Category: Epic Adventures

At Swoop, we’re obsessed with Patagonia. In the 2025/26 travel season that’s just finished, we helped over 3,300 travellers experience Patagonia, from the Chilean and Argentinian Lake Districts in the north to Cape Horn off the final tip of South America, and all points in between.  We’ve got the expertise to do this because every […]

Southern Patagonia is home to some of South America’s most wild landscapes: granite mountain peaks watched over by condors, mighty glaciers with crashing icebergs, and sweeping steppes where the guanacos roam free It’s a place for outdoor adventure, with incredible hiking and trekking, the chance to track pumas or ride the range with the local […]

What’s the best way to see the most of Patagonia in a single trip? You might argue for getting in a car and heading down the Carretera Austral, that epic highway that runs down the spine of Chilean Patagonia? Or you might dash about with a series of internal flights, ticking off as many spots […]

When you visit a place that’s sometimes described as a new frontier in travel, it can sometimes be hard to know what to expect. You can look at an itinerary but struggle to conjure in your mind what you’ll be experiencing – not just the scenery and the views, but the feeling of the trail, […]

As a travel company with deep roots in Patagonia, we often ask ourselves how we can be better guardians of the places we love. The answer often lies with the partners we work with closely across the region. One of these is Hotel Las Torres in Torres del Paine, which has one of the most […]

At the far southern tip of South America in Chilean Patagonia, a new national park is taking shape at Cabo Froward on the Magellan Strait. In a project spearheaded by the conservation organisation Rewilding Chile along with Tompkins Conservation, it will be the newest addition to the Route of the Parks trail running the length […]

There are some trails that you know you want to walk as soon as you hear about them. For me, the Dientes de Navarino trek was definitely one. It wasn’t just the wildness of the name (dientes are teeth in Spanish, suggesting a certain jagged quality to its mountains) but its description: the southernmost trek […]

Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park has the largest concentration of pumas anywhere on earth. For many people they’re as much of a draw as the towering granite peaks that give the park its name. Pumas are the most widely distributed large predators in the Americas. Their range covers large chunks of Canada and the […]