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Day 1 Valparaíso, Chile
Valparaíso has inspired more Chilean poets, novelists, and painters than any other city in the country. Pablo Neruda had a house here, and the city's steep hills of coloured houses, street art, and funicular railways create an aesthetic entirely its own. Founded in 1536 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the port city combines 19th-century mercantile grandeur with a bohemian energy that remains genuinely uncurated.
Day 2 At Sea
Day 3 Puerto Montt
Puerto Montt marks the end of Chile's central lake district and the start of Patagonia, its waterfront backed by the snow-capped cone of Calbuco volcano. The covered Mercado Artesanal and the wooden churches of Chiloé Island — a short ferry ride away — introduce the crafts and architecture of this seafaring culture, while the Carretera Austral begins here, heading south into wilderness.
Day 4 Puerto Cisnes
Puerto Cisnes sits on the Puyuhuapi fjord in Chile's Aysén region, directly across from the national park surrounding the dormant volcano Mont Melimoyu, whose ice-capped caldera dominates the skyline. The protected park ecosystem shelters penguins, cormorants, sea lions, and southern river otters, and the black-necked swans from which the town takes its name.
Day 5 Cruise Chilean Fjords
Winding through the vast expanses of the Chilean Fjords reveals mountains looming on both sides, waterfalls, and hardy flora clinging to barren rocks. Seals and dolphins patrol these uninhabited fjords while small fishing boats from Punta Arenas work the waters for king crab, and terns dip and glide among tiny islands thick with vegetation. The fjords have been shaped by millions of years of natural forces and remain among the most remote and undisturbed coastal landscapes on the planet.
Day 6 Tortel, Chile
Tortel, in Chilean Patagonia, is known as the footbridge city — a small commune accessible only by boat or air. Its residents navigate between piers and houses via 4.5 miles of cypress-wood walkways rather than roads. The surrounding wilderness of mountains, glaciers, and channels is among Patagonia's most undisturbed, and the town's unique character reflects a way of life shaped entirely by water.
Day 7 Cruise English Narrows
English Narrows is a passage at the southern end of the Messier Channel in Chile's Region XI, at times just 180 metres wide and 18 kilometres in length, surrounded by Wellington Island to the west and Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, Chile's largest. Strong currents require the passage to be made at slack tide, and pilots are required by Chilean law for all vessels. A few kilometres south lies Puerto Eden, the only settlement along the entire Chilean Inside Passage.
Day 7 Cruising Pio XI Glacier
Pio XI Glacier is found at the terminus of the 23-nautical-mile Eyre Fjord within Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. It is South America's longest glacier and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica, with a front width of 4.5 kilometers and a height of approximately 80 meters. Chilean and Peale's dolphins have been recorded alongside South American sea lions on the rocky shore.
Day 8 Cruise Chilean Fjords
Day 9 Aguila Glacier, Chile
Spilling through the moody peaks of Parque Nacional Alberto de Agostini in southern Patagonia, the Aguila Glacier descends toward the Agostini Fjord in a vast wall of turquoise ice. Snowcapped summits, blackened mountains, and dark Magellanic forests frame a landscape of end-of-the-world drama. Zodiacs and kayaks allow visitors to move among drifting ice and witness the glacier calving as the forests bloom in summer sunshine.
Day 10 Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas is the world's southernmost city of significant size — a wind-swept port at the Strait of Magellan. Its heritage was shaped by polar explorers, Patagonian sheep ranches, and the ships that once made this the crossing between oceans. Captain Scott reprovisioned here; Shackleton's crew were rescued nearby. The Nao Victoria Museum preserves the history of Magellan's circumnavigation.
Day 11 Ushuaia
Ushuaia, on the Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina, announces itself as the End of the World — a title it shares with Chilean Puerto Williams across the water. The Martial Mountains frame a town of coloured houses that serves as the gateway to Tierra del Fuego National Park and the departure point for expeditions across the Drake Passage to Antarctica.
Days 12-13 Drake Passage
Drake Passage connects the southern tip of the Americas to Antarctica, dropping off from Cape Horn into icy waters below. Converging warm and cool ocean currents attract spectacular wildlife including soaring albatrosses and pods of humpback and hourglass dolphins. The South Shetland Islands, including Elephant and Deception Island, are typically among the first Antarctic landmasses encountered.
Day 14 Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound is a compelling stop where few voyages ignite the imagination like a journey down to one of the planet’s most remote, extreme, and enchanting wilderness, Antarctica. An adventure in its purest form, only a handful of people will ever be lucky enough to experience the majestic beauty of these monochrome landscapes first-hand. Watch on, as colonies of Gentoo penguins hop around, and cape petrels sweep overhead, as the continent’s unique wildlife thrives around you, with luxury Antarctic cruise, extraordinary birdlife, and ice shelf adding further depth to the experience, giving.
Days 15-17 Antarctica Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula unravels upwards towards South America, reaching out a beckoning finger to the adventurous, who dare to explore this untamed realm. Witness cathedral-sized icebergs up close, and blue-hued glaciers, slowly slipping from imposing locations like Hope Bay. Stretching up from the heart of the world’s southernmost continent, the Antarctic Peninsula lies a mere 620 miles from Tierra del Fuego and, for many, with luxury Antarctic, unique landscapes, and wildlife adding further depth to the experience, giving the call a strong sense of place.
Day 18 South Shetland
At the threshold of Antarctica, the South Shetland Islands offer an unforgettable first encounter with the White Continent’s stark beauty. Snow-clad peaks, black volcanic beaches, tidewater glaciers, and wildlife-rich shores create a landscape that is at once severe and unexpectedly animated by penguins, seals, and seabirds. For many travelers, this is where Antarctica becomes real: close enough to observe, wild enough to remain almost dreamlike; a place that feels both cinematic and intimate, which is an annoyingly rare combination in modern travel.
Day 19-20 At Sea
Day 21 Puerto William Disembarkation & Fly to Santiago
Puerto Williams on Navarino Island claims the title of southernmost city in the world, its dramatic backdrop of the jagged Dientes de Navarino peaks rivalling Torres del Paine for Patagonian grandeur.
