Horse Ride Across the Andes » Itinerary

Please note that flights for this holiday are quoted separately.Travel to the ranch at Huechahue near the town of San Martin. After a late lunch there will be an evening ride to the cliffs where the condors and eagles nest.

Today you ride all day on the Estancia. Follow the Huechahue stream through basalt canyons, gallop across water-meadows, sending plovers and ibis screeching into the air.

Set off on your ride towards Chile. Over the course of the next eight days cross from the wide open spaces of Argentine Patagonia, over the Andes to the thickly forested slopes of the Chilean Lake District.

Ride across rivers, through Indian reservations, over ridges and through magnificent gorges as you head towards the high mountains and the Chilean border.

Continue riding through the beautiful Patagonian landscape.
As you approach the border the landscape begins to change quite dramatically from arid desert to lush greenery.

Enjoy your last full day in Argentina. The towering snow-capped peak of Lanin Volcano serves as a beacon on this ride. Lanin is half in Chile and half in Argentina and it is here that you cross the border.

At around lunchtime, at the base of Lanin Volcano in a forest of monkey-puzzle trees, you reach the Argentine/Chilean border. Here you are met by your Chilean hosts, swap horses and carry on.

Ride through forests, passing lakes in the shadow of snow-capped volcanoes. Stay in your final campsite at Puente Barras, where your hosts’ families have been farming for generations.

Enjoy a morning bathe before the three-hour drive back to Argentina and your last night on the estancia.
Ride out on the estancia this afternoon if you have the energy.

Take a morning ride before transferring back to the airport this afternoon.
Please note that flights for this holiday are quoted separately.