Day 1

Arrival at Bariloche’s international airport where a private transfer will take you to your hotel, located in the centre of this beautiful city surrounded by lakes and mountains, situated in the very heart of the Patagonian Andes. Depending on your arrival time, you will have time to visit the city and do some last-minute shopping for the horseback ride. In the afternoon your guide will meet the group at the hotel to give you a brief outline of what we will spend the next few days doing. Dinner at a traditional steak restaurant. Dinner, Overnight at Hotel.

Day 2 (5 – 6 hours of riding)

Transfer to the area of the Pichileufu River, located 35 km from Bariloche where we will meet our guide, his assistants, and the horses with whom we will spend the next few days. To get to Pichileufu, we cross one of the most important ranches in the area, the El Condor ranch, whose activity is the breeding of sheep and cattle and most likely we will see some of these large herds of cows or sheep that graze in this field. Assignment of horses and equipment. Brief talk about safety and details of the ride. The ride takes us to the heart of the pre-cordillera located between rocky mountain formations and the openness of the Patagonian steppe. 

After lunch at a ranch post, we continue our journey in this pristine environment. Overnight in camp, surrounded by nature and without any noise from society, we review this first day of our adventure. Overnight in Camp.

Day 3 (6 – 8 hours of riding) 

After a delicious breakfast, we will leave behind the landscape of gentle hills and deep valleys and begin to climb a trail used by the local people to move their animals to reach their verandas. We will arrive at the Paso Sin Nombre at 1,700m. Leaving this area among the rocks, we find a landscape that opens up to the immensity of a huge valley in the middle of the mountain range, the area of Alto Chubut. The journey continues for a few more hours until we reach an idyllic location surrounded by an ancient lenga forest where we stay in a mountain refuge. Overnight stay in mountain refuge.

Day 4 (5 – 6 hours of riding) 

This morning we will go down the valley of the Pantanoso stream, leaving behind the wooded area of the Foyel. First we pass by some solitary lagoons and finally we return to the waters of the Chubut River, which the day before appeared as a small stream in its source area in the high peaks and which is becoming more and more important. The landscape is wild, sometimes almost violent, but always breathtakingly magnificent. We set up our camp on the banks of the river and spend another night in this environment of nature in its purest state. Overnight in Camp.

Day 5 (5 – 6 hours of riding)

We will leave behind the forests of the rocky mountain range and continue descending, leaving the area of Alto Chubut, to first pass by an old and abandoned gold, silver and lead mine and surely the inhabitants of this place, the Miranda family will tell us some stories of the past and also of their present life. Now we are only two hours away from our special mountain refuge El Sapucai where a delicious meal, a hot shower and time to rest and enjoy the comforts of our small establishment awaits us. Overnight stay in mountain refuge El Sapucai.

Day 6 (6 – 8 hours of riding)

We will climb the mountain range to appreciate the panoramic view of the surrounding Andes. We are fascinated by the dexterity of the Criollo horse crossing different terrains: mallines, lenga forests and rocky terrains. At the end of this climb, a 360 degree view, where we will be able to appreciate the lagoons where we will have lunch in front of the Cordillera with the eternal snow. We will return by another trail that goes through forests of stunted ñires and old lenga forests until we reach our refuge. Overnight stay in mountain refuge El Sapucai.

Day 7 (2 – 3 hours of riding)

Today is our last day with our horses. We will follow the course of the Chubut River until we reach the Escuela Vieja. It is a quiet ride, which offers us another spectacle of unique landscapes and little by little the first villages of the people who live at the exit of this valley are appearing. We will share one more picnic with our baqueanos before leaving them behind. A last trip by minibus will take us to the city of Bariloche. A return trip that we spend mostly in silence, as there is so much to review from our ride of the last six days on horseback. Overnight in Hotel.

Day 8

A private transfer takes you according to your flight itinerary from the hotel to the airport.