Sample Day:
After a quick breakfast at first light, your team sets off on a day-trek to survey parts of the forest several kilometers from camp. Navigating your way towards the start of the transects, you cross several streams and climb many ridges. Enjoying lunch in an opening in the woods, you discover a nest of cachana parakeets close by. Having marked this location for a later visit to collect data for another part of the project, you start the survey transect. Late in the day, the group returns to base where the rest of the team (returned from an overnight transect) have already prepared a hot dinner.
Sample Week:
Depending on seasonal differences, the expedition works on several different projects at times in different survey areas. Living and working very closely together, the expedition members conduct surveys and might spend a few days in smaller mobile groups away from each other on other parts of the projects. Within a year, the expeditions' work includes research projects on cachana (parakeets), huina cats, araucaria trees, andean condors, wild boar, red deer, vegetation surveys, waterfowl, mink, guanacos as well as some exotic vegetation erradication and possible other projects.
Expedition Highlights
- Enjoy a unique adventure in the diverse and stunning landscapes of Patagonia
- Venture into new environments, traversing immense mountains, thick forests and arid steppe areas, to really test your endurance
- From minimal kit bivi camps to multi day survey treks, out deep in the forest or in the transition zone, be ready to experience Patagonia
- Acclimatize to the cold climate conditions and participate in cold weather outdoor training or hot weather and very arid conditions – depending on the season
- Complete a CPR/first aid course with special wilderness additions
- Gaze up in awe at the Milky Way on clear nights and the vast blue skies of Patagonia by day
- Head out to monitoring stations and learn the specific skills required to record and monitor condors and other wildlife
- Enjoy unique wildlife experiences working alongside Argentinean biologists and guides
- Live in tents and learn camp-craft
- Challenge and push yourself, whilst making new friends and exploring new and undiscovered environments
- Truly experience the majesty, beauty and uniqueness of the Argentinean wilderness!
