Start: Day 1 at 12:00 pm (October and April) or 2:30 pm (November to March) in Puerto Natales Bus Station.
End: Day 2 at 9:30 pm in Puerto Natales Bus Station.
Day 1: Departure from Puerto Natales.
The program starts with you being in the Puerto Natales Bus Station, from where you will go to the Portería Laguna Amarga where you will enter to the Torres del Paine National Park. After that, you will be able to take other land transport to the Welcome Center (not included), where you will have to register. You will walk to the Central refugio, where you will spend the night.
Day 2: Base of Torres del Paine Trek and arrival to Puerto Natales (22 km, 8 to 9 hours).
You will get up early to start hiking to the Base of Torres del Paine. You will begin with an ascent trek of around 3 hours, in which you will go through a forest at the foot of the Almirante Nieto Mount until reaching the moraine, the starting point of the heaviest part of the trek. After going up by this path, you will get to the Base of Torres del Paine, where if the weather allows it, you will admire the landscape formed by this granite elevations and the lagoon of glacier source. After staying there for a while, during which you will recover energy and take pictures, you will start the walk back to the Welcome Center and then to the portería, to take the bus back to the Puerto Natales Bus Station, where the activity ends.