The excursion for cruise passengers is specially designed to their stay around the port area in order to optimize their visit. It includes passengers pick up and return at the morning site of the ship, according to the ship’s shedule.
Located just 70 km away, you will enjoy more of nature and save long transfer times compared to other options to see penguins.
To optimize the time of the cruise passengers between disembarkation and departure of the ship, we have adapted our excursion to the hourly needs of each cruise, including options for private transfers.
Of course we maintain the quality of the service, offering a visit to the Punta Ninfas viewpoint (elephant seals), the El Pedral reserve (penguins of Magellan), and the traditional Patagonian lamb lunch.
ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES
INCLUDED IN THE RATE
The Punta Ninfas lighthouse is located only fifteen minutes from the farmhouse, on the high cliffs south of the Golfo Nuevo mouth. It is a valuable reference for sailors coming into the gulf, together with being a faithful watcher for the first whales arriving at the gulf every year, during the cold May days. The landscape from the lighthouse at Punta Ninfas overlooking the cliffs will make you feel a privileged witness of a distinct magical and incredible scenery.
The house of El Pedral is an authentic Patagonian farmhouse. Its history and particular design results particularly attractive: El Pedral has been built at the beginning of 20th century. Its materials and furniture has been brought in ships from Europe, which disembarked on the coasts of the proper farm. It has been inaugurated in 1923 and still keeps the aesthetics and style of those times evoking a glorious époque of adventurous entrepreneurs, undisputable pioneers of the development of the Península Valdés.
Every year in September, a growing colony of friendly Magellanic penguins settles in El Pedral. A guide tour among its nests will enable you to know much more about these curious animals. El Pedral keeps a control and cleaning program along its coasts, together with collaborating with the foundation GPS, Global Penguin Society, which monitors the Magellanic penguins’ colony of Punta Ninfas.
Early in the morning and while we visit the natural reserve, our ‘chief roaster’, with the aid of his assistants will prepare a typical and unforgettable Patagonian lamb roasted on a spit.
The menu includes homemade empanadas, assorted salads, house wine and fruit salad.
After lunch and while the children are having fun in the pool or playing football in the football field, you will enjoy a tasty cup of tea or coffee and a delicious Welsh cake. We will return to Puerto Madryn while you rest for a while.
RATES
FULL DAY TRIP WITH PENGUINS FOR CRUISERS
Adults
Juniors
(4 to 12 years old)
Children
(0 to 3 years old)
Full day excursion with transfers, lunch and wine included
USD
120
USD
60
Free
Rates are expressed in dollars (USD), they include taxes and are subject to changes without prior notice. Rates valid until April 2024.
Frequency:: Every day as from 15th September until 15th April.
Schedule:: wait and return of the passengers according to the schedule provided by the cruise.
Venue for departure and return: : Boat mooring site
