First Name: Matty Age: 37 Occupation: Academic researcher Which operator did you go with or did you organise it yourself? I organized my trip from Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama myself. If you had a local guide, what was…
Isla de Chiloé, Chile
When Darwin visited Chiloé in 1835, he described the island as “the border of Christianity”, both in the geographical and spiritual sense. The brilliant researcher was marveled by the co-habitation achieved between Mapuche Indians and the Spanish conquerors over three…
Bear Grylls in Patagonia
Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water. Next Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks…
Creature Feature: Guanacos in Patagonia
David Thyberg © The sleek and powerful guanacos are native to the arid, mountainous regions of South America. In Chile and Argentina, they are more numerous in the Patagonian steppes, in places like the Torres del Paine National Park, and…