Chile Kayak Trips – Select Skill Level
Select your Chile kayak trips by skill level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert Chile Kayak trips offer everything from zero to hero kayak experience. Whether you are just starting to learn kayaking, want to improve your combat roll, get media running a waterfall, or are coming to kayak stout rivers and basalt canyons Pucon Kayak Retreat offers industry leading kayak instruction and Chile’s best whitewater for all skills. Easy to use Chile Rivers Guide helps kayakers learn more about varying kayak skill level rivers before you travel.
Student-centric kayak instruction from industry leaders give daily kayak lessons related to your skills and the day’s river features. It’s a week long progression of learning experiences including class room kayak theory, personal analysis, video reviews, demo and model, and of course lots of kayaking. This level of instruction on Chile’s best river features ensures your kayak development will continue throughout the year.
Retreat Mission “…to recruit, train & retain industry leaders,” guarantees best in industry instruction. Did you know Pucon Chile has the best rivers in the world for beginner and intermediate kayaking?
READ MORE, Best Time to Kayak Chile rivers.
Beginner Chile Kayak Trips
No experience required (equipment provided, optional ayak or inflatable kayak)
Imagine learning to kayak roll and strokes with a vista of Volcan Villarrica. Beginner kayakers learn rolls and strokes in lakes to quickly progress to scouting and running river rapids. It’s a week of learning how to navigate whitewater rivers in a kayak.
Intermediate Chile Kayak Trips
Class II to III+ (Kayak or Inflatable Kayak)
The Retreat’s backyard Rio Trancura is the epicenter of the region’s best whitewater with rivers in every direction. Kayak intermediate sections to develop scouting, eddy catching, ferrying and rapid exploration. Intermediate kayak trips are our specialty. Check out the Chile Rivers Guide.
Advanced Chile Kayak Trips
Class III to IV – solid roll varyious trips available (Kayak)
Annually, global kayakers migrate to Chile to kayak glorious waterfall canyons and rivers. Are you ready for boofing, stomping, fast eddy piercing, rapid challenges, big water & waterfall canyons? Chile’s best rivers and industry leaders guarantee your epic kayak experience.
Expert Chile Kayak Trips
Class IV to V (100% Combat Roll)
Got advanced river running or creeking experience and keen to charge stouts, spouts, and boofs. Chile’s best river canyons and big volume rivers are timed for optimal flows. We will instruct you on the fast paced rapids, waterfalls, best sections of the season. Let us deal with the logistics, access, and safety. You focus on your Go Pro and your lines…
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Retreat Kayak Trips Include
Kayak Choice
Choose from Chile’s best whitewater kayak fleet latest and greatest brand name designs.
Lodging
Choose from unique riverside lodging options that best suit your comforts & budget.
Wining & Dining
Trips include chef cooked breakfast, lunch, appetizers, dinner, and two table bottles of vino nightly.
Transportation
Airport transfers, daily river trips, and multi-adventure activities in reliable vehicles.
Clubs, Schools &
Custom Groups
Got a group or itinerary that does not fit with our planned trips? We can customize a trip for you. If you have a dream itinerary, we have the existing infrastructure, resources, and staff to accommodate you. Not sure what you have in mind for your trip? We can help with that, too. Many clubs, schools, and groups work closely with our team to organize custom logistics.
Retreat Calendar of Scheduled Trips
Student Week of Chile Rivers – 50% DISCOUNT
Students kayak Chile rivers and earn Wilderness First Responder Certification over holiday break. Daily after WFR classes instruction for BEG-INT-ADV kayakers.
Women of Chile Rivers Kayak Trip
Chile kayaking trip for intermediate and advanced women kayakers led by kayak school owners, competitors and expedition leaders on Chile’s best whitewater.
Pucon Classics Advanced
Multiple WEEKS Available
Advanced Chile Whitewater Kayaking Trip guarantees blue rivers, waterfalls, slides, and boofing all on world class creeking and big rivers.
Rolls & Rivers Beginner Chile Kayak Trip
Multiple Dates Available
For BEGINNER (no experience required) kayakers keen to learn the combat roll and paddling fundamentals on Chile rivers. Bring a friend or meet new ones while you learn to kayak Chile rivers. All-inclusive
Fuy Plus Pucon Rivers
MULTIPLE DATES AVAILABLE
Advanced kayaking in Chiles best waterfall destinations of Rio Fuy and Pucon. Blue waterfalls with Pucon rivers and basalt canyons offers multiple sections for advanced whitewater kayakers.
Pucon Family Multi-Sport Adventures
AVAILABLE DATES
Pucon’s best multi-sport adventures travelers choose from raft, horse, hot springs, wine tasting, volcanos and glaciers while living riverside.
Chile Kayak y Multi-Adventure Trips Calendar
Calendar details best white water kayak Chile and multi-sport adventure trips by month and skill. Links to trip data make reserving your trip easy.
Kathy Zerkle and Friends Chile Birthday Party
Happy birthday Kathy. Over the years nurse/ranger/psychotherapist Kathy Zerkle has mended more broken river bodies and minds than all of us put together. It is with great pleasure that Pucon Kayak Retreat offers Kathy & friends a birthday week of retreat Chilean river style amongst her besties.
Pucon Creek Week (IV to V)
NOV 11 – 18
POPULAR… combo with Claro Plus
Kayak Chile’s best whitewater in basalt canyons, volcano drainages, slides, big water rapids, and stick your waterfall lines. A week of epic kayaking and celebrating Chile’s best whitewater region during optimal flows.
Hughes Family Goes to Patagonia
Hughes Family Goes to Patagonia! It is with pride retreat owner David Hughes announces the Hughes Family Goes to Patagonia trip. This page serves as a guide and checklist for the Hughes Family Patagonia Vacation Plan. Page does NOT detail trip itinerary or advertising...
Rio Claro Plus – Kayak Chile Waterfalls
MULTIPLE DATES AVAILABLE
Advanced and Expert Kayakers
Kayak Chiles Claro Canyon basalt waterfalls. 66,000,000 years milled and carved to kayaking perfection. Access, logistics, equipment, meals, coaching included. Bring your Go Pro and elbow pads.