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The 5-night Chonos Route sails every Saturday at 12 noon from Puerto Montt. This route gives you the opportunity to visit wonderful towns and villages. Puerto Montt, the route starting point, is well-known for its handcrafts and German traditions. There's also Castro, a land of mythology, legends, and crafts; Puerto Aguirre and Queilen, villages of fishermen and shellfish gatherers. In each of these places, you will be in close contact with inhabitants, see their typical houses and customs, feel the hospitality of the people, and gain access to the different city services.
You will also encounter the majestic Glaciar San Rafael, and experience the beauty of Fiordo Quitralco, an ancient glacier bed surrounded by mountains with a unique and exuberant vegetation.
These latitudes offer a flora and fauna of spectacular beauty. The heavy rainfall that prevails creates the austral rainforest, rich in an enormous variety of trees, plants, and flowers that impress visitors.
Patagonian fauna is varied as well. The sea wolves, albacore, dolphins, whales, sea leopards, Magellanic Flightless Steamer Ducks, cormorants, Chucao Tapaculos, seagulls, swans, and ringed kingfishers all continually delight Skorpios passengers.
Temperatures on this route range between 8 and 18 degrees C from spring to autumn, and 12 and 20 degrees C during the summer.
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