How To Get There
Fly to Santiago, Chile (from the USA via Miami, Dallas, or Los Angeles) on various airlines including American, Delta, Continental, or Lan Chile. From Santiago you fly to the Puerto Montt (the port city for cruises to Antarctica and the Strait of Magellan) about an hour and 45 minute flight. Then via commuter airline service to Chaiten (about a 45 minute flight) where we pick you up and transport you to the PUMA or to the lodge (about a 30 minute drive). Therefore you can leave the USA in the evening and be fishing the next afternoon! We are easier to get to than Alaska if you live in the eastern half of the USA. You may wish to break up your travel with a day in the lovely capital of Santiago or the coastal resort area of Vina Del Mar, or even Puerto Montt or go straight down and go fishing. There is a one time (life of your passport) landing fee charged by the Chilean government.
We can make your flight reservations from Puerto Montt to Chaiten so that they coordinate well with your arrival in Puerto Montt and your arrival in Chaiten and you can pay this portion at Puerto Montt or we can pay and you can reimburse us. The scheduled commuter airline has a maximum baggage allowance of about 45 lbs. If your baggage weighs more they charge an additional nominal fee.
The most efficient travel down from the USA is to leave on the earliest evening flight so that you arrive in Santiago early in the morning and can transfer to one of the early flights to Puerto Montt so that you arrive there before noon so as to connect to Chaiten.
We can make your flight reservations from Puerto Montt to Chaiten so that they coordinate well with your arrival in Puerto Montt and your arrival in Chaiten and you can pay this portion at Puerto Montt or we can pay and you can reimburse us. The scheduled commuter airline has a maximum baggage allowance of about 45 lbs. If your baggage weighs more they charge an additional nominal fee.
The most efficient travel down from the USA is to leave on the earliest evening flight so that you arrive in Santiago early in the morning and can transfer to one of the early flights to Puerto Montt so that you arrive there before noon so as to connect to Chaiten.
