Depart Puerto Natales before dawn in a private vehicle, reaching the park as golden-hour light spills over the Andes. Your specialist guide — trained in wildlife tracking and animal behaviour — uses a radio network spanning the park to maximise your chances of a close encounter.

Read tracks, interpret behaviour, and move through the landscape with purpose. Morning sessions target high-probability territories. After a full lunch in the field, afternoon tracking resumes as pumas grow active before sunset.

A sighting is never guaranteed — these are wild, free-roaming animals — but this method consistently produces the highest encounter rates in Patagonia. Beyond pumas, the day delivers: guanacos, Andean condors, Patagonian foxes, lesser rheas and a landscape so vast and raw it feels like the edge of the world.

A small private group of 3–6 means the guide's attention is entirely yours. Departure is from your hotel or accommodation in Puerto Natales. Park entrance fee, return private transfer, specialist guide, and full trail lunch are all included.