Wild Pumas in Torres del Paine NP, Chile

This is as new safari itinerary we added to our program in October 2019. So popular was it that some of our guests booked to return the following year. Sadly the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic which resulted in worldwide travel bans and movement lockdowns forced us to postpone both of our scheduled safaris to this spectacular destination in July and November 2020, but we remain committed to returning in 2021. Contact us HERE now to secure your spot on one of our departures.

DATES FOR 2021 ARE JULY 27-AUG 3/4 (FULL) AND NOV 3-10/11

STARTING FROM SANTIAGO 

Our safari begins in Santiago, Chile, with the first night booked for you on a Bed & Breakfast basis at the Santiago Airport Holiday Inn - right outside the airport only a short stroll from the airport buildings. Here you will meet the other safari participants as well as your guides, and prepare for the very early flight departure to Punta Arenas the next morning.

We return to Santiago at the end of the trip and include another night at the Airport Holiday Inn for those who will not be taking late-night flights out that same evening.

PUNTA ARENAS - THE SOUTH

From Santiago we will fly south, to the southernmost part of Chile near the tip of South America, where we will meet our buses for the scenic drive to our lodgings in Torres del Paine. Get you cameras out for the journey - the landscapes get more and more spectacular, and we will see many indigenous birds during the drive. In 2019 we were fortunate to see & photograph an Andean Condor on a kill on this journey. We will stop for lunch at the small town of Puerto Natales en route.

TORRES DEL PAINE

The aptly named Towers of Paine are spectacular monolithic mountain peaks at the southern end of the Andes Mountain range, and these will be the backdrop for our six days and nights of photography. While we are here to track and photograph pumas (aka mountain lions or cougars Puma concolor) we will take time to photograph the spectacular landscape as well as the many species of birds, ducks and other wildlife such as the guanaco...a major prey of the pumas in these hills.


While on this safari we will be participating in a novel program set up by a group of enthusiastic wildlife guides and photographers in Chile, whereby they have encouraged sheep farmers who previously would have shot pumas as competitors to their farming, to open up their land to tourism. With patience and diligence many pumas have now become habituated to close approaches by humans with their camera paraphernalia, and in fact several farmers have now got rid of sheep and focus entirely on puma tourism on their conservancies.

​Our safari fee includes conservation fees that contribute heavily to this initiative!

Join us to get images like these...
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