{"id":195958,"date":"2014-05-12T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.swoop-patagonia.co.uk\/?p=195958"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T12:32:55","slug":"kush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/kush\/","title":{"rendered":"Puma Tracking and Adventure Cruise Patagonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">Kush and his friends returned in March from a trip to Patagonia during which they embarked on a <a title=\"Puma Tracking Trips Torres del Paine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/pumas-patagonia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Puma Tracking<\/a> trip in Torres del Paine, followed by a 4 night\u00a0<a title=\"Cruise Punta Arenas to Ushuaia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/patagonian-cruise-punta-arenas-ushuaia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruise from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia<\/a>. Here Kush tells us about their experiences on the trip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>&#8216;It\u2019s an incredible feeling seeing a Puma on foot less than 5 meters away from you. All of us were elated and kept replaying every moment again and again. It is a fantastic experience.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196036\" alt=\"DSC_0941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_09411.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>How was your Cruise from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><\/b>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/australis-cruises\/\">cruise<\/a> was fantastic. We really enjoyed the food the hospitality and the excursions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196039\" alt=\"DSC_0491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0491.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>How was the Puma Tracking trip?<\/b> <b><\/b>It was again fantastic. I can&#8217;t recommend our guide Carlos enough. He went out of the way to accommodate us and to make sure we were comfortable at all times. He even woke us up as early as 0430 and brought us back home as late as 2200 just because we were so determined to see Pumas. He carried packed lunch with us on our hikes and put up an extraordinary spread in the middle of nowhere. He was great and so was our driver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-196035\" alt=\"DSC_9236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_92361.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>What was the highlight of your trip overall?\u00a0<\/b>We managed to see Pumas and that was the highlight of the trip. We saw a sub-adult drinking, walking stretching and eating a day old Guanaco carcass, and the next day in the early morning we saw an adult (most likely its mother) walking quickly across the steppe.\u00a0It\u2019s an incredible feeling seeing a Puma on foot less than 5 meters away from you: all of us were elated and kept replaying every moment again and again. It is a fantastic experience.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196037\" alt=\"DSC_0834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0834.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Is there anything you would have changed about your trip?<\/b> <b><\/b>At our accommodation at Hosteria Pehoe we had problems with hot water, and the food at our first accommodation at the Ranch was very poor, but other than that it was good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196038\" alt=\"DSC_0811\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0811.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Overall\u2026<\/b> <b><\/b>Overall we had a great time and I will definitely be returning with a few adjustments to the accommodation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-196041\" alt=\"DSC_0028\" src=\"https:\/\/www.swoop-patagonia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/DSC_0028.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"938\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kush and his friends returned in March from a trip to Patagonia during which they embarked on a Puma Tracking trip in Torres del Paine, followed by a 4 night\u00a0Cruise from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia. 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