Private Patagonia expedition Where the road ends, your Patagonia begins
By boat from the San Rafael glacier to Kent Island.
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One boat, six people at most, and a fjord most travellers never reach.
One place leftJanuary 20 – February 1, 2027
12 days · 4 phases
Four days on a boat. Your phone stays in the cabin.
01 · GlacierLaguna San Rafael. A wall of ice you hear before you grasp how big it is.
02 · FjordFour days aboard the Patagonia I, out to Kent Island in the Chonos Archipelago, which the Beagle surveyed in 1834–35.
03 · RainforestWaterfalls and the Rio Tabo. A rainforest where all you hear is water.
04 · Hot springsWarm water in the middle of the rainforest. It’s raining all around, and you don’t care.
1834 · HMS Beagle
In Darwin’s wake.
The islands we sail through to Kent Island had no chart until Darwin’s ship drew one. At the turn of 1834 and 1835, HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, surveyed the Chonos Archipelago. Nearly two hundred years later these waters are still just as remote: no roads, reachable only by boat.
History of the Aysén region- 1834HMS Beagle maps the Chonos Archipelago
- 1950Václav Nový sails to Aysén and stays
- 2027We sail the same waters
Who leads it
Not run by an agency.
I’m Jaroslav Sokol and I own land in the inner part of Aysén Fjord. I lead the expedition myself, with a local captain and crew.
Meet the founderWhat it is
A private expedition into the inner Aysén Fjord
A road runs to the mouth of the fjord. Beyond it, only a boat with a local captain.
Fjord, glacier, rainforest, steppe, hot springs, open Pacific.
Your own cabin on the boat, cabins on land. Decent and clean, not a resort.
Six people, because the boat has no more cabins. And because silence doesn’t work with a coach-load.
More about the expedition
A boat for your group alone
Patagonia I is our base in the fjords: a small boat for no more than six guests, with your own cabin, a shared living space and a crew who know the area. It is not a hotel. It is a comfortable, practical base for reaching places where there is no hotel.
“…the strange noises, which, although frequently heard within these gloomy forests, yet scarcely disturb the general silence.”
For you if you want Patagonia, but not with a backpack and not on a bus full of people.
Not for you if you expect a five-star resort, a minute-by-minute program and constant signal.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Who has been to the fjord
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With you on the ground: Francisco Mora, who has run expedition logistics at Navega Patagonia since 2016, and the crew of the Patagonia I. Partners
Safety
Is it safe?
Everyone asks. Here is how it works.
Boat and crew
We sail with Navega Patagonia on the Patagonia I. The crew takes small groups around the Aysén sea, and Francisco Mora has run their expedition logistics since 2016.
Contact
In parts of the fjord there is no mobile signal. There is Starlink on the boat for emergency contact.
Health
There are medical supplies on board. The hospital is in Puerto Aysén, where we set out from. Travel insurance covering remote areas is required.
Weather
Patagonian weather changes. The program adapts to it. Plan B is a different Plan A, not improvisation.
Jan 20 – Feb 1, 2027 · one place left
One place left on the January boat.
The January group is almost complete. I lead the expedition myself, from landing in Balmaceda to the last evening, and I talk to everyone before they join, so we both know it makes sense. If January is too soon, the 2028 season is open.
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