Cambios

An attractive more wild tour offering a perfect alternative to the other far more popular areas of the park. it is also good conditioning before taking on the circuit or other longer treks in the park.

== Season ==

October to April

== The Route ==

A sign post from the car park to campmento Pingo directs you down the well marked trail with regular orange sign posts. The route to Pingo is an easy 3km in a sheltered valley. At Pingo there is a camp ground, an abandoned refugio and good views of Cerro Paine Grande. Keep following the trail as it follows the river before ascending into beech forest. There is a very short side to trip to the right of the path before a bridge to Cascada salto (waterfall waterfall!?) which is well worth exploring. After this the trail climbs roughly 200m into thick attractive forest which gets a little dull after a while. The trail continues bumpily along before descending to reach the turn off for Pingo falls 7km from campamento Pingo. Here you can take another worthwhile 1km diversion to the noisy Pingo falls where the river thunders down over the rocks. Once back on the trail it's a fairly flat further 2.5km to campamento Zapata on a picturesque bend in the river (the Refugio was burnt down a few years ago no matter what your map and the one in the administration! says).