Price includes: Accommodation with half board (soft drinks and wine), regular transfers in/out to Calafate on scheduled days (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays), transfer from Calafate to airport, and all activities. Neither airfare nor airport taxes are included. Hosteria Helsingfor is 3.5 hours away from Calafate. If you’d like to go to Helsingfors upon arrival in Calafate, you must arrive before 12 pm. We recommend staying overnight Calafate on your last day to visit Perito Moreno. Longer stays available. Please ask your travel consultant.

Activities:

Trekking or Horse back to the Blue Lagoon: 5 ˝ hours by foot/ 4 ˝ hours by horse. Difficulty: medium: The trail starts at the lodge and enters the river Alfredo valley, gradually ascending by the sides of the Huemul Hill and with the musical noise of the river. After a 40-minute walk, you will see a magnificent view of Mt. Fitz Roy emerging from the other side of Viedma Lake. The path continues deeper into the valley and narrows, surrounded by the Cordón Huemul and its peaks that reach 2700 ms in height. During the journey it is usual to see guanacos and condors curiously approaching to observe you. After a one-hour walk at the end of the valley, you will see the river form a spectacular waterfall at a height of 300 meters. The journey continues along the mountain and after a 50-minute climb, you’ll be surrounded by the permanent snow on the mountains. After another 10-minute walk through a small wood you will see the lagoon in a deep bright blue contrasting with the darkness of the mountain and the whiteness of the glacier descending from the highest Andes Mountains to the very bank of the lagoon! The surroundings are beautiful and invite contemplation and reflection in absolute silence, which is only interrupted by the sounds of the usual avalanches that take place from the summits falling to the glacier.

Navigation to Viedma Glacier: 5 hours. Difficulty: medium. Leaving from the Lodge’s pier, you will set out Northbound, with Mt. Fitz Roy in front like a great lighthouse guiding the way over the enormous mirror of 1100 km2 of water. It takes a 40-minute navigation to reach Viedma Glacier. During this time, while bordering the Western coast of the lake, you’ll have the privilege to observe the Strict Reserve (“Estricta Reserva”) – where mankind has no access – of the Glaciers’ National Park, where the largest colony of “guemals” (domestic stag in extinction) dwell in the Austral Patagonia. In spite of these creatures being extremely shy, you may be lucky enough to notice some drinking water from the lake banks or hidden among the vegetation. Before reaching the glacier, hidden within the rocky walls, lies the Amphitheatre Waterfall – “El Anfiteatro de la Cascada”, a narrow entrance of water in the rock, which enlarges once inside, thus forming a large circumference, with walls 40 meters-tall and crowned by a 10 meter-tall cascade which falls in the middle of the amphitheatre. It takes only a few minutes more navigation before reaching Viedma Glacier, the giant of Glaciers National Park, that with its colossal size of 978 km2, makes even the Upsala of 902 km2 seem small (for years the largest of National Park). Upon arrival, the view is sublime: the glacier haughtily stands approximately 60 ms above lake level and on its walls nature displays tones of blue never seen before. After taking in these sights, you will disembark on the dark side of the glacier to take a close view of the erosion that was provoked by its pass on the rock, leaving it completely trimmed forming neat shapes and curves. Cautiously approaching the glacier, one can touch it, drink its millenarian waters, and if the ice-conditions allow it, you might explore inside searching deeper in its caverns which separate the rock and ice (this option is only possible in some circumstances, the tour-guide will decide whether the conditions are appropriate). After 40 minutes crossing the dark side, you will return to Helsingfors, not before taking a piece of millenarian ice for the evening drinks.

Navigation and trekking to Laguna del Morro: Round trip navigation: 4 hours. One way navigation and return by foot: 7 hours. Difficulty: medium: You will depart from the lodge’s pier, heading Westbound along one of Viedma Lake’s branches – which penetrates the Andes Mountains – known as Moyano Bay. During the navigation you’ll appreciate the Huemul, Mascarello, Moyano Hills and the majestic North Hill, while reaching the end of Moyano Bay, you’ll come across a valley of the river with the same name and at the end of it, descending the mountains, the Moyano Glacier, in its upper part as a hanging glacier and in its lower part as a valley glacier. After 25 minutes of navigation you will arrive at the descending point, where you can set out for a 30-minute walk until you reach the Morro Lagoon. A mirror of crystal water is revealed with emerald green “lenga” woods that surround it. This lagoon is a quiet and peaceful paradise, ideal for trout fishing. Those more enthusiastic can continue walking for a short time and discover the two lagoons (one of them very extensive) and both are close by. Those who wish can return on the Zodiac. The most adventurous can choose to return walking, bordering the Wind Peninsula. The distance by foot is 9 kms.

Yampu only offers the Hosteria Helsingfors program as an add-on to a highlight program. Booking fee may apply otherwise.