Itinerary for the beginners trail-riding program

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  DAY ONE

  will be spent on the farm. You arrive at 1pm, we welcome you, show you around and bring you to your room where you can store away your things. Later on we start the program with some easy exercises and basic riding gymnastics designed to teach you how to balance. We continue training with the horses in the pasture to learn the horses' many gaits: walk, trot, canter and gallop.

  DAY TWO

  Sleep in in the morning then stroll around the farm and pastures, or take a walk up the mountain enjoying the great views out over the volcanoes. Around midday we'll go get the horses and you'll learn how to prepare and saddle your horse under observation your guide and trainer. Then we'll leave for a 3-4 hour ride through the Mapuche Indian community Quelhue, and practice what we've learned so far out in the fields. We pass by the Mapuche settlement, cross a little creek and have a nice canter or gallop on the banks of Trancura River.

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  DAY THREE

  Today we take off for a two-day ride to the "Cerros de Quelhue" Forest Reserve, the protected area which borders the farm. Again passing by the Mapuche settlement, we ride up into the mountains until we reach a abandoned farm in the rainforest were we build our camp for the night right between the grazing horses. We prepare a typical Chilean "asado al palo" in which the meat is barbecued on long bamboo sticks.

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  DAY FOUR

  Early in the morning we'll light the fire again and prepare hot coffee for you for breakfast. After we've eaten we'll take bridles and lassos and go round up the horses. After cleaning and saddling, a job that by now everyone will be able to do on their own, we'll be on our way, riding between huge Mañio and Coighue trees, leaving the mountains behind and heading back to the farm. In the evening we'll drive you down to town, although you may of course feel free to stay longer if you want.