Seno Mayo

Leaving from Puerto Punta Bandera,** we sail through the Canal de los Témpanos until we enter the Seno Mayo of Lake Argentino, the largest and southernmost of the country’s lakes.

The first disembarkation is at Bahía Toro, for an interpretative walk accompanied by a guide. A tour of the Andean Patagonian Forest leads us to discover a great variety of cherry trees, cinnamon trees, lengas and ñires, and even a centenary specimen of cherry tree with a trunk of more than three meters in diameter up to a stream fed by a waterfall from where it is possible to observe a formation of calcareous rocks, whose palisade is about 180 meters high and 100 meters wide.

Back on board the navigation continues to the next disembarkation point, an environment from where the Mayo Glacier and the hanging glacier of Cerro Negro hang.

After disembarking at Cerro Negro, a new hike, which will extend for one kilometer, will provide more details of the Andean Patagonian Forest and its vegetation, typical of the mountainous regions of southern Chile and southwestern Argentina where mountain forests predominate.

The stream will guide the group to a stone wall, an amphitheater of waterfalls from where you can appreciate the hanging glacier with wide views of a landscape that leaves you in awe.

Back on board, and the navigation continues to the North Wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier, touring its front until disembarking at the floating dock of Puerto Moreno, where you will disembark at the foot of the famous walkways and will be able to walk along them for more than an hour to enjoy its typical balconies that offer panoramic views of the different fronts of the Perito Moreno Glacier.

Finally you will sail back to Punta Bandera and from there to Calafate by bus.

Private services can return directly to El Calafate by land after the visit to Pasarelas (combined option).