DAY 01: PUNTA ARENAS: Reception. Navigation penguin nests Magdalena Island (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays)
Reception and transfer to your hotel.
15:00 Transfer from your hotel to the embarking peer. Navigation to Magdalena Island, nearby Marta Isle, its part of the Natural Monument of The Penguins, natural habitat for more than 120.000 Magellan penguins and one of the largest nesting areas for these birds in southern Chile, paradise for birdwatchers.
Arriving in the island is a spectacle. It is two-hour navigating across the Strait of Magellan, where it is possible to see spectacular panoramic views of Punta Arenas, the plains of Tierra del Fuego and the oilrigs of Cabo Negro or Laredo Bay. All this to arrive in this place, at 35 km from the City of Punta Arenas and immerse within the proper strait. Once there the landscape is even more beautiful, with penguins, cormorants and sea lions, among others, are the protagonists. For an hour we will be able to watch the thousands of penguins and nests on a walk through paths that run from the coast up to the island’s highest tip, where the lighthouse holding the Center of Environmental Interpretation, with the history of the strait and the local fauna, is located.
Transfer to your hotel.

DAY 02: PUNTA ARENAS: City tour in Punta Arenas and Fort Bulnes
Breakfast. Tour Fort Bulnes. Old experiences invite us to evoke the historic Fort Bulnes, located south of Punta Arenas (km marker 58) and an unforgettable landmark for those who inhabited this place. The fort appears bordering the legendary Strait of Magellan and then penetrating by Santa Ana Point. It is nowadays a reconstruction of that first Chilean military post in austral lands, inaugurated during the administration of President Manuel Bulnes by the expedition of the Ancud Schooner, on October the 30th of 1843, and abandoned in 1848 when the population moved up to the current location of the City of Punta Arenas, first Chilean enclave in the Austral Zone. On the way back, and in the vicinity of Fort Bulnes, are the ruins of the City of King Felipe II of Spain, founded by Sarmiento de Gamboa in 1584, where 300 personas perished of cold and hunger, being since known as Port of Hunger. Return to the City of Punta Arenas.
In the afternoon half day tour in the city. Punta Arenas was the first permanent civilized human settlement in the Austral Patagonia; history is revived at each of its street corners, remembering the adventures and experiences of its pioneers, those who brought it to life on December the 18th of 1848 as an incipient colony and in just a few years turned it into the most important cultural, industrial, commercial and livestock center in the zone.
The tour takes us through well designed avenues and plazas and some of the city’s 30 monuments, including a fascinating visit to the Salesian Museum Maggiorino Borgatello, where we can appreciate its magnificent collections of Magellanean flora and fauna specimens, and exclusive craftsmanship and folklore relics from the people who inhabited the zone, such as the Yagan, the Ona and Alacalufe. Panoramic views of the city and the Strait of Magellan appear as a backdrop, making of this tour one of the most thorough in the City of Punta Arenas.

DAY 03: PUNTA ARENAS: Transfer airport or bus terminal
In due time transfer to the airport or the bus terminal to continue your trip.


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