Over 30 options of guided explorations included with your booking.
Led by certified, expert, and bilingual guides from Explora.
Sit down every evening with a guide to select your explorations.
Explora Guides
Our explorations are always led by a bilingual guide trained at our Explora Guide School, fluent in English or Spanish for groups of up to 8 travelers.
Our guides have an unyielding passion for the great outdoors. Through first-hand experience, they’re each acutely aware of the fragility behind the landscapes we explore and are therefore avid advocates for their conservation.
Through each of our carefully crafted explorations, they seek to unveil the territory’s essence, allowing you to go beyond the surface and delve deeper into untouched nature.
Each day, one of our guides will gladly help you choose the right exploration for your interests and provide further information on each zone.
The Areas We Explore
Amidst the Argentinean Patagonia, this natural rock, mountain, and ice amphitheater offers countless territories to be explored.
Our explorations provide travelers with an in-depth experience of this austral territory,
for which we have outlined 6 different exploration zones. Each zone features the main attractions.
Explore by:
Hike
Overland
Climbing
Self Guided
High Mountain Ascent
Hike
Overland
Climbing
Self Guided
High Mountain Ascent
Explore 144 destinations located in the 3 unique El Chaltén zones:
1. Los Huemules Conservation Reserve
The future of conservation depends on shifting our role in the world: from mere observers to custodians – active protectors of the places we explore and are
part of who we are. It is rare to find a place on Earth in which so much is packed into such a relatively compact area. The Los Huemules Conservation Reserve, where the Explora lodge in El Chalten is located, encloses features that cannot be easily found elsewhere in Patagonia. This allows travelers to set off on exploration routes from the very doorstep of our lodge, thus minimizing transport and road time. The ecosystems it hosts are as varied as the climates it can witness. A place for introverts, its privacy means you can walk for days without ever seeing another person, walking side by side with nature itself.
1. Los Huemules Conservation Reserve
The future of conservation depends on shifting our role in the world: from mere observers to custodians – active protectors of the places we explore and are
part of who we are. It is rare to find a place on Earth in which so much is packed into such a relatively compact area. The Los Huemules Conservation Reserve, where the Explora lodge in El Chalten is located, encloses features that cannot be easily found elsewhere in Patagonia. This allows travelers to set off on exploration routes from the very doorstep of our lodge, thus minimizing transport and road time. The ecosystems it hosts are as varied as the climates it can witness. A place for introverts, its privacy means you can walk for days without ever seeing another person, walking side by side with nature itself.
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2. Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged, towering mountains and numerous glacial lakes scattered within its borders. This area allows travelers to explore a part of the park, encountering the many ecosystems it hosts within. Home to fauna from the sub-Antarctic steppe and woods, the park is a bird-watcher’s paradise, with over 100 species – from the Andean condor to the white-throated caracara – inhabiting the forest and steppe.
2. Parque Nacional Los Glaciares
The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged, towering mountains and numerous glacial lakes scattered within its borders. This area allows travelers to explore a part of the park, encountering the many ecosystems it hosts within. Home to fauna from the sub-Antarctic steppe and woods, the park is a bird-watcher’s paradise, with over 100 species – from the Andean condor to the white-throated caracara – inhabiting the forest and steppe.
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3. Lago del Desierto
Once a center of conflict between two neighboring countries, the Desert Lagoon
(Chile) or Desert Lake (Argentina) is a wildlife enclave around which numerous
Patagonian ecosystems can be observed and explored. Framed by lush forests of
lengas and ñirres, as well as two minor mountain ranges – the Vespignani range and its hanging glaciers to the west, and the Bosque (Forest) range to the east
– this coveted fresh water source spreads over 10 km. from north to south, and approximately 1 km. from east to west. In addition, it’s fed by the Diablo
River as well as numerous streams that replenish and maintain the purity of its waters. Naturally, the site attracts substantial wildlife and irrigated varied ecosystems within a relatively small area
3. Lago del Desierto
Once a center of conflict between two neighboring countries, the Desert Lagoon
(Chile) or Desert Lake (Argentina) is a wildlife enclave around which numerous
Patagonian ecosystems can be observed and explored. Framed by lush forests of
lengas and ñirres, as well as two minor mountain ranges – the Vespignani range and its hanging glaciers to the west, and the Bosque (Forest) range to the east
– this coveted fresh water source spreads over 10 km. from north to south, and approximately 1 km. from east to west. In addition, it’s fed by the Diablo
River as well as numerous streams that replenish and maintain the purity of its waters. Naturally, the site attracts substantial wildlife and irrigated varied ecosystems within a relatively small area
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