Excursions
After breakfast you will start your spectacular journey exploring the beauty of Patagonia by choosing from a variety of activities including walks, bicycle rides, horse rides, and tours in van discovering new landscapes, stopping at the most exotic and remote corners of Patagonia. At Awasi excursions are private (with a guide and a vehicle assigned to each villa) and are planned according to the pace and preferences of each guest. The times, duration and routes of each excursion are defined in line with the special interests and wishes of each guest. Guests can also tour the private reserve from their villas on their own and explore the different paths, observing the native flora and fauna.
Torres del Paine National Park
Enjoy flora and fauna up close by visiting Torres del Paine National Park known as being one of the most emblematic sites of Chilean Patagonia. It dazzles you with its magnificent scenery of jagged mountains and its lakes of glacial origin with ever- changing turquoise hues.
The Torres del Paine National Park habitat melds together a wide array of ecosystems, making it a treasure for Chilean wildlife. It provide shelter to over 120 avian species, 272 plant species and 25 mammal species. Distinctive among these are the puma, which is active mostly in the evening and at night; guanacos and ñandús that graze in groups in the steppes, and the symbols of the Chilean national emblem: the condor, one of the largest birds in the world, and the huemul, an elegant deer in danger of extinction.
This biodiversity of glaciers, mountain ranges, forests and waterfalls give rise to a vast array of plant communities that are found in four main biotic areas: the Patagonian steppes, represented by cushions of plants and grasses that adorn the paths with green and brown hues; the pre-Andean brush, where you can see notros (Firebush) and calafates (Chil. berberis); the Magellanic forest that surprises you with the height of its lenga, ñirre and coigüe beech trees; and finally, the Andean desert with its frutillas del diablo (Devil’s strawberry) and llaretas (Andean cushion), mountain species that grow thanks to the ice-melts and abrupt changes of temperature.