When visiting their website, I noticed there is no decent information about this zone, services or how to get there. This is the general feeling of the whole experience. After trying to call their phone a couple times - with no response - I decided to try a secondary mobile number, where I talked to Fabian, very briefly as he would tell me to text him instead. When texting, I was completely ignored most of the time, I would send several messages, he would read them (as I received confirmed read check on my side) but totally ignore them or sometimes answer partially one out of five questions I would pose. Repeating the question or trying to kindly ask for someone else's contact did not result in any response either. To get there you must go to Estacion Central, and get a bus called Rutabus 78 and ask the driver to help you jump out in a side road restaurant in the middle of nowhere called Barbarella. There is no sign or instructions from there. You gotta trust your location skills to figure out where the zone is by google map (if you are lucky enough to get some signal there), cross the highway at road level and walk yourself through some crop fields (it is as bad as it reads...) to get there. Once there, forget about feeling welcome. Even there nobody knows nothing and keep pushing you to each other like you are a burden and they are doing you a huge favor when assisting you. After facing all the weird faces I could get when they realized I was a foreigner, they insisted I would not be allowed to jump solo unless I would take a coaching/checking jump with another instructor, but when I agreed to that, they said they couldn't help me because there were no instructors available and blamed me for not getting in touch with them before (which I tried to do for one week of no responses and being ignored). The only actual decent help I could get was from the brazilian pilot Bruna Ploner, which was very kind to try to convince one instructor to help me and also explained me all the technical details about the zone. Their equipment is good but there is only one skydiving company there (Skydive Andes itself), and the monopoly won't let them face it as a business so they really lack the willing to help others. There is only one airplane and depending on the day, very few athletes. If there is not enough people to fill a plane, the area shuts down. The day I went there were merely 3 launches all day and then they announced it would be shutdown due to lack of athletes for the day. Unless you really must for some greater force jump here, I would advice you to don't. Skydiving should be a fun and happy activity but that's not what you will find here. If you insist, get ready to deal with bad mood and bring an extra supply of patience.
