The hundreds of tourists who visit this small town every day leave thinking of returning to visit its historic corners, sail through the fjords that surround it, taste its fascinating cuisine with flavors of sea and land, enjoy its hotels and the diverse range of activities, such as the one that Vertice Travel can prepare to live an unforgettable adventure.
Being one of the main cities in the Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Puerto Natales maintains a mix between the rescue of its cultural heritage with modernity and comfort for visitors who arrive daily by sky, sea and land to welcome them.
Its streets are home to lodgings, cafes and restaurants for all tastes and budgets; its waterfront, bathed by the waters of the Canal Señoret , allows to appreciate wild birds, such as black-necked swans or flamingos, posing for immortal postcards in the remains of the famous historic pier that brings to the present the memory of a time of glory of colonization and the heyday of the livestock industry.
The beauty of the city can also be admired from the heights, and you don’t need a plane. With a medium-intensity trekking you can climb Cerro Benítez or Cerro Dorotea and from its viewpoints see the landscape as if it were a painting canvas with its lakes, forests, pampas and ice. Encountering a condor could be a perfect dream and not impossible.
But the history of Puerto Natales and its surroundings began long before, 12,000 years ago the primitive Patagonian man would have lived in the Milodon Cave, a natural monument of great proportions where remains and skin of an extinct animal called Darwin’s Milodon have been found. Walking through its caverns makes you travel back in time and witness the prehistoric value of Chile.
A little more than 100 kilometers from the city is the northwest access to the Torres del Paine National Park, a two-hour overland trip that allows you to admire the pampas, listen to the sound of the wind and, if possible, admire wildlife such as guanacos and foxes, and Patagonian flora such as the classic steppe and scrubland.
Weather permitting, you can sail across the Última Esperanza fjord to the Serrano and Balmaceda glaciers in the Bernardo O’Higgins National Park; these monumental blocks of ice are part of the Southern Ice Fields and are usually a spectacle when their icebergs fall into the water. The same icy waters where the Kawésqar people used to sail from one coast to another in search of shelter and food.
Vertice Travel can make the adventure start right in Puerto Natales, adapting a tailor-made travel program. With adrenaline, following challenging circuits in the heights of hills and glaciers or touring lakes by kayak. If you are looking for more tranquility, hiking through thick lenga forests listening to the sound of birds, or going on a photographic safari waiting patiently for the perfect framing of flora and wildlife, may be a better option.
