We take you where few people still get to: riding the last stretch of the Carretera Austral, sleeping inside the landscape and crossing to El Chaltén where almost nobody crosses.
This is usWe don't tame the remote: we move with it.
There are two ways to take someone somewhere remote. One is to put them in a bubble: everything sorted, everything just like home, and Patagonia, with its wind and its force, on the other side of the glass. It works, but after a while it's like traveling by car: the outside could be happening anywhere.
The other is to strip away what's extra and do what's left very well.
That's what we call primitive luxury: not the rustic, but the essential, done well.
They work on their own or together. Each one solves something that, on your own, often stalls a trip.
Just the right nudge so everyone makes it, and goes further. We rent them in Villa O'Higgins and you return them in Cochrane, Puerto Tranquilo, Cerro Castillo or Balmaceda.
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The first network of sustainable micro-refuges in Patagonia: eight sites alongside local families, from Candelario Mancilla to Balmaceda. They go in without foundations and leave without a trace.
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We build each trip around your dates, your pace and your group. In 2025 we designed the Ecotrek Patagonia for a Buddhist group from Bhutan.
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A crossing withGoing past the end of the Carretera Austral, crossing one of the deepest lakes in the Americas, sleeping in Candelario Mancilla, riding to the border and dropping down to Lago del Desierto and El Chaltén. It's one of those things you do once in a lifetime and don't forget.
123 km · two lakes · one border · one or two days · November to March
See the crossing, stage by stage
This is our territory: the eight SURí Refugios sites along the road and, at the end, the crossing that carries on into Argentina.
The blue line is the Carretera Austral. Where it ends, in Villa O'Higgins, the crossing begins.
8 sites · 24 micro-refuges
In a place like this nobody gets far alone: not travelers, not us. We were welcomed, encouraged and accompanied by people with huge hearts, and the odd quirk or two. That's why many come looking for pristine nature and leave with something else: the memory of the people.
The first to trust the crazy idea of the refuges.
Crossing the lake since 2016.
Every new site in the network is chosen by a family, not a map.
On that stretch, where you never stop marveling at how everything changes from one lake to the next, at how you can hear the silence and how the wind whispers through the lengas, you let go of things you didn't even know you were carrying.
In 2018 I crossed for the first time with my son Nacho, and we came back changed in a way that's hard to explain. SURí was born on that trip. — Javi
We move like the surí
The eternal runner of the Patagonian winds doesn't fight the wind: it feels it in its wings, reads it, adapts and adjusts course, making its own path. That's how we move.
Tell us who's traveling, when, and what you'd like to do. That's enough for us to start putting it together. Someone from the team will reply, from Villa O'Higgins.
Choose how to start the conversation:
Or by email: hola@suripatagonia.com
We work at the end of the road and sometimes the signal doesn't reach us. If we're slow to reply, it's not lack of interest: it's Patagonia. We'll answer as soon as it's back.
Work with travelers? We make the end of the road operable. Agencies and operators
