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.
- A full programme of excursions to Torres del Paine National Park
- Shore excursions on the Antarctic cruise
- Activities at the vineyard near Santiago
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.
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 Torres del Paine.
Days 3-4
Expeditions in Torres del Paine National Park.
Day 5
By road to Punta Arenas, overnight.
Day 6
Fly to King George Island, board MV Ocean Nova.
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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