Leg 70 SAVY - Puerto Madryn (Argentina) to SAVE - Esquel (Argentina)
SAVY - Airport Info
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ICAO code: SAVY
Airport name: Puerto Madryn Airport
Location: Puerto Madryn
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Puerto Madryn Info
The city of Puerto Madryn lies in the northeastern region of the province of Chubut, on the shores of Golfo Nuevo, in one of the most sheletered places of the Patagonic coast at sea level. This pushing city and important pole of development in the Argentine South, constitutes a tourist centre of relevance that offers the visitor numberless attractions.
With more than 30 kilometres of beaches with transparent waters of an extraordinary colour and white cliffs, this city offers the tourist a landscape of great beauty.
Puerto Madryn is the most important national centre for the practice of scuba diving.
Besides, the city has been the centre of multiple activities such as fishing tournaments, snorkelling, jet skiing, water skiing, sailing, mountain bike and windsurf (for those who enjoy defying the patagonic winds), for many years. Península Valdés, at 100 km. from the city, gives you the possibility of watching a varied and important sea fauna such as the Southern Franca whale, Orcas, Elephants, Sea woolves, etc.
The city comprises an excellent tourist infrastructure for the visitor as regards both hotels and gastronomy, where shellfish is the most required dish.
The tourist service proposal in Puerto Madryn is rich in accomodation and gastromic establishments, appart from a large quantity of houses for temporary rent that satisfy the accomodation needs of the visitors.
SAVE - Airport Info
ICAO code: SAVE
Airport name: Esquel Airport
Location: Esquel
Useful information
Airport elevation: '
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Esquel Info
It is the most important tourist centre of the Chubut mountain range standing over a beatiful mountaineous valley.
The city is located on the Esquel riverside and is surrounded by the Mount Zeta (the Zed letter), Mount 21, La Cruz (the Cross) and Mount Nahuel Pan; These mountain's slopes make up a great amphitheatre where the different forest lands and vegetations of the valley stand out giving birth to a charming landscape in which millenarian trees, crystal water rivers and hundreds of water mirrors protected by thick woods converge delineating a zone for the astonishment, the enjoyment and the adrenaline.
Its main attractions are concentrated on the winter and summer seasons, but you will have the possibility to enjoy this city all the year long.
The most interesting tourist points are the ski runs of La Hoya in winter and Los Alerces National Park with its millenarian woods in summer.
It offers two types of excursions and adventure tourism activities, which you can enjoy both on your own or with the help of some local tourism agency or company.
The commercial chain of clothing and equipment for the different activities such as fishing, skiing, mountaineering, etc; guarantee a good level of provision.
The regional products, such as the handicraft textiles made by the descendants of aboriginals and the authochtonous gastronomic delights, can be enjoyed or bought in restaurants or specialized shops.
As a tourist city per excellence, it posseses an important infrastructure with modern hotels, hostelries, cabins, residences, restaurants, cafeterias, tea houses, casino and discotheques.