We invite you to know the activities that you can carry out in the proximities of our city of Punta Arenas.

SEASON 2009 -2010
(March 2009 - April 2010 )

City Tour Punta Arenas
Time of Duration: 4 hours.
Daily outings: morning or afternoon.

* The Beer Circuit, visits to the brewery where the best beer in Chile takes place with tasting.
* Mirador del Cerro de la Cruz (Observatory Of The Hill Of The Cross) to enjoy a beautiful panoramic view of the city and Magellan's Strait with Tierra del Fuego Island.
* Plaza Muñoz Gamero (Muñoz Gamero Square) declared typical area in 1991, MONUMENT TO HERNANDO DE MAGELLANES and observation of old constructions and Palaces that are next to the Square of Weapons.
* Braun Menendez Museum. This museum, officially the Historical Museum of Magallanes, is located within the Braun-Menéndez Mansion, a National Monument. The museum, inaugurated in February, 1983, traces the discovery, colonization and development of the Magallanes region through historical objects, illustrations and photographs.
* Regional Museum Mayorino Borgatello with natural history and magnificent exhibition of the form of life and history of the aboriginal ones of the region.
* Monumento al Ovejero (Monument To The Shepherd) with their horse, dog and group of sheep.

Type of tour : Private excursion
Frequency : Daily. During all the year round
Minimum : 2 members
Maximum : 14 members
Length of Tour : 4 hours
Required equipment : Sport clothing (boots, windbreaker parka, sun glasses, hat, gloves and scarf).
Included : Transfers and access tickets (2); chauffeur-guide in Spanish.
Guide in other language is not included.

Fuerte Bulnes (Fort Bulnes), Bahía Mansa 
(Mansa Bay) and Puerto del Hambre (Famine Port)
Time of duration: 4 hours and 30 minutes.
Daily outings: 10:00 am.

They are interesting primarily for their historical significance. Puerto del Hambre was an early Spanish settlement along the Strait of Magellan, and Fuerte Bulnes established Chilean authority over the region. To reach these sites, travel south on Route 9.
The circuit heads south of Punta Arenas as far as the Historical site of Fuerte Bulnes ( Fort Bulnes ), 60 kilometers away. Native hardwood forest of lenga, ñirre, and coigüe, as well as the regional calafate bushes, famous for they tasty berries, line the road to the fort. Stay alert for singings of the regional birds: sea gulls; thrushes; ducks; hawks and those known only by their Chilean names such caiquenes ( a type of goose ), bandurrias and other species. Along the way you will also be able to view the Strait of Magallan and see graceful dolphins called " Tonina " in the water. You will pass ranches and fishing coves such as Bahía Mansa (Mild Bay) and Rinconada Bulnes ( Bulnes Corner ). These areas are examples of important economic activities in the region - raising livestock and fishing.
Near Fuerte Bulnes, you will pass a monument marking the geographical center of Chile halfway between Arica and the South Pole. Fuerte Bulnes was Chile´s first outpost in the Magallanes region, established on Oct. 30,1843 during the presidency of Manuel Bulnes. Who decided to place this area under Chilean jurisdiction because of its strategic importance and economic potential. He also wanted to carry out the great desire of Chile´s liberator Bernardo O´Higgins, to claim this.
A stop will also be made at the nearby remains of Ciudad Rey Don Felipe ( City of King Don Felipe ), better known as Puerto del hambre ( Port Famine ). It is a historic area, cultural attractive in which the Sarmiento de Gamboa commander founded City of King Don Felipe on March, 1584 had a tragic ending: its inhabitants died of starvation. Years later The Thomas Cavendishm captain arrived to the area and found the mortal remains of the old colony Which he called "Port Famine", nowadays in Spanish Puerto del Hambre, was the disastrous first Spanish attempt to establish a colony in the area and gain control of the Strait of Magellan.

Type of tour : Private and Regular Excursions
Frequency : Daily. During all the year
Minimum : 2 members
Maximum : 14 members
Length of Tour : 4 hours and half
Required equipment : Sport clothing (boots, windbreaker parka, sun glasses, hat, gloves and scarf).
Included : Transfers, chauffeur-guide in Spanish.
Guide in other language is not included

Penguin Colony in Seno Otway
Time of duration: 4 hrs.
Daily outings: 16:00 pm.

Otway gulf penguin colony is 65 km. from Punta Arenas, at the northeast of the Brunswick peninsula. Between September and April about 6,000 specimens of the Magallanes specie (Spheniscus magellanicus) uses this place to nest. These penguins build a 50 centimeters cave where they place two eggs. These eggs incubation takes 38 to 42 days, after which parents feed the chicks until 80 days of being born. Once the chicken develops appropriated feathers for life in water, the adults stop feeding them and they start the annual molt. Once it finishes, the adults leave the colony and go to the sea in the middle of March and return to the same colony year after year. The young ones return exceptionally to the colony, however they won't reproduce until 4 to 6 years after being born.
LOCALES NAMES :
The Magellan's penguins is called too Pájaro Bobo de Magallanes, burro and choncha (sur); Pingüino del Sur, Pingüinos Magallánico y Pingüino Patagónico. In portugués it is knew as: Pingüim-de-magalhaes. In English as Magellanic Penguin.
DISTRIBUTION IN CHILE:
From Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego until Aconcagua.
HABITAT: coastal zone
CHARACTERISTIC OF HEAD AND NECK FOR IDENTIFICATION:
Head and neck black. White and wide line surrounding the face from the forehead, auriculars and upper neck; it's not joined in the center of the forehead. Black and reversed "U" on the white chest and flanks Size: 27 - 28
DIET AND EATING HABITS:
The basic food of Magellanes penguin are fish, cephalopoda and crustaceous, varying their diet according to their availability. They feed during the day diving after their prey. Most of them reach a diving depth between 20 and 50 meters, being able to dive down to 90 meters deep.
WHY THEY ARE CALLED PENGUINS?
 They are called like this becouse of they have an appareance very similar to Gran Alca, bird that was called pingüino, nowadays (the latest couple died in 1844, Islandia), who inhabit in the Nort Atlantic ISLAND. This resemblance made a confuse between the old marines who called the same manner to our actual penguin so now it knowing as Pingüino or Pájaro Bobo.

Type of tour : Private and Regular Excursions
Frequency : Daily from October 15th to March 15th
Minimum : Based on private services, 2 persons
Maximum : 14 Persons
Length of Tour : 4 hours
Required equipment : Heavy Clothing (boots, windbreaker parka, sun glasses, hat, gloves and scarf). 
It doesn't Include entrance to the Park: $6.000.- Chilean pesos per person. (€ 8 OR U$D 14)
Included : Transport chauffeur in Spanish.
Guide in other language is not included

PATAGONIAN FAUNA IN LOLITA FARM
Time of Duration: 3 hours and Half.
Daily outings: 10:00 a.m and 15:00 p.m

You can enjoy a trip among 200 guanacos, the main species in the plains, and also admire the ñandú, the largest bird in size in the Patagonia.
Some hairy armadillos, which are the only living relatives of the giant fossils like the milodon or the Megathere. Cougar, Elegant black-necked swans, bandurrias ( wild geese) already adapted to the cold weather, the southernmost parrots, caranchos (Carrion hawks), the only birds of prey that group in flocks, the Caiquen and Caranca, a kind of wild geese, in wich the male has a different color that the female.                  

Type of tour : Private and Regular Excursions
Frequency : Daily from October 15th to March 15th
Minimum : 2 person
Maximum : 14 Person
Length of Tour : 3,5 hours
Required equipment : Heavy Clothing (boots, windbreaker parka, sun glasses, hat, gloves and scarf).
It doesn't Include entrance to the Park: $4.000.- Chilean pesos per person. (€ 6 OR U$D 10.-)