-suite bathroom at a hotel in Torres del Paine.

Total hike time to the Torres Base and back: 21.8km / 13.6 mi – 9hrs hiking

Paine Grande – French Valley:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7km / 11mi – 8hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1km / 15mi – 10hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11km / 6.8mi – 4hrs hiking.

Accommodation is at one, or more different hotels in, or on the border of Torres del Paine.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys – BUT return back to the privacy and comfort of your luxury lodge room, with en-suite bathroom.

Luxury lodges offer high-end accommodation with tasteful, modern facilities together with great food, educated guides and in some cases, top spa facilities. Experience Chile says that by staying at a top lodge in Torres del Paine you will get another layer of unique experience over and above the one you will have from being in Patagonia.

Accommodation is at one of the following.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three, iconic valleys, but with an extra night that will allow you to arrive to Torres del Paine in the afternoon and avoid the usual early start from Natales. It will also enable you a better opportunity to avoid the early morning rush up to the Torres Base by being in the park the previous night.

Accommodation is in Torres del Paine in either a refugio or equipped, serviced camping.

Torres Base, French Valley & Grey Glacier Valley

• Total hike time from the Welcome Centre to the Torres Base and back is: 21.8 km / 13.6 mi – 9 hrs hiking.
• Total hike time from the Welcome Centre to Frances is: 16.6 km / 10 mi – 6 hrs hiking.
• Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 7.4 km / 4.6 mi – 4 hrs 30 mins hiking.
• Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 13.8 km / 8.6 mi – 6 hrs 30 mins hiking.
• Frances to Paine Grande: 8.9 km / 5.5 mi – 3 hrs 30 min hiking.
• Optional Paine Grande to Grey is 4 hrs.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to each of the three valleys – BUT return back to the privacy and comfort of your glamping lodge room, with en-suite bathroom.

Glamping lodges offer high-end camping accommodation with tasteful, modern facilities together with great food and educated guides.

Accommodation is at one of the following.

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This itinerary will allow you to do a full day hike to the Torres Base and the French Valley, with an option to get to the Grey Look out. However, Experience Chile can adapt this so that you do not have two nights at Frances/Cuernos, but that you have one night here and then a night at Paine Grande. In this event you would have time to go from Paine Grande to Grey and back, or depart from Grey on the Navigation Grey. The point being that by taking at Night at Paine Grande you will be able to hike all the way to Refugio Grey and on to Glacier Grey.

Also, we can add in a night at Grey. Alternativey we can arrange the reverse, start at Grey and end at Central or Chileno. Ask us for a custom W!

Accommodation is in Torres del Paine in either a refugio or equipped, serviced camping.

Torres Base, French Valley & Grey Glacier Valley

Total hike time to the Torres Base and back: 21.8 km / 13.6 mi – 9 hrs hiking

Paine Grande – French Valley:

Total hike time if to the French Valley Viewpoint and out is: 17.7 km / 11 mi – 8 hrs hiking.

Total hike time if to the French Valley Camp Britanico and out is: 24.1 km / 15 mi – 10 hrs hiking.

Paine Grande – Grey: 11 km / 6.8 mi – 4 hrs hiking.

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About

The Itinerary

Highlights

Included

Optional Extras

Start & End: Northern Sector of El Chalten (at the end of San Martin Avenue; beginning of 41 Route)

Grade of Difficulty: Easy

Trek Time: 1hr return

Distance: 6km return

Experience required: No trekking experience required.

Season: All year round.

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Los Cóndores and Las Águilas Viewpoints (Half Day)

This waterfall of about 20 metres high. It is a beautiful place surrounded by a leafy forest.

This is a waterfall located 4km from the village. Access is by walking, car or bike and Easy to get to.

Altitude Gain: 400m

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We Arrange

About El Chalten

El Chalten for Mount Fitzroy

Highlights

Included

Code 05

4 Nights – 5 Days

Operated: Between mid-October to End of April.

Note: We can add a guide if required.

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Day 1

• Arrival to El Calafate
  Transfer to your hotel in El Chalten.
• Overnight Hotel in El Chalten, matrimonial or twin-bed room, breakfast included.

Day 2

• Select from options further below, an activity or activities you wish to participate in.
• Overnight - Hotel in El Chalten, matrimonial or twin-bed room, breakfast included.

Day 3

• Select from options further below, an activity or activities you wish to participate in.
• Overnight Hotel in El Chalten, matrimonial or twin-bed room, breakfast included.

Day 4

• Select from options further below, an activity or activities you wish to participate in.
• Overnight Hotel in El Chalten, matrimonial or twin-bed room, breakfast included.

Day 5

• Transfer to airport.
• DEPART

If you want we can also arrange for you the domestic flights between Buenos Aires and Calafate + private transfer to El Chalten. To arrange an itinerary, email us…

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We can arrange itineraries to include El Chalten, for which we suggest a minimum of three nights, from El Calafate. Ideally you would add El Chalten into your Torres del Paine trip as a pre or post visit incorporating El Calafate inbetween, and going to see the Perito Moreno Glacier from El Calafate. Therefore a suggested itinerary would be 3 nights El Chalten, 2 nights El Calafate and 4 nights Torres del Paine with possibly an extra night in El Calafate for logistical reasons depending on flight times. To arrange your itinerary, email us…

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El Chalten is a small village set within the northern sector of the Los Glaciares National Park, a three hour drive from El Calafate. It is rapidly becoming a top destination for hikers and climbers who wish to enjoy the natural environment and the challenge of scaling the peaks, some of which have vertical sides. On a clear day the jagged peak of Mount Fitzroy is dramatic and impressive.

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To get to El Chalten you will need to get to El Calafate first. The transfer from El Calafate to El Chalten takes about 3 hrs. We can include this return transfer in any itinerary we arrange for you.

El Chalten is a very small touristic village located beyond the northern end of Lake Viedma and within the Los Glaciares National Park 200km north from El Calafate. Originally the indigenous Tehuelche people named the high-jagged peak, now called Mount Fitzroy, as El Chalten, which means “smoky mountain”. Considering that for most of the year Mount Fitzroy is shrouded in mist the “smoky mountain” name is appropriate. However, the peak was re-named Mount Fitzroy after Captain Robert Fitzroy of Charles Darwin’s ship “The Beagle” (Charles Darwin being an important and historic scientific naturalist who came to the southern shores of Patagonia), but the name El Chalten was adopted by the settlers as the name of the village.

Historically El Chalten had been considered to be within Chile until Argentine nationals began to live here.  Today the village is considered to be within Argentina, but it is adjacent to the still disputed border boundary between Chile and Argentina. Both countries, until now, have not agreed on where the official border should be in this zone and the Lago del Desierto (a long narrow lake north of El Chalten) is an area whose political future is yet to be finally determined. It is also very close to the southern-most village of mainland Chile – Villa O´Higgins, at the end of the Careterra Austral road.

The main attraction – Mount Fitzroy,  resembles the “Torres” in Torres del Paine National Park, reaching a height of 3,400m with vertical sides that create an impressive and dramatic mountain spectacle. El Chalten is primarily a base for serious hikers who wish to hike the trails in the area or climb the challenging peaks.

Considering that El Chalten sits within the national park people mainly sleep in the village and each day will walk one of the hiking trails then return to their same comfy hotel at night, avoiding the need to camp.

The park rangers located at the entrance to the village provide camping and national park information for visitors. The tourist trade has spawned a few restaurants and basic shops in town, and some of the accommodations provide internet and phone access. There are a few hikers’ hostels, a handful of boutique-style, small hotels and one top-end hotel in town. Other than that, the village is fairly far removed from the normal flow of news and communication, even during high season (November-February), and is nearly deserted during off-season (the Southern Hemisphere winter).

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Included:

• Accommodation.
• Breakfast at HOTELS.

*Optional Activities El Chalten

• (self-guided trek option. * if you want to going a group or book a private tour, let us know!)
• Laguna de los Tres – Mt. Fitz Roy
• Laguna Torre – Cerro Torre
• Loma del Pliegue Tumbado
• Los Cóndores and Las Águilas Viewpoints
• Laguna Capri
• Mirador Torre
• Estancia Los Huemules
• Piedra del Fraile & Glaciar Pollone

If you want we can also arrange for you the domestic flights between Buenos Aires and Calafate + private transfer to El Chalten.

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