TIERRA DEL FUEGO NATIONAL PARK

A NATURAL PARADISE

Snow-covered hills, bogs with mysterious reddish glow, valleys of splendid greenery and flowing rivers and lakes of exceptional beauty… If you like walking, exploring and contemplating Mother Nature in a quiet setting, this excursion is for you!

Snow-covered hills, bogs with mysterious reddish glow, valleys of splendid greenery and flowing rivers and lakes of exceptional beauty… If you like walking, exploring and contemplating Mother Nature in a quiet setting, this excursion is for you!
Linda and Terry, our middle-aged couple is eager to visit Tierra del Fuego National Park. They decide to explore with our expert guides. Created in 1960 to protect the southernmost forests of the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego National Park covers an area of 69,000 hectares. Even when this is one of the most popular tours in Tierra Turismo, we offer a different experience: we take our guests in small groups to unexplored trails reaching hidden corners in the woods.
We take National Route 3 form Ushuaia and stop at a Panoramic Point in the Beagle Channel. Then we get to Tierra del Fuego National Park and begin our trekking, to the gaze at Lapataia. At Lapataia Bay, a road sign indicates the end of this route and the distance to its opposite extreme of the country in the City of La Quiaca, on the border with neighboring Bolivia.
In our tours we hike some of the trails of this exceptional forest. Linda and Terry choose our morning tour, but you can also pick our afternoon trip (6 hours each approximately). As our guests did, after half day of walking, we get a good idea of the uniqueness of this particular ecosystem.
“The guides transmit us their knowledge for this perfect place with great passion. They made us live an unforgettable time”, says Linda.
There are many coves and points shaping beaches and cliffs, creating a perfect shelter for sea fauna. Mountain ranges cross the park dividing it into valleys which make access difficult to reach. Unlike other Andean-Patagonian parks, it has forests by the seashore, six kilometers along the Beagle Channel: Lapataia Bay, meaning “woody bay” or “bay of wood” in the Yámana tongue.
During our walk through Acimagui Lake and Ensenada Bay we spot a runaway pack of red foxes! Terry is an amateur birdwatcher and he was lucky enough to find a black carpenter (Campephilus Magellanicus) on the path leading to the Ensenada Bay. This specimen of carmine crest nests between the Chilean Andes, southwest Argentina and Tierra del Fuego Island. It was chosen by the locals as the Bird of Tierra del Fuego Province.
Great pictures of cauquenes (a short-billed goose), ibis and even an Andean condor were invaluable memories of this trip.
“Snow-covered hills, bogs with mysterious reddish glow, valleys of splendid greenery with flowing rivers and lakes of exceptional beauty… exploring this National Park with Tierra Turismo was a real highlight of our holidays!”, says Terry. 

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