NEXT DATE: 25 to 28 January 2025
RIDE: Plane of the Uruguayans
Price per person: U$D 1300
Join us on a memorable 4-day adventure!
We’ll visit the secluded “Hidden Lagoon,” a truly breathtaking spot, and have horses at your disposal for the entire experience.
To wrap up our journey, we’ll enjoy a fireside gathering on the final night, complete with group storytelling and camaraderie.
Included Services
Service coordinator and obtaining the permit to enter the Valley of Tears.
*We are in charge of coordinating all the services and assisting you in your itinerary from Mendoza with any information that the participant needs.
* Permit to enter the Valley of Tears:
* We include the permit and process it.
* Price included in the price per participant
* Traveler or personal accident insurance:
* Personal accident insurance is included, however we request that you bring this insurance from your origin.
Transport of Loads with Mules:
* Transport of personal equipment with pack mules / 15 kg per person
El Barrozo Camp:
* Exclusive dining room for the group
* All meals, full board.
* Meals are prepared at the camp and served in the exclusive dining room.
* They can have hot water, bathroom, etc.
* Food for the ride
Trekking or Mountain Guide:
* One (1) expert guide in the area and obviously in horses, who is in charge of leading the days of the ride, advising us and taking care of us.
* We always have a trekking or mountain guide due to his professional training
* We also have a complete team of expert and pleasant muleteers, depending on the number of animals used.
Horses:
*We include tame horses with saddles for the ride
*Horses for the 4 days of the ride and established circuit
*We include saddlebags to carry belongings for immediate use on the daily ride (example: food, jacket, drink, gloves, etc.)
*We advise against the use of backpacks because they make walking uncomfortable or, failing that, they should not be too heavy and have a belt.
Tents for sleeping:
* Double tents for the base camps, which must be shared with another person (two places)
Safety material:
* All common materials for the safety of the group (example: ropes, first aid kit, handy, etc.)
* Satellite communication for emergencies.
Services NOT Included
Transportation: (This service is not included in the budget but can be quoted upon request)
* From Mendoza/ town of El Sosneado
* From El Sosneado/ Post in the departure area to the Valley of Tears
* From the Post in the departure area to the Valley of Tears / El Sosneado / Return
* From El Sosneado/ to the city of Mendoza / Return.
* Hotel Mendoza (This service is not included in the budget but can be quoted upon request)
*Accommodation in Mendoza, San Rafael or Malargue
Personal Expenses:
* Not included: Tips, telephone, doctors, extra days in hotels or transportation, etc.
* Tips are not included.
Personal Equipment:
* Not included; This material can be rented or purchased by participants, in specialized houses in the city of Mendoza
Meals in the city or hotels:
* Not included, in the city of Mendoza / Penitentes or any other point in Mendoza.
Costs for abandoning the program:
* Any cost that arises from abandoning the program is assumed by the participants of the expedition.
Extras:
* Not included, any other service not specified in the Included services
***These services not included in the cost of the budget, may be required by the expedition either before or during the same, for example porters or riding animals (saddlers) in which case Mallku Expeditions will coordinate said services, depending on their availability.***
A Story that tells us the silence of the Andes
On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane was lost in the Andes mountain range. On the flight was a rugby team of Uruguayan students who were heading to Chile, after making a stopover in the city of Mendoza, Argentina, they would continue to Santiago, a place that flight n° 571 and its 45 passengers would never arrive at.
That day the plane suffered an accident, after losing its course it suddenly found itself in a mountain range and in its last maneuver to correct course, and try not to collide – a maneuver that the plane failed to do – it lost its tail on the top of those cliffs that would eventually become part of the mountains that were faithful witnesses to this outcome, and that would also shelter the survivors for 72 days, missing from the rest of the world.
16 survivors were exposed to all kinds of survival pressures, some of them managing to reach Chile after literally crossing the Andes mountain range and finding help to end the 72 days of survival, on the VALELE DE LAS LAGRIMAS glacier.
There we will arrive with our ride and see the place where the boys survived
ITINERARY:
Day 1
Meeting with the participants of the ride in Mendoza or El Sosneado.
We will meet with the participants in the city of Mendoza to coordinate the schedule and after having checked the clothing and equipment online, to coordinate all kinds of schedules and prior advice before the trip to Sosneado and Puesto de arrieros y caballos.
Services included: We will inform. We check for missing equipment
Services NOT included:
No other service is included than those specified in included services
Optional service NOT INCLUDED:
- Accommodation in Mendoza
- Transfer Sosneado to Puesto
- Transfer Mendoza El Sosneado Mendoza
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Day 2
Meeting with the participants of the Los Baqueanos ride and mountain guide at Puesto de los Baqueanos.
We will meet the participants at the Post located in the last plain before crossing the Atuel River.
At the post we will have a snack before starting the ride where we will also have a talk on how to ride the animals and the care we need to take into account on mountain trails.
We will have a moderately difficult ride as we will have to overcome steep slopes up and down
After 3/4 hours of riding we arrive at the camp where our rest and that of the horses to be herded await us
Services included:
- Baqueanos
- Mountain guide
- Saddle horses with their saddlebags
- Cargo mules
- Snack table
- Food for the ride
- Base camp services
- Double dormitory tents
- Dinners
- Double dormitory tents
Services NOT included: No other service is included than those specified in included services
Day 3
Horseback riding to the accident site at 3600 meters above sea level
Early we will have our breakfast in a peaceful base camp while the muleteers prepare the horses to begin our 4/5 hour ride to the accident site, where we will visit the memorial site and be able to see the scene They stayed 72 days
After visiting the place we have lunch and descend to the base camp for our dinner and to rest from the saddles.
Included services:
- Guides
- Mountain guide
- Saddle horses with their saddlebags
- Food for the ride
- Base camp services
- Double dormitory tents
- Breakfast and dinner
- Double dormitory tents
Services NOT included: No other service is included than those specified in included services
Day 4
This day we will enjoy visiting a small hidden lagoon and enjoying the surroundings.
We have breakfast while the guides saddle the horses, and slowly we head to the lagoon, which we may have to finish with a small trek to have lunch on its beautiful shores of glaciers and mountain surroundings…
And to close the day we go down to the camp for our barbecue and campfire
Services included:
- Guides
- Mountain guide
- Saddle horses with their saddlebags
- Food for the ride
- Base camp services
- Double dormitory tents
- Breakfast and barbecue
- Double square dormitory tents
- Services NOT included
- Guides
- Mountain guide
- Saddle horses with their saddlebags
- Food for the ride
- Base camp services
- Double dormitory tents
- Breakfast and barbecue
- Double square dormitory tents
Services NOT included: No other service is included than those specified in included services
Day 5
Breakfast and barbecue
We return to the animal post to finish our 3/4 hour ride.
After breakfast at the Barrozo camp, the last ride will take us to the post where we will meet our vehicles and give a hug to the horses that took us to enjoy this incredible experience and natural environment of lagoons, plains, glaciers and eternal mountains
Services included:
- Baqueanos
- Mountain guide
- Saddle horses with their saddlebags
- Cargo mules
- Snack table
- Foods for the ride
- Base camp services
- Double bedroom tents
Services NOT included:
No other service is included than those specified in included services
Optional service not included
- Accommodation in Mendoza
- Transfer from Sosneado to the Post
- Transfer from Mendoza to El Sosneado
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE RIDE AND OUR SERVICES
Our service begins today with our contact with those who want to join us on our incredible journey, sharing and discovering an incredible story.
We take as a starting point a meeting in the city of Mendoza to formalize and coordinate schedules with the participants. We recommend travelling to the city of Malargue and sleeping one night there, which makes the trip shorter, as you have to drive about 50 km of gravel road, which is often in bad conditions, or rather, it is always a road in bad conditions, and to this stretch we add about 4 hours on the first day of riding, which makes it a very hard day for the drivers.
So we start the services and the expedition at the animal and muleteer’s station where we wait for the arrival of all the participants to have a good picnic in the corral while the animals are saddled and the loads for the mules are received. Afterwards we will have a short talk so that together we can see how to take care of the animals and then we will start the ride to the Barroso camp.
The rides are done at a slow pace to enjoy the scenery, the animals are tame and we are always under the supervision of the baqueanos, in each section we take a break to eat something and continue on to the destination, whatever we need, we always go all together.
Once at the camp we will have a dining room for the exclusive use of the
