After lunch, choose your own adventure from a variety of activities. Rent a sea kayak for the afternoon or enjoy the sauna, adjacent to a pristine, fresh water stream. Rent a horse, go Flyfishing or simply relax and enjoy a walk along the empty beach.

There are campsites on the property with hot showers and ample firewood and even if it should rain, there´s a barn where you can play a basketball or fotball game. To conclude your day tour, transportation by land will be provided to take you back to Puerto Montt, a 30-minute drive.

Customized multi-day tours by sea kayak or boat are available upon request.

Juan Pablo II Museum
The Juan Pablo II Museum houses the public library on its first floor (with a significant computer area, thanks to the generosity of the Bill Gates Foundation). On the second floor are modest but very well done collections on natural history, archeology and anthropology. Especially noteworthy are the photographs of the 1960 earthquake that devastated the city. There is also a good exhibit dealing with the Monte Verde archeological find - some 35 kilometers west of the city - which has proved to be the home to the earliest signs of human habitation in the Americas. The Monte Verde find, of course, has made archeologists re-think their standard notion that the Americas were settled by indigenous people crossing to Alaska from Siberia.

Angelmo Market:
Certainly one of Chile's best markets for handicraft goods, Angelmo offers everything from locally produced woodcarvings and woolen parkas to exotic llama-skin rugs and blankets imported from Peru. Although Anglemo and its market are about two kilometers west of Puerto Montt, both cities have expanded to such an extent that they have virtually merged together, although Angelmo has retained its own, distinctive identity. Angelmo used to have the doubtful distinction of being one of the principal ports for exporting Chilean wood chips - much to the chagrin of local environmentalists - because the woodchips come mostly from native hardwood trees. More recently, however, the woodchip export business has relocated to Calbuco, further down the coast and is much less obvious in Angelmo than before.

The Mellipulli Market:
While not as large as the Angelmo artisan market, the Mellipulli Market has the distinction of featuring crafts created by the shopowners themselves. The Mellipulli artisan community also features a new "Ecco Cafe" that provides good home-cooked fare and lots of information for visiting tourists.

Petrohue and Lago Todos Los Santos:
Numerous tour operators offer excursions to the Petrohue waterfalls and the Todos Los Santos lake just above the waterfalls. It is an interesting way to spend the day - as the tour van takes you along the shore of Lake Llanquihue (the second largest fresh water lake in South America) to the hamlet of Enseñada before turning north at the foot of the Osorno volcano to the waterfalls and Todos Los Santos lake. If possible, see if the tour operator will stop for few minutes at the very upscale "Yankee-Way Fishing Lodge" in Enseñada, which features very impressive wood carvings and sculptures by a local artisan. The Todos Los Santos lake is the final destination for the day tour, although many tourists book a bus/boat service that takes you across the lake and on into Argentina.

Trekking The Island of Maillen:
CHIP Travel offers a day-long excursion to Maillen Island led by a bilingual guide who spent two years in the 1990s teaching school on the island. Although easily visible from Puerto Montt, Maillen is about an hour's boatride away. The excursion includes a lunch prepared by the local islanders and lots of local history. It is a great way to pass a day while waiting for departure of one of the local boat ferries that takes vacationers to Punta Arenas or the Torres del Paine.

Alerce Andino National Park:
The park was created in 1982 to help preserve the alerce trees which used to dominate the landscape. Alerces, like the California redwoods, are renown for their water-and-insect-resistent timber and have slowly but surely been decimated since the arrival of ´settlers´ in the mid 1800s, who usurped the native populations. Regular bus service (Buses Fierro) to the park leaves from the Puerto Montt bus station (check departure times at the station) and Chile's national forestry service (Conaf) has two small outposts at the park to steer trekkers on a variety of facinating trails and several high-altitude mountain lakes.

Chiloé:
The heartland of Chilean folklore, greener han Washington and Oregon, Chiloé is a rain-drenched archipelago whose wild western woodlands are darker than the Black Forest and traversed by trails that lead to secluded ocean beaches with rolling dunes.
Puerto Montt is the perfect spot, to do a day tour to Chiloé; Ancud is about one and half an hour from Puerto Montt, while Catro is about two hours and a half from Puerto Montt.

After lunch, choose your own adventure from a variety of activities. Rent a sea kayak for the afternoon or enjoy the sauna, adjacent to a pristine, fresh water stream. Rent a horse, go Flyfishing or simply relax and enjoy a walk along the empty beach.

There are campsites on the property with hot showers and ample firewood and even if it should rain, there´s a barn where you can play a basketball or fotball game. To conclude your day tour, transportation by land will be provided to take you back to Puerto Montt, a 30-minute drive.

Customized multi-day tours by sea kayak or boat are available upon request.

Navimag offers trips from Puerto Montt to southern Patagonia, including San Rafael National Park and Puerto Natales, the gateway to world famous Torres del Paine National Park, and also from Puerto Chacabuco to Laguna San Rafael.

Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales:
The trip takes 4 days / 3 nights (times may vary due to weather conditions). For this year there are two boats covering this trip (Puerto Eden and Puerto Magallanes.) The Motonave Magallanes also stops at Puerto Chacabuco for embarking/disembarking of passengers and then continues to Puerto Montt or Puerto Natales.

Please contact our travel agency for detailed information and reservations.