Top Puerto Varas Hiking Tours

Explore Alerce Andino National Park (Parque Nacional Alerce Andino), located in the Andes, on this all-day guided tour from Puerto Varas. Learn about the forest’s biodiversity and ecology, including the giant alerce trees that can grow up to 147 feet (45 meters) tall and 13 feet (4 meters) wide and are comparable to sequoia trees.

Take a walk with us through the Alerce Andino National Park! This amazing National Park is located near Puerto Montt, and at the beginning of the Carretera Austral. You can do a trekking according to your physical condition reaching the Alerce Milenario, or a maximum walk of up to 5 hours round trip, to Lake Chaiquenes. You can enjoy all that Nature has to offer in this fun trekking.

Just a day activity that gives you one of the best views of the Llanquihue Lake basin from above. And to get a closer look at the glacier of the Osorno volcano. If you are used to hiking in mountainous terrain, the ascent will be easy and probably fast, so the surroundings and what you can see from there will be your main gain. If this is your first time trekking on a volcano, or you are simply not used to this type of activity, you will enjoy an unforgettable challenge and be rewarded with memories that can only be captured from the top of a mountain.

Discover the Osorno Volcano, a conical stratovolcano in Los Lagos Region of Chile. Travel along the Llanquihue Lake towards Vicente Pérez Rosales Park. Hike through coigües forests as you ascend, observing the forest’s flora and fauna. Observe the traces of lava passage in La Burbuja crater. Appreciate the varied landscapes and views on the way to its summit.

Explore Chile’s Cochamo Valley on this day hike with a Wilderness First Responder-certified guide. You’ll follow trails once used to smuggle cattle between Chile and Argentina. The trails are mostly flat with some hills and muddy, slippery sections. Bring warm clothing, trekking poles, rain jacket, and sun protection. Hotel pickup is included for added convenience.

Hike in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park on this full-day tour from Puerto Varas. Explore the protected area known for Petrohué Falls and enjoy the striking scenery of Chile’s Lake District. Hotel pickup in an air-conditioned vehicle is included.

Casually earth day with a sunny autumn evening when the volcano begun to erupt shaping an amazing landscape on the sky. Along with its neighbor Osorno, is one of Chile's most active volcanoes. It is located 11 km south of Lake Llanquihue and 30 km NE of the town of Puerto Mont in the Lake District in southern Chile. Calbuco volcano consists mainly of blocky lava flows and tephra layers, and its summit is truncated by a 400-500 m wide summit crater. Debris avalanches from Calbuco have reached Lake Llanquihue. One of the largest historical eruptions in southern Chile took place from Calbuco in 1893-1894. It ended with the formation of a lava dome in the summit crater. Later eruptions have enlarged the lava-dome complex. This volcano erupted last 22nd April 2015. Calbuco Volcano is the third most active Volcano in the Region after Villarica and Llaima with 2003 meters above sea level.

This volcano is part of the beginning of the southern fjords, we will have to cross an ancient forest, go up a volcanic stone haul, climb an entertaining rock wall to end up climbing an easy and aesthetic rock fang and crown an unforgettable summit, from where We will be able to appreciate the new crater that was formed after the 2015 eruption. You do not need previous experience, you just need the desire to live a real adventure and physical condition according to the demands of climbing to the top of a mountain. It is a personalized activity in which the Guide will be in charge of a maximum of three passengers The ascent to this volcano can be done all year round. Required Implementation High-top mountain or trekking shoes Headlamp Sportswear and outerwear Backpack (30 Lt minimum) UV protected lenses Sunscreen Water bottle (2 liters) Trekking sticks If you don't have any of the items, let us know so we can get them for you.