Winter at Awasi Patagonia: What’s New for 2027
Snow makes it easier to see what has been moving across the Patagonian steppe. Puma tracks remain visible, the Torres del Paine massif turns white and the stronger winds of summer often give way to calmer days.
For Awasi Patagonia’s 2027 winter season, guests will be able to explore the region through a new private Puma Tracking experience inside the lodge’s 7,000-acre reserve.
Accompanied by their dedicated guide and travelling in an INEOS Grenadier, guests will look for tracks, markings and other signs of puma activity. They will also learn how camera traps are used to monitor the animals that move through the reserve, building on a research programme that began in 2014.
Winter can be a particularly rewarding time for this work. Lower vegetation and tracks left in the snow make signs of activity easier to recognise, although sightings can never be guaranteed. The experience is as much about learning to read the territory as it is about seeing the animal itself.
Puma Tracking is part of Awasi Patagonia’s new conservation initiative, carried out with the technical support of Fundación Faro Verde. The reserve borders Torres del Paine National Park, protecting an area where Patagonian steppe, pre-Andean scrub and Magellanic forest meet.
Beginning with reservations made from August 1, 2026, guests may make a Conservation Contribution of USD 150 per person, per stay. Funds will support wildlife monitoring, camera-trap research, habitat protection and continued scientific study. Awasi Patagonia will publish an annual report detailing the projects supported and their impact.
The 2027 season will also introduce Cenit Villas, designed by Chilean architect Felipe Assadi.
Set on the open hillside beyond the lenga forest, the villas have curved forms and grass-covered roofs that follow the terrain. Floor-to-ceiling windows face the Torres del Paine massif, while the land continues over the rooftops, leaving space for wildlife to cross.
Each villa is reserved exclusively for one group and includes two master suites, generous living and dining areas, and a full-equipped kitchen with a private chef. At its centre, an open-air courtyard offers shelter from the Patagonian wind without closing off the sky.
Guests visiting in winter can also explore snowy forests on foot, ride on horseback or head out for landscape and night-sky photography. As always at Awasi, each day is planned privately and adjusted to the weather, with snowshoes, crampons, gaiters and other equipment available when conditions require them.
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