Horse riding vacations in the Chilean Andes, from
Bano Morales, cajon del Maipo near Santiago
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Riding Season: Longer rides with camping are usually only possible in the 3 months from January to March. After a winter with little snow it might be possible in the second half of December. Shorter rides, or hotel based riding tours, are possible from November to April.
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Ride I - one day only, excursion from Santiago
Trekking up to the glacier on horseback
This involves an early start, a taxi from your hotel to Valle Arena, beyond Bano Morales, where you meet the horses and guides.
The Morado Natonal Park of Chile, accessed from Bano Morales, is famous for its red river and its glacier. Many tourists visit it, but we take a different approach, where you will see almost nobody except possibly a mountaineer. This approach is from the other side of the mountain, where the glacier is equally spectacular and where the red river begins its flow towards Bano Morales. The approach after a heavy winter is a ride over snow, while after a dry winter, or later in the season, there will be less snow. It is exciting and surprisingly easy to ride across the firm snow - the horses are used to the snow and have no problem - to the foot of the glacier where there is a lake, blue in late summer and frozen white in early summer. We picnic among dry rocks at the base and enjoy incredible views, both of the glacier and further up into the snow-clad mountains. Riding back gets to the car to take you down the mountain to the comforts of civilisation.
Riding across snow to reach the glacier
The glacier and frozen lake
Where the white and the red rivers meet
Picnic in front of the glavier