Andean Lakes - four day trailride in National Park Villarrica

The trail is guide by an Chilean arriero (as the chilean cowboys are called) and an English and Spanish speaking guide. We sleep in tents, all our luggage we take with us on the horses. Cooking, putting up the tents etc., will be done together by the group. Everyone should to their own ability, take care of their own horses.

This pack trip leads us to some unique and amazing landscapes: from dense rainforest to sandy, desert like high mountain areas to swampy high planes and over snow covered passes.

This is a ever changing landscape, almost impossible to catch it in photos, you turn around a corner, cross a pass and you see one mountain ridge behind another, covered with the immense rainforests of the northern Patagonia.

This landscape to is fragile, plants grow extremely slow in these heights of the Patagonian Andes, ecological systems are very fragile, and should not be interfered or altered by e.g. bringing in other species.

On these trail rides we work closely with the administration of this part of the National Park in order to establish rules and regulations which allow us to do this ride minimizing the possible damage.

For that reason the number of excursions as well as the number of riders per tour is limited.

Facts of the Trail Dates Itinerary:
1.day: In the afternoon we take an initial ride crossing the Mapuche Indian Community Quelhue, decide which horse matches with which rider and which horses we will take with us. Either this evening or the next morning we move to our Villarrica base camp at "Paraiso Escondido" Valley.
	2.day: After riding through dense forest in the beginning, soon as we gain some height, we leave the woods and ride trough a hilly area, lower vegetation, bushes. At noon we reach the lava and snow fields in the shadow of volcano Quetrupillan. This is the kingdom of the condor and we get a good chance to meet this giant bird. About 3 hours later we reach Laguna Azul, a deep blue lake, where we will set up the tents.
3.day: From Laguna Azul we are heading towards Laguna Blanca, crossing a huge field of volcanic stones and ride around an ancient side crater of Quetrupillan. From Laguna Blanca on the landscape changes  to a desert like lava sand area, interrupted by fields of snow. We ride on towards” Laguna los Patos” and return to the camp at Laguna Azul in the evening.
	4. day: Leaving Laguna Azul we ride back to the “Paraiso Escondido” valley, in the evening a Chilean Barbeque "al Palo" and "choripan" are waiting for us at the Farm. Returning to Pucón in the evening.
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