Private Journeys

Antarctic Peninsula: Fly and cruise

14 days from £18,290pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

Antarctica

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Overview & Highlights

Fly to the Antarctic Peninsula, avoiding turbulent Drake Passage and saving time for your comfortable expedition ship to the Antarctic Peninsula.Also visits Torres del Paine in Chile.

Skip the stomach-lurching waves by flying from southern Patagonia to join cruise ship Ocean Nova in the most accessible region of the continent around the Antarctic Peninsula. Before this take advantage of your positioning in Chile’s far south spending a few days in Torres del Paine National Park, replete with icy spires, aquamarine lakes and wilderness wildlife.

The Antarctic peninsula is a slim finger of land and offshore islands reaching out from the main continental mass towards southern Argentina. In addition to prolific wildlife and extraordinary ice-carved landscapes there you will see evidence of the human impact – derelict whaling stations, and research outposts. This expedition provides an in-depth experience of the snow-drenched mountains and icebergs of these more accessible fringes of the White Continent. The cliffs and bays are brought to life by the chattering and wheeling of birdlife, sea-lions and penguins.

And round everything off with a couple of days at a sunny vineyard outside Santiago.

A full programme of excursions to Torres del Paine National Park
Shore excursions on the Antarctic cruise
Activities at the vineyard near Santiago

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Outline itinerary

Day 1

Arrive in Santiago. Transfer to your hotel in the smart residential district Providencia.

Day 2

Fly south to Punta Arenas in Chilean Patagonia; by road to Puerto Natales.

Days 3-4

Explore Patagonia, including a visit to Torres del Paine National Park.

Day 5

By road to Punta Arenas, overnight.

Day 6

Fly to King George Island, board your expedition ship.

Days 7-10

Cruising the shores of the Antarctic Peninsula; land and sea excursions.

Day 11

Fly back to Punta Arenas, overnight.

Days 12-13

Fly to Santiago; by road to Casablanca, 2 nights at a winery. At leisure among the vineyards.

Day 14

Return to Santiago airport.

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What our clients say

Our most memorable moments were the views in Rio, the Iguassu Falls, the initial impressions of La Paz, Copacabana and Puno (especially the hotel in Puno with its views of the Lake), the Andean Explorer and Sacred Valley train journeys and the magnificence of the Andes and Macchu Picchu.
MH, Sherborne
Nov 2016
All the walks are memorable for me. I also enjoyed the warm weather, friendly smiling Colombian people (contrary to the negative and scare mongering stories about Colombia I heard in UK).
TU, Ilford
Mar 2018
A well thought out tour with a good balance of culture, scenery and larger towns. The tour leader was excellent and the local guides were friendly and knowledgeable with great enthusiasm for their subjects. Good value for money and would have no problem with recommending JLA and will almost certainly use the company again.
SW, Broxbourne
Nov 2017
Our first trip to S. America was a wonderful experience from start to finish. Everything was very well organised and we couldn't have had a better group leader than tour leader. The local guides were very knowledgable and enthusiastic to share their country. When we booked this holiday we thought it would be our only trip to S. America, primarily to see Machu Picchu but now hearing the tour leader talk about other tours she has run we are eager to see more of the continent with JLA.
FM, Aberdeen
Oct 2018
Iguazu Falls were out of this world. Machu Picchu was very special and the desert was amazing.
IM, Solihull
Jul 2019
"This was our third holiday with JLA and once again they did not disappoint."
PP, Stafford
Mar 2016

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Having caught the travel bug as a child, Millie has travelled all over Latin America before making her home in Buenos Aires for 3 years.
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After graduating in Computer Science, Paul spent seven months travelling from Colombia to Argentina and came home hooked on Latin America.
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A former Journey Latin America tour leader, Sally spent 7 years working, travelling and living throughout Latin America before returning to the UK to help people arrange their own adventures to this wonderful destination.
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Hannah had an early introduction to Latin America when her family moved to Ecuador and she returned to study in Buenos Aires for a year before backpacking across the continent.
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Sophie lived in Chile before joining us and has travelled extensively across Latin America, from Mexico to the furthest tip of Patagonia and beyond to Antarctica.
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After graduating with a degree in Anthropology and History and having been fascinated by Latin America since childhood by the book featuring photos of Nazca, Juliet first visited the region in 2003. Since then, Juliet has visited the majority of countries in Latin America but has particularly extensive experience with Peru, a country she loves for many reasons but not least, its incredible archaeological richness and delicious food!