Land at Punta Arenas Airport, where a Neblina Forest representative will meet you and take you to and transfer
to Torres del Paine. You will enjoy beautiful landscape and wildlife sightings along the way, arriving at the
lodge. Lunch, a short rest, and then in mid or late afternoon, start the Puma search—by joining the trackers who
will have been out looking for Pumas for you. We find Pumas on 97% of the days, so it is not totally guaranteed
every day.
Your guide will drive you to the closest point available to the Puma, if the trackers found one, and then you will
begin your walk to where the trackers are waiting for you. Your guide will be in regular contact with the
trackers, so you will have frequent updates on what the Puma is doing. Upon reaching the trackers you, will be
able to set up your camera gear and work on taking some good photos of the cats. After 3-5 hours, you will
return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Puma video--a typical day of Puma viewing ...all shots done in one week there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3d3PahBKkI
Overnight at Hotel Refugio Laguna Amarga
(-/L/D)
Note: Distance from Punta Arenas to Refugio Laguna Amarga 355 Km/ 5 hours

After a full breakfast, you will head out into PumaLand with your naturalist guide. Your skilled Puma Trackers
have up since before sunrise searching for a Puma for you. On 97% of the days, we find a Puma early…and then
your guide will drive you to the closest point available to the Puma. At that point, you will begin your walk to
where the trackers are waiting for you. Your guide will be in regular contact with the trackers, so you will have
frequent updates on what the Puma is doing. After 3-5 hours, you will return to the lodge for lunch and a short
rest. In the late afternoon, search for and then track Pumas for another 3-5 hours, then return to the lodge for
dinner and overnight.
Overnight at Hotel Refugio Laguna Amarga
(B/L/D)

Accommodations at the Del Nomande Eco Hotel, Puerto Piramides (B, L, D)

After breakfast, we will drive for approximately four hours south to an exciting new global exclusive of Neblina
Forest: the “Cerro Palomares” Condor Roost Cliff at the private, 20,000-acre “Estancia Olga Teresa” Ranch.
You ride in 4WD car up a slope, gaining 700 feet of elevation until you reach the top of Cerro Palomares, which is
a large, hunchbacked, outlying foothill of the southern tip of the Andes. Once on top, you walk down an open
switchback trail, losing 150 feet of elevation, and arrive to a 3-meter-wide, 50-meter-long series of rock ledges.
From those convenient perches, use your tripod and big lenses to photograph scores or hundreds of
“below-horizon fly-bys” of Andean Condors, which are the heaviest flying creatures in the Americas.
The roost cliff below you normally has 30-80 Andean Condors on it in the late afternoon, and they fly back and
forth in front of you, often below the horizon, offering the world’s most spectacular photo opportunities for
Andean Condors. On 19 November 2018, our team counted 192 Andean Condors at one single moment at the
cliff, which shatters all previous world records by more than 50 birds. More than 100 condors were at the cliffs at
one moment on at least seven other days in November 2018, with counts of 154, 150, and several others over
100.
Nowhere else in the world are Andean Condors so easy to photograph in flight below you, beneath the horizon.
Distant mountains, forests, fields, and ocean channels offer non-sky backgrounds that bring out the plumage
details and head colors of these huge birds. Spend the afternoon until sunset watching these magnificent
creatures soar back and forth, and then drive 80 minutes to Punta Arenas.
Lunch and dinner are included.

Overnight at Hotel Diego de Almagro Punta Arenas
(B/L/D)

Breakfast. At the proper time our driver will transfer you to the airport.
Note: check out of the hotel is at noon.
(B/-/-)

Hotel, Puerto Piramides (B,L,D)