Argentina & Chile
A 10-day trip to Patagonia
Patagonia is the end of the earth — glaciers, granite towers, and a wind that never stops at the bottom of the world.
Patagonia is the wild southern tip of South America — a vast, sparsely populated region of mountains, glaciers, and steppe, split between Chile and Argentina.
The icons are Torres del Paine (Chile) and El Chaltén/El Calafate (Argentina) — granite towers, the Perito Moreno glacier, and some of the world's great hikes. Add Tierra del Fuego at the very bottom for the full 'end of the world' trip.
It's expensive, remote, and the weather is famously brutal — go in the southern summer (November–March), pack for four seasons in a day, and book the parks and the Refugios ahead. The reward is the most dramatic landscape in the Americas.
Trip length
10 days
Best time to go
November–March (southern summer)
What your 10-day plan includes
- A day-by-day itinerary with neighborhoods clustered so you spend less time in transit.
- Real budget awareness — a target, an estimate, and a status you can dial up or down.
- Recommendations shaped by your pace, food priorities, group, and must-dos.
- Swap anything, improve any day, refine in any direction without starting over.
How to plan 10 days in Patagonia
- Book Refugios and park entries months ahead — summer sells out.
- Fly between the hubs (El Calafate, Punta Arenas, Puerto Natales) — the distances are vast.
- Pack for four seasons in a day — wind, rain, sun, and snow, even in summer.
- Do the W trek in Torres del Paine and Laguna de los Tres in El Chaltén — the two icons.
- Start sunrise hikes early and in the dark; the towers clear most often at first light.
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