This Yampu trip is the complete Patagonia experience. We begin in Buenos Aires before traveling to Trelew. Here you will visit the Valdes Peninsula and the Punta Tombo penguin rookery, one of the most fascinating places on the steppes of Patagonia. Your next stop is Ushuaia, South America’s southern-most city, and Tierra del Fuego with a cruise visit to the Beagle Channel, a strait separating the islands of the archipelago. Finally, we will travel to Calafate and Estancia Cristina to visit Glaciers National Park, famous for the Perito Moreno and Upsala glaciers.

The Stella and the Via are the new expedition cruise ships of Patagonia Cruises in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Each of the outside cabins offers spectacular views of glaciers, forests and snow-capped mountains when we cross from Argentina to Chile, arriving at Torres del Paine National Park. Yampu travelers will also visit Buenos Aires - that lovely city on the southern shore of the Rio de la Plata - and Santiago.

The geographical size of Chile is not ominous; from north to south covers 2,700 miles and from east to west barely reaches 150 miles, however the landscape is both vast and diverse. Yampu’s complete trip of Chile will guide you through the capital city of Santiago; the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth; the mysterious and magical Easter Island; Torres del Paine National Park, a beautiful aggregation of mountains, glaciers, lakes and rivers; and the Lake District, with spectacular lakes, volcanoes, rivers and waterfalls.