What is the advantage of staying in Puerto Piramides?
Specifically, you would save at least 124 mi (200 km) of your life, every day. The distances in Peninsula Valdes are endless. Choosing to stay in Puerto Piramides will save you a lot of time, money and life. You decide the hotel, hostel, guest house according to your budget. But this is my advice. OfRead More
Photographers in season of Whales and Orcas
Whale Watching season creates intense seasonal activity y Puerto Piramides and Peninsula Valdes. Waiting during the offseason for the whales to arrive and the possibility of navigating Golfo Nuevo in their presence wakes the adventurous appetite in all of us. Either by large Catamaran, small boat, or in the new innovative semi-submersible Yellow Submarine, providing underwaterRead More
Dusky dolphin in Peninsula Valdes
Also known as FitzRoy Dolphin, the dusky dolphin gives splashes of magic and mischief in the calm waters of the gulf. Feel the energy of man’s best friend in the sea. It’s a marine mammal from the cetacean group, Odontoceti subgroup (such as orcas). It has a short, dark beak, and the dorsal fin isRead More
How many days are recommended for maximum use of the destination?
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How big is Puerto Piramides? What services does it offer?
Puerto Piramides has little more than 500 permanent inhabitants, and is so big that ... in half an hour we can walk around the town walking !!! It means that on foot we can mobilize without needing a vehicle. This little town, is within the Peninsula Valdes the only place where you can provide theRead More
How many days are recommended for maximum use of the destination?
21% VAT RETURN on accommodation… know more Del Nomade Eco-Friendly Hotel 2 nights %10% off Rate does not include 21% VAT for foreigners Access our Direct Booking promotions. We will gladly answer your question +54-9-280-463-5649 e-mail: info@ecohosteria.com.ar * To be exempt from this 21% VAT… Per national law, a 21% room tax must be paid byRead More
Daily excursions to the colony of sea lions
Daily Kayak trips vary according to the time of year. It is the whale season kayak excursions between autumn and spring, to which we dedicate another article and the summer excursions that consist of accommodating in the kayaks on the beach of Puerto Pirámides and paddling towards the Punta Piramide reserve, a reproductive colony ofRead More
What is the best time to see whales in Puerto Piramides?
In September, October, and November, Puerto Piramides becomes the fundamental base for whale watching. Whales, depending on whether they are mothers with offspring, males or females without breeding, have different behaviors. The females that calved, they are observed with the calf, much more skinny than when they arrived and the bigger and daring pups, they beginRead More
Where is Puerto Piramides?
Puerto Piramides is the only town within the Peninsula Valdes Reserve and is the only whale watching port. It has hotels, houses for rent, apartments, hostels, and guest houses, to stay and restaurants and bars to eat and drink. Adventure sports are daily in the village. Trekking, kayaking, mountain bike, diving, diving with sea lionsRead More
What activities can I do from Puerto Piramides?
The activities that are carried out are all linked to nature, and mainly to water: trekking, diving, snorkeling, kayaking, whale watching, boat trips, photography and activity that few know how to value: relaxation and abstraction of the material world.Read More
What can I visit from Puerto Piramides?
Puerto Piramides is the ideal place to use as a starting point towards the natural places that Peninsula Valdes offers, from here everything is closer. The first destinations when you enter Peninsula Valdes, are the visitor center Istmo Ameguino, and the Birds Island. A modern museum that provides the necessary information to have fun learningRead More
Mountain Bike in Peninsula Valdes
Mountain bike riding is an adventure sport practiced just about everywhere with Patagonia being no exception. In Puerto Piramides, long time resident Mario Gadda offers daily tours and other special excursions. The name of his business Traccion a Sangre and his tours will take you along paths, trails and old ranch roads are known only to him and veryRead More
Where to sleep in Puerto Piramides?
* To be exempt from this 21% VAT... Per national law, a 21% room tax must be paid by Argentinean citizens. To be exempt from this 21% VAT (IVA), a non-Argentinean guest, must present a valid, original passport sealed at the port of entry and must pay with a foreign credit card. Any questions contactRead More
Among the 10 best places in the world to see whales
According to National Geographic, one of the best places in the world for whale watching is Peninsula Valdes. It is good to be told by someone from the outside because it maintains objectivity that we who live here have already lost. Precisely because every day we are surprised by the number of whales we seeRead More
Isthmus Ameguino Museum of Peninsula Valdes
A desolate road occupied by wild animals, unique to the landscape of these latitudes, serves as an introduction to the Valdes Peninsula. 4.3 mi ( 7km ) after passing the control booths and entrance to the Peninsula, a large round-about offers access to the Visitors Center. Here a small and well-maintained museum exhibits a general viewRead More
Puerto Piramides, a town with history
More than 100 years ago the number of people living in Puerto Piramides was much larger than its current population. In a few sentences, I will try to make a simple recapitulation of this century of history. During the early 1.900s, salt mining and extraction brought a large labor force to the peninsula, an activity
Read MoreHotels in Puerto Madryn and Puerto Piramides
The offer of hotels in the city of Puerto Madryn and our town Puerto Piramides is varied. Peninsula Valdes, has these two localities as indispensable for the tourist offer. The first, a town of 85,000 inhabitants, located outside the Protected Area. The second, a small tourist village of 500 inhabitants, within the World Natural Heritage
Read MoreFalse Killer Whale in Puerto Piramides Bay
In May 2008 the Chilean Volcano Chaiten erupted, throwing a plume of gas and ash 15.5 mi ( 25km ) into the atmosphere. The predominant west winds dispersed and carried the ash east across Argentine Patagonia and eventually, as far east as the African Continent. The coast of Chubut, and more precisely the Bay of PuertoRead More
Coastal Wildlife Network of Chubut – Rescue Fauna
Wildlife and Wildlife Organization If you find a marine animal on the coast and you think it needs help: Do not get close, do not wet it, do not try to move it or push it towards the sea. Notice, we know how to act! Facebook: @RedFaunaCostera Email: rfcchubut@gmail.com Recommendations in case you find a marine
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