Excursions
Tenaún - Mechuque
Address: Mechuque island .Type: Full day
Highlights: boat navigation, viewpoint "muelle de las islas" (islands dock), bird watching.
Duration: 7 hours
Lemuy Island
Address: Lemuy Island, Puqueldon, Los Lagos Region, Chile .Type: Full Day
Highlights: heritage churches, native forest, wood craftsmen.
Duration: 8 hours
This excursion takes place on the third largest island in the Archipelago. Nature and local traditions will be part of this adventure. Crossing its forests, we will meet heritage churches, and its picturesque coastal towns.
We will have lunch in a typical environment of Chiloé, and to end with a walk along the beach, where we can see unique flora and fauna of the place.
Churches route
Address: Rilán - Tenaún .Type: Full day
Highlights: world heritage churches declared by UNESCO
Duration: 7 hours
In this journey we will visit the next churches:
- Rilan´s peninsula: Saint Marie
- Castro: Saint Francis
- Nercón: Patron Saint of Nercon, Lady of the grace
- Dalcahue: Patron Saint of Dalcahue, Lady of the sorrows
- Achao: Patron Saint of Achao, Saint Marie of Loreto
In all the churches we´ll talk about their stories and secrets to the key keepers, assigned by the community where the chruch is located
Dalcahue - Quinchao island
Address: Quinchao island .Type: Full day
Highlights: heritage churches, artisan market.
Duration: 6 hours
Castro: City and fjord
Address: Castro city .Type: Half day
Highlights: navigation through the fjord, churc UNESCO world heritage, Palafitos.
Duration: 3 hours
We´ll navigate throught the Castro bay and know the seashore culture.
Our captains are Don Oncho or Don Raul, both boats are handmade by its owners
River dolphins and sealions will join us in this adventure.
We´ll disembark at Castro to take a walk at the sorroundings of the palafitos
Península de Rilán
Address: Rilan, Castro, Chile .
Type: Half dayHighlights: Rural tourism.
Duration: 4 hours
On this tour, we will visit and get to know the rural life of our neighbors in the Rilán Peninsula with all their cultural wealth and their own identity, to learn from life in the chilote countryside
Chiloé National Park
Address: Parque Nacional Chiloé, Chile .Type: Full day
Highlights: Trakking, flora and fauna, local food.
Duration: 8 hours
The excursion through to Chiloé´s National Park is a journey to immerse yourself in its infinite nature and its great biodiversity.
We´ll walk on the forest at inside of Chiloe´s National Park, but also, at the Cucao´´s beach where we can see the "Macheros" (System for grow and harvest musles).
We´ll lunch with Morelia at her restaurant "tradiciones de Morelia" she may tell us about her entrepreneurship and how she earned a recognizon of GIAHS by the FAO.
Chepu
Address: Chepu, Ancud, Chile .Type: Full Day
Highlights: Nature
Duration: 8 hours
We´ll travel to the northwest of the island to meet Doña Enriqueta and Don Fernando, they´ll show us how do they do a grills at a bonfire, also, we´ll enjoy a lovely trip on train throught their forest wich is a conservation project of 300 Hectares of native forest.
Nearby there is a sunken forest as a result of the tsunami caused by the 60´s earthquake.
If the weather allows it, we´ll enjoy a navigation in the Río Chepu where birds of the sector such as cormorants, herons, and ducks can be spotted.
City Tour Dalcahue
Address: Dalcahue, Chiloe, Chile .Type: Full Day
Highlights: Craft Market, church, museum, Local food.
Duration: 4 hours or less
We´ll visit the craft markets and its artisans, the church, the museum and its rich gastronomy at the "Cocinerias" in a boat shaped palafito.
At the cocinerias we´ll meet Doña Clarita or Doña Lula
Pingüineras Islote Conejo
Address: Queilén, Chiloe, Chile .Type: Full Day
Highlights: Sighting of penguins, birds and marine mammals.
Duration: 8 hours
We travel to the town of Queilen, where we will embark to visit the Magellan penguin colonies present during the summer season.
It is a navigation where we can enjoy the landscape and the experience on board, while tasting local seafood.
You can see different species of birds such as penguins, cormorants, seagulls, as well as Chilean dolphins and southern dolphins. Between the months of April and May, it is also possible to observe colonies of Fin Whales that visit the sector.
