Multi-sport | Horseback riding | Sea Kayaking | Skiing | Trekking |
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Forest & Hotsring Ride 5 days
Day1 Santiago- Temuco - Pucón
Reception at the Temuco's airport(early morning flight from Santiago) and drive to Pucón. Enjoy a get-together lunch to discuss the itinerary for the following day. The rest of the evening will be free for walking around town, have a siesta, swim on the lake, relax, or maybe booking an optional adventure such as rafting or biking. Overnight at the Hotel or Hostería in Pucón. (L)
*If arriving at the evening, a get-together dinner would replace lunch*
Day 2 Pucón- El Cañi- Llancalil
After a hearty breakfast, drive 30km to Huepil at the foot of El Cañi Cordillera.
At Huepil stables, beautifuly nestled among 300 years old Coihues, meet your local guides, together with their treasured horses. Take part in a short briefing and enjoy a delicious lunch. When everything is ready warm up at the "Picadero" and start riding over the Pehuenche Trail that crawls the slopes of Cordillera del Cañi. This path is used nowadays as an important link among many houses and small communities spread on the hills and local farmers to transport their produce on ox-carts just like their ancestor did hundred years ago. By the evening we arrive in Llancalil lagoon with open fields suitable for galloping. After a refreshing swim on the lagoon start driving down to Huife Hotsprings, a beautifully conditioned spa where we enjoy dinner, a thermal bath and optional massages. Spend the night on comfortable and beautiful wooden cabins placed by the Liucura crushing river amidst a high and dense forest. (B,L-,D)
Day3 Llancalil- Panqui
Ride 3hrs ascending by old logging trails until entering the primeval domain of the ancient Coihue and Araucaria Trees on the heart of Cordillera del Cañi. The horses advance silently on this cathedral-like atmosphere until reaching the pristine Alicia lagoon, an ancient volcanic crater covered by deep green waters and surrounded by umpassable thick forestry. After lunch at the lagoon start descending from the mountain ridge and arrive within 2hrs approx. into the unexpected Panqui Hotsprings. Here enthroned in the green rain temperate forest we find 10 “native american Sioux tipis”, open air thermal pools, baths of mud, a traditional indigenous sauna, Watsu massage and a “medicine wheel”. After getting in tone with mother nature we pleasantly sleep on the tipis equipped with comfortable beds. (B,L-,D)
Day4 Panqui- Llancalil
After relaxing around Panqui´s pristine surroundings and stretching the legs on its attractive trails we start riding back over the Cordillera del Cañi arriving back on Llancalil valley at middle evening. After a refreshing bath on the lagoon we drive down to the township of Pucón where we overnight at the Hotel or Hostería.(B,L-)
Day5 Pucon- Santiago
Spend the morning touring around Pucón. After lunch, drive back to Temuco airport on time to catch the evening flight back to Santiago or onwards Patagonia. (B)
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