This is a full-day experience that will allow us to get to know the northern part of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego, visiting the small city of Porvenirand the King Penguin colony in Useless Bay.
We will start early in the morning, around 07:00 leaving the hotel from Punta Arenas, to go to the Tres Puentes terminal to board a two-hour ferry that will take us to Porvenir on Tierra del Fuego Island. From Tres Puentes we will cross the Strait of Magellan, a historic 583 km long channel that connects the waters of the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic. In Porvenir we will visit the Fernando Cordero Rusque Museum with samples of fauna, pioneering cinema in Chile, gold exploitation and a collection of archeology and ethnography of the Selknam, ancient inhabitants of the Patagonian territory.
After enjoying a delicious local lunch, We will continue bordering Bahía Inútil, crossing an island that surprises with its endless pampas and its horizon that projects to infinity.
On the way we will be able to see various birds, sheep ranches and herds of Guanacos b>, a South American camelid related to the llama and alpaca. After about 114 km of travel we will reach the King Penguin Park where a permanent colony of this species resides, the largest in size after the emperor penguin.
These large penguins are the ones that dive best and dive to great depths to reach those places where schools of squid are frequent. During the summer season it is also possible to see some chicks, a beautiful experience.
We will leave the park heading towards Primera Angostura, the narrowest point of the strait, only 5 km wide. There we will cross back to the continent on a ferry that takes 20 minutes, navigation after which we will take a route of about 200 km until we reach Punta Arenas.
Unique experience, which you cannot miss if you come to Magallanes!!