Torres del Paine Full-Day Tour from Puerto Natales to El Calafate

Location: Puerto Natales, Chile — Torres del Paine National Park — El Calafate, Argentina

Discover the wild western side of Torres del Paine and its great glacier viewpoints on this full-day tour connecting Puerto Natales, Chile with El Calafate, Argentina. With a private guide throughout, the day is built around the park's biggest ice, its widest panoramas, and a scenic drive back across the border by evening.

The day begins with a drive to the shore of Lago Grey, where a black-sand beach opens onto one of the park's great sights: icebergs calved from Glaciar Grey drift across the water, with the edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field visible in the distance. Travelers who add the optional catamaran navigation sail right up to the glacier's six-kilometer-wide face, weaving between floating ice for a close-up look at Glaciar Grey.

From Lago Grey, the route heads toward Puente Weber, near the Park Administration Center, where an easy, wildflower-lined path leads to a viewpoint over Lago del Toro and the glaciers of the Paine massif. The tour continues along the turquoise shore of Lago Pehoé through native lenga forest to Mirador Pehoé, a wide-open panorama that captures the full extent of the lake beneath the Cordillera del Paine.

The afternoon continues to Mirador Los Cóndores, above Lago Pehoé, for one of the park's widest views — the Cuernos and Paine massif to the north, the ice field on the horizon, and Andean condors often riding the thermals overhead — before a final stop at Mirador Nordenskjöld, overlooking the wind-swept turquoise waters of the lake beneath the Horns of Paine.

Combining the park's greatest glacier with a string of its widest panoramas, this full-day tour is the most complete way to see the western side of Torres del Paine, closing with the afternoon drive back across the border to El Calafate — expertly guided every step, and every stop, of the way.