CULTURAL
Visit to the town of San Juan Bautista
Coordinates: 33º 38 `20``latitude south & 78º 49`54``longitude west
Height: 10 m
Distance: 2, 5 km.
Description of the tour:
Going out of the Lodge by surface or sea you can get to the village of San Juan Bautista,
with about 600 people it has several key points of historical and natural, cultural
interest as: The sectors that in February, 2010 were affected by the Tsunami, the new
square implemented by the municipality, the cemetery, the caves of the patriots, the
sector impacts of bullet of the battle of the Dresden and Santa Barbara’s fort,
national monument that dates back from the 18th century. We will also visit goldsmiths of
black coral and craftsmen who work the leather of fish.
Duration: 3, 5 hours
Difficulty: Low
Capacity: 2 to 8 passengers
Recommendations:
Warm clothes, jacket for wind and rain, camera, do not throw papers or garbage, do not
scrawl down the historical icons, and maintain a respectful and harmonic profile to the
local community.
TREKKING
Yunque’s small square
Coordinates: 33º 38´58” latitude south & 78º 50´ 32,6” longitude west
Height: 261 m
Distance: 2, 6 km
Description of the tour:
This path takes us to the start of the highest summit of the island “El Yunque”
with a height of 915 m. It is inserted in Pangue's native forest, Cinnamon-trees and
Naranjillos, is a light trekking but full of surprises and beautiful sight. In this square
in addition they find the remains of the house where there lived the German sailor Hugo
Weber that after the collapse of the Dresden came back to the island and lived in it for
more than 12 years.
Duration: 3, 5 hours
Difficulty: Low
Capacity: 2 to 10 passengers
Recommendations:
Take a good shoe for the mud, jacket for wind and rain, camera, do not throw garbage, do
not take anything of what you found on the way, stay at all times in the limited path.
“Sal Si Puedes” View-point
Coordinates: 33º 37 `55``latitude south & 78º50`18``longitude west
Height: 142 m
Distance: 2, 3 km
Description of the tour:
Trekking mainly uphill for a clearly delimited path, but that with rain can be very
slippery, predominated by an exotic flora. The story is that in one of the sections of
this path they were sending the convicts of the foreign crafts at a very pronounced gully,
where some of them were managing to get out and others not, that gives the name of this
viewing-point “Get out if you can” in English, which has an infinite sight to
the Pacific Ocean, by Cumberland's bay for the north - west and the sector of “Puerto
Inglés” to the south-west.
Duration: 3 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 2 to 8 passengers
Recommendations:
Take a good shoe for the mud, canes of trekking, camera, a bottle of water, jacket for
wind and rain, do not throw garbage, be careful with the gullies and maintain a reasonable
distance from the crags it might be strong winds gusts.
Centinela View-point
Coordinates: 33º 38` 36`` Latitude south & 78º 48` 27`` Longitude west
Height: 340 m
Distance: 1, 5 km
Description of the tour:
Path that begins from the lodge towards the North-East of the island, coming to a
viewing-point where there are a few antennas and we will find the formerly only telegraph
in town with a beautiful sight of the gully of the “pesca de los viejos”.
Walking away from the viewing point begins a closed native forest.Duration: 2, 5 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 2 to 10 passengers
Recommendations:
Take a good shoe for the mud, canes of trekking, camera, a bottle of water, jacket for
wind and rain, do not throw garbage, be careful with the gullies and maintain a reasonable
distance from the crags it might be strong winds gusts.
Trekking of Selkirk’s view point
Coordinates: 33º38’1, 5’’ latitude south & 78º51’05,
3’’longitude west
Height: 580 m
Distance: 4 km
Description of the tour:
This viewing-point was used by Alejandro Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who auto-exiled
himself in the island and remained in it for more than 4 years, his interesting story was
an inspiration of Daniel Defoe's known novel 'Robinson Crusoe's incredible
adventures’. The path of native flora takes you to a strategic point where it is
possible to have a panoramic sight of both sides of the island. On the way we also meet
two important icons “piedras pintadas” and the stone cabin where this seaworthy
was sheltering. From the viewing-point a small downhill through the native forest we will
encounter chontas, pangue and cinnamon-tree.
Duration: 4, 5 hours
Difficulty: Medium to high
Capacity: 2 to 8 passengers
Recommendations:
Trekking clothes, canes and shoes, a bottle of water, camera, do not throw garbage, be
careful of gullies, maintain a reasonable distance to the crags, strong winds gusts,
slippery when is rainy, watch your step when walking through the path and follow the
instructions of the guide.
“Puerto Francés” & “Rebaje de la Piña”
Puerto Francés ( French Port): Facing
southeast
Coordinates: 33º 39`45``latitude south & 78º 46` 35``longitude south
Height: 10 m
Distance: 4, 2 km
Rebaje de la Piña: Facing southwest
Coordinates: 33º 40 ´09” latitude south & 78º 48 ´08” longitude south
Height: 383 m
Distance: 3, 1 km
Description of the tour:
Leaving by one of our crafts from the lodge or from a fishermen
crafts depending on the participants' quantity. Loading from the wharf of the lodge begins
the navigation towards the French port bordering the “Quebrada piedra
agujereada”, “La Labra” and “La Pesca de los Viejos”. At the
arrival, from the bay we start walking entering the gully of the Frenchman going through
the sector of “La Casa Vieja” (Old House) and “Plan de la Sopaipilla”,
then we enter an endemic forest surrounded with Lumas, Naranjillos, Chontas,
Cinnamon-trees and varieties of Ferns.
About the midday comes near to “Rebaje de la Piña” to
a height of 320 m. with a panoramic sight of the whole south hillside of the island
including the small island “El Verdugo”, “Chamelos”,
“Vinilla” and Santa Clara’s island.
We come back to the French Port where we have lunch outdoors with
typical fishes of the zone.
Duration: 7 hours (Entire Day)
Difficulty: Low
Capacity: 2 to 10 passengers
Recommendations:
Always use lifeguard while in the boats, take extra clothes for change and sandals for the
disembarkation, trekking clothes and canes, rain poncho, camera, do not break, burn or cut
anything from the native flora.
“Cruce de Isla” Trekking
Coordinates: 33º 39`48´´ latitude south & 78º 55´31’’longitude west
Height: 100 m
Distance: 10, 5 km
Description of the tour:
This trekking starts from the island’s airfield up to the town of San Juan Bautista,
the first section is characterized to have a low difficulty with a relatively flat way in
for the south hillside of the island with beautiful sights of small islands. Then from
Villagra's sector begins the ascent to Selkirk’s view-point crossing a few native
forest ending in a beautiful sight of both sides of the island.
Duration: 6 hours
Difficulty: Medium to high
Capacity: 2 to 10 passengers
Recommendations:
Trekking clothes, canes and shoes, a bottle of water, camera, do not throw garbage, be
careful of gullies, maintain a reasonable distance to the crags, strong winds gusts,
slippery when is rainy, watch your step when walking through the path and follow the
instructions of the guide.
FISHING
You can choose from different places to fish, the group that
goes together must not exceed more than 4 people.
Discover the catch of the lobster
Accompany us in a tour on board of our craft to discovering how they handcrafted hunt for
Juan's Fernandez lobster (Jasus frontalis). Enjoy a typical island lunch with a “pot
of lobster” and vidriola accompanied by a few glasses of Chilean wine.
Duration: 3 hours
Difficulty: None
Capacity: 1 to 6 passengers
“Trolling Fishing” through Juan Fernandez’s cost
Activity goes fishing of dragging: with 2 daily exits bulging hours 7.00-9.00 19.00-21.00
through Robinson Crusoe’s island, to capture vidriolas, Juan's Fernandez horse
mackerel saws and bass between others.
SCUBA DIVING
Submarine Baptism
You’ll be underwater for a couple of hours.
Our instructor of skin-diving Padi will give you an orientation on physics and physiology
of the scuba diving, as well as the instruction on how to use the equipment of autonomous
scuba diving and to get used to this new submarine environment. Then, down the supervision
of the instructor, support scuba diver and captain of the craft, we will go in a real
scuba diving experience to a maximum depth of 15 m. where you will have a more nearby
vision of the submarine world of Juan's Fernandez archipelago.
Duration: 4 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to “Punta Lobería”
Leaving at 9:00 am towards “Punta Lobería”.
Dip in just above a couple of anchors of the nose Englishman Speedwell, run aground in
1720. We should be able to see pampanitos (Scorpis Chilensis), horse mackerels (Caranx
geogianus), Jerguillas (Girella albostriata) and lábridos (Malapterus reticulatus). Depth
28mts. Surface interval of 45mts.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to “Puerto Inglés” (English Port)
Dip in the below “Puerto Inglés”, in the gully of “Sal si puedes
“(depth of 28mts). Diverse marine flora and fauna. Dive around a great rock
fractured in two. Brown eels, crustaceans, tree of sea or black coral (Parantypathes
fernandezii). We will go back to the surface on an interval of 60mts in land since we will
do disembarkation in “Puerto Inglés” where Selkirk's cave is located, where the
North American investigator, Bernard Keiser is doing scientific excavations to dig a
valuable exchequer up Englishman stolen from the Spanish in times of the pirates.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to “Punta San Carlos”
Dip in below “Puerto San Carlos”. Dive through volcanic tongue that begins in
the 25mts and slowly ends at the 3 mt mark. Colonies of anemones, black hedgehog and
vidriolas (Serióla lalandii), then return to the wharf.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to “Bajo del Encierro”
Dip in “Bajo del Encierro” with a depth of 15mts, where we will find big amount
of tendrils, soles, cabrillas and vidriolas.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to the Goblin’s cave
Boat ride for about an hour to get to the dip in the spectacular Cave of the Goblin in
Three Tops in the southern part west of Cumberland’s bay. Deep diving in one of the
Robinson Crusoe's best sectors. Crustaceans, vidriolas, daces, calanthias platei,
serránidos, horse mackerels, escorporas, big brown breads. Surface interval of 50 min.
everything close to a colony of wolves die of two hairs, mammalian only one endemic sailor
of the archipelago.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Scuba diving to “Bajo la Tortuga”
Dip in below “Bajo la Tortuga”. A wonderful place, with a depth of 15mts, where
we will enjoy the only spectacle big rocky formations, caves, and a diversity of flora and
fauna marinades (black coral, tendrils, soles, cabrillas and vidriolas).
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
SNORKELING
Snorkelling through the colony of wolves die of two hairs
50 minutes boat ride towards “Bahia Tres Puntas” in Robinson Crusoe's southwest
zone. Here is located an important colony of thin wolf of two hair (Arctocephalus
philippii). We should have the opportunity to snorkelling in the middle of a herd of more
than 100 curious wolves of sea, mammalian endemic only one of the Archipelago. Enjoy a
roast on board of the craft.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
Capacity: 1 to 4 passengers
Snorkelling in Pangal Bay
In your free time, you will be able to enjoy the snorkelling in Pangal Bay from our
private beach, where you will be able to see wolves, pampanitos, jurelillos, hedgehogs, a
great quantity of anemones of different colors, and vidriolas.
Duration: Variable
Difficulty: Medium
