-UMAN LODGE- WHERE THE PATAGONIA LEGEND BEGINS

Uman Lodge at Futaleufú – North Chilean Patagonia

Resting, experiences and adventures combined with a luxurious accommodation, gourmet kitchen, marvelous nature environment and outdoor activities.

This exclusive lodge is complimented by a 500 hectare piece of land, known as “La Confluencia” farm. The hotel was built on top of a rock offering incredible interior and exterior space where you can cherish the valley guiding to the Futaleufu and Espolón rivers. The modern and warm architecture facilitates the integration of the scenery with help of the hotel’s large windows.

Uman Lodge was transformed into a friendly refuge with its spacios decoration of indigenous wood and local designs which creates the lodge’s charm. It is a perfect combination of relaxing and adrenaline sensations where you can enjoy and contemplate the delightful silence of the Patagonia region.

You can equally decide to take part in the innumerable activities while breathing the fresh air in the offered by the environment of this unique region of Chile.

“La Confluencia” farm,  is one of the most beautiful farms in the region. Purchased to the well known ecologist Douglas Tompkins in 2007, it has become the first farm in Patagonia with a luxurious hotel within its limits. The farm has 5 kilometers (3,12 miles) of river plus  the confluences of Espolón River and Futaleufú River. 100 hectares have been dedicated to the agricultural in a careful scale and the other 400 hectares are destined to protect and conserve the native forest. Also sand beaches at the rivers border are part of this magnificent environment along with two lagoons .

ACTIVITIES

-Kayaking
-Rafting
-Floats
-Fly Fishing
-Trekking, Mountain Trekking
-Bike, Mountain Bike
-Horseback Riding
-Birds & Deers Observation

MICE

In a majestic environment of the Andean Patagonia, Uman Lodge offers companies the opportunity to try out professional activities required to enjoy leisure time, doing corporate business meeting more enjoyable and productive. Uman Lodge offers all services needed for successful corporate events.

Our broadband connection will allow, if necessary stay connected. With its suites and spacious, Uman Lodge offers excellent infrastructure accompanied an exclusive and personalized service. Coordinated and tailor-made, those events can be made at any time of year, always subject to availability and with a commitment to ensure that all our guests and visitors are always comfortable. With various power options and a proposal for custom programs, Uman Lodge offers a unique alternative for meetings and mid events in Patagonia.

 

EXPLORE WELSH PATAGONIA

Our team was exploring the welsh patagonia in Gaiman and Trevelin, preparing for next season when welsh people visit the only place in the world where their language is spoken outside of Wales.

Our special host was the well-known Margarita Green.

 

 

Huacachina among most breathtaking villages in the globe

Magnificent oasis town of Huacachina, in southern Peru’s Ica region, has been included in a recent The Telegraph publication listing 21 of the world’s most dramatic villages.

“Known among tourists as a sandboarding destination, this oasis is worth a visit for its location alone, hidden amid golden dunes in the desert outside Ica,” reads the photo caption.

Besides Huacachina, the photo gallery includes other 20 impressive villages around the world.

According to The Telegraph, Huacachina is almost entirely a resort town now, and a number of hotel swimming pools can be spotted from the top of the dunes.

“Tearing up and down said dunes in a buggy is also another popular tourist pastime,” notes the piece of writing.

Tourist activities

Extreme sports are the popular activities in the place. Most visitors are drawn by sandboarding, which involves riding across or down a dune while standing with both feet strapped to a board.

Merging Nature with Meetings Torres del Paine, Patagonia

All Inclusive programs are designed to meet a diverse selection of activities and interests in Patagonia for incentive groups coming to Chile. This allows you to maximize the value of your time with us, whilst you enjoy in depth every corner and surrounding area of Torres del Paine National Park.

Then, you will be able to enjoy following services while in Río Serrano:

In/Out Transfers from Punta Arenas / Puerto Natales / El Calafate to Río Serrano Hotel

  • Welcome drink
  • All meals (Buffet Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)
  • Entry fees to Torres del Paine National Park
  • Bilingual staff guided excursions (according to established list)
  • Open Bar (except Premium Liqueurs)
  • WIFI in rooms and common areas
  • Access to SPA with heated pool (starting on January 2018)

Excursions menu:

 Full Day
Torres del Paine
Trekking Las Torres Basement
Trekking Chacabuco

Half day
Trekking Ferrier Viewpoint Mount
Trekking Pingo Valley
Trekking Salto Serrano
Trekking Hidden Lagoon
Trekking Condor Viewpoint
Trekking Cuernos Viewpoint
Trekking Aonikenk
Trekking Sarmiento Lagoon
Nutria Horseback riding 1 or 2 hours
Trekking Grey Beach (New)

MICE

With the largest conference center in Torres del Paine, Río Serrano has a capacity for 200 people in 240 m2, technically equipped for incentive travel companies with assorted needs. A large living room is fully equipped with curtain, data show, slide projector, podium, wireless mic, lectern and amplification. Also has the option of split into 4 rooms of 60 ms each.

Our team recommends… Puerto Madryn

Melina Russo and Mariel Pagella from our leisure department tell us about their experience in Puerto Madryn, home of right whales, penguin colonies and traditional Welsh settlements.

The whale season is one of the main attractions that have made this city famous worldwide. From July to December, various populations of southern right whales reach these shores.

Visitors may watch them both on board the boats leaving from Puerto Pirámides and from some natural viewpoints and almost all the beaches bordering the city. When you are in the area, you fell their presence everywhere. It´s magical.

Another must-see is Estancia San Lorenzo, a sheep farm with an amazing breeding colony of Magellanic penguins. The ranch is part of the Protected Natural Area Peninsula Valdes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, and offers a long trail to be able to walk with close proximity to the penguins. It´s incredible to walk so close to them, almost felling like a guest in one of their homes for the season.

Finally, we depart early in the morning towards Rawson, Chubut’s capital city, to enjoy more wildlife. This time is the turn of the Commerson’s dolphins from the port. We sail through river and then open sea until we got the chance to meet this lively and joyful friends. After the navigation we continue the tour to Trelew to visit the Museum for Palaeontology Egidio Feruglio (MEF).  This is one of Latin America’s most important museums in the field where you can stroll through the different geological eras, from the first humans back to the Big Bang.

Then, we continue our trip to Gaiman, a small town which keeps the Welsh heritage at its best! Its architecture, tea rooms and tasty Welsh fruit cake are some of the treasures offered to its visitors.

Do not miss the opportunity to travel back in time and understand the way of leaving, culture and how this people work hard to honor their roots through time.

‘Aussie Boom’: Australian tourism landing in Argentina

Buenos Aires,  September 5, 2017. The National Ministry of Tourism, through the National Institute of Tourism Promotion (INPROTUR), and the Argentine Chamber of Tourism participated together with the support of the Argentinian Embassy in the Australian ATALA Travel Week hosted in Melbourne and Sydney, last August. This comes at exactly the right time, since a new official bulletin declared the retreat of the reciprocity fee for Australian citizens starting (past) July 1st.

ATALA is an Australian association dedicated to the promotion of tourism destinations in Latin America. Its mission is to stimulate the growth of trips to the region, establish and develop relations among members, improve the knowledge about destination in the market and to advise and provide the Latinamerican representatives all the information about the requirements of the Australian market.

This Association offers an annual event called Latin America Travel Week with the objective of bringing the region’s tourism offer to the Australian market, both to travel agents and to final consumers.  This event became a vital opportunity to introduce Argentina and its products in the oceanic market. Travel agents, tour operators, the press and the general public received detailed information about our tourism offer.

Attendees were mostly prospect travelers with Latin America as destination for end of this year or during 2018. In some cases, those with air tickets already purchased.

Patagonia, Iguazu Waterfalls and Buenos Aires were the most requested destinations. People were interested in coming face to face with heritage sites inscribed in UNESCO, our history and culture, and in particular the music of the Tango.