Estancia Day Tour Puerto Natales

Pick up in Puerto Natales and boat 🚤

The Estancia Day Tour Puerto Natales starts at 9:00 a.m. at MacLean Pier in Puerto Bories. Below you will find information on how to get to the location.

After a 30-minute boat ride, we will arrive at the estancia, where a typical country breakfast awaits us.

Breakfast 🍵: Sopaipilla (fried bread) with jam accompanied by tea, coffee, or mate (typical infusion in Chile).

The activity of choice and lunch

After breakfast, we will choose the activity we want to do. You can choose between: 

🐎 Ride on the back of a horse on a route through the entire estancia area together with a horse expert and a guide. 

🥾 Take a hiking route through the mountains where you will learn about the flora and fauna of the area.

After finishing the activity, it is time to eat a typical and traditional Patagonian menu at the Estancia: organic lamb roasted on a spit, along with a good Chilean wine, salad, and homemade sauces. There is also the option of eating hake or the vegetarian option, consisting of pomegranate beans.

Sheepdogs and shearing of a sheep 🐑

After lunch, we will live like an authentic settler of the Peninsula. Life at the ranch revolves around the animals, we will see how the sheepdogs work in a demonstration of how they organize the flock of sheep. Afterward, we will learn how the sheep are sheared, as well as many curiosities about the world of sheep, the classification of wool, holistic management, and regenerative agriculture in coexistence with livestock.

Visit the estancia and return

At the end of all the explanations about the sheep world, you will have a guided tour of all the facilities of the Estancia and we will visit a nearby viewpoint where we will appreciate the views of the Patagonian ecosystem. After this day of rural life in Patagonia, we will head back to our lodging in Puerto Natales, where you will arrive around 4:00 pm, thus ending our Estancia Day Tour Puerto Natales.