PUERTO MADRYN: It has a population of approximately 50.000 inhabitants, most of them coming from the provinces  of the north starting from the creation of the factory of aluminum Aluar in 1974. The factory next to the fishing industry and the tourism constitutes its main source of economic revenues. It is located in the northwest of the province of Chubut from 1.400 Km.of Buenos Aires and it is the entrance door to the Peninsula and influenceareas. There are hotels of diverse categories but there are not 5 *, located in strategic points of the city. It receives tourism in two different seasons: Winter and spring is the season of whales and fauna, while the summer it will  transform  in a city with good temperature to enjoy its beaches. 
Its weather: Fresh winters but not with temperatures under zero. Windy springs with moderate temperatures to cold. Hot summers with something of wind ending up averaging the 30° and  moderate autumns.

PENINSULA VALDÉS: It is located in the northwest of the province of the Chubut. It has a surface of 4000 km2,  a coast of 110 Km  open to the sea and 150 Km in waters of the Gulfs Nuevo and San José. The nearest city is “Puerto Madryn” and it has an only center town that is the Villa of “Puerto Piramide”. More than 90% of its extension are fields of private property dedicated to the extensive breeding of the livestock ovino. It is a semi-arid atmosphere with a precipitation of approximately 300 mm per year. The temperature in winter is cold but not with temperatures under zero. The spring is cold with strong winds. The summer is warm and  moderate autumns. The waters of the Gulfs Nuevo and San José have temperatures in winter near to 14ºC and in summer near 17 grades. In spring it is used for fauna tourism (to sight whales, elephants, wolves, etc.) and in summer “Puerto Piramide” becomes a place spa. “Peninsula Valdés” offers to the visitor a great quantity of natural and historical attractiveness. The posts of marine elephants, wolves and marine birds make it an incomparable destination for its wealthy fauna and the easiness to access to her. In the interior it meets a great quantity of wild fauna with gumps, choiques, maras, rodents, birds, reptiles and the vegetation of the steppe patagónica. Each coast hides treasures and  incredible scenaries that make it an endless destination of knowing.
Although a regular circuit of one day has settled down, it is impossible to have in so few time a completed idea of what this enormous natural park means. 

PUNTA DELGADA : It is located in the southeast end of  “Peninsula Valdes”. This is an Army recycling construction that becomes a hotel and restaurant where they offer services of first level. Under the cliffs there are several posts of marine elephants from the south. It is the area with bigger concentration of marine elephants from the Atlantic Sea. There arenot faunas-guards and theprotection of the animals, as the entrance of tourists it is controlled for the staff of the tourist complex. 

CALETA VALDÉS : The reservation is located in a point called Punta Cantor. It is a  marine elephants post. It exists a fauna-guard, sanitariums and  drinks and foods stand. Besides the elephants, the attractiveness of this reservation it constitutes  the geologic formation and the landscape of  Caleta Valdés that extends for 35 Km., from this point toward the north. It is a good place to observe elephants, marine birds, the external coast and occasionally whales and marine wolves 

PUNTA NORTE: It is a reservation located in the northwest end of  “Peninsula Valdés”. You can access from Punta Cantor to the south or from “Puerto Piramide” to the west. In both cases there are rubble roads. There is a distance of 80 Km. from Piramide and it is not a reservation usually used by the regular tours. There there is a post of marine wolves from december until march and at the same time whales appears around the beach. The whales are occasional, they will eat marine wolves, and the probability of observing them is near 10%. 

PUERTO PIRÁMIDE : The Reservation is located in the tip that takes its name in the Gulf  Nuevo, at 100 Km. From Pto. Madryn. It is a post of marine wolves. At only 5 Km.from  the village of Pto Piramide, place from where there are frank whales. The village has near 100 permanent inhabitants which lives mainly from the tourism industry. There are foods Stand, lodging,, restaurants and several operators to sight whales, to carry out diving tours or for fishing. In summer it becomes a beach village. 

PENINSULA FULL TOUR:  You can feel the nature in the Humanity's  Natural Patrimony of “Peninsula Valdés”.  In the morning we leave  Puerto Madryn toward the North for the provincial route N°1,  stops then at 17 Km. to connect with the provincial route N°2. and traveling about 77 kms. you arrives to the Isthmus Carlos Ameghino, entrance door to the Reservation of Peninsula Valdés where we visit  the Center of Interpretation of the geography, flora, fauna and history of  Carlos Ameghino place. Continuing 20 Km. for the same route, we stray toward the east in order to reach Caleta Valdés, continental post of marine elephants, where we will be able to observe  these magnificent animals in full stage of skin reproduction. Continuing for the provincial route N° 47 we arrives to the Lighthouse of Punta Delgada, which presents characteristic peculiar to be the only place on the east riverbank of the Peninsula.
We return to  Puerto Piramide, we enjoy a lunch with typical plates of the region and we will see the  whales in a boats. To conclude the trip, you would be arriving to the city of Puerto Madryn in hours of the afternoon.  
Duration of the trip: 11 hours.  Journey: approx. 400 Km.