Tierra del Fuego, or the ‘Land of Fire’, is a windswept, glacially carved archipelago at the extreme southern tip of South America. It is split between Argentina and Chile. The Argentinian side is dominated by the last foothills of the Andes, which twist into jagged ridges, U-shaped glacial valleys, peat bogs and fjord-like channels. The…
Click to keep readingPerito Moreno is one of Patagonia’s most iconic glaciers. The glacier is named after Francisco Pascasio Moreno, a famous Argentine explorer who played a key role in surveying Patagonia and establishing Argentina’s national borders in the late 19th and early 20th century. His nickname was ‘perito’ which means ‘expert’ or ‘specialist’ in Spanish and several…
Click to keep readingGlacier Upsala, on the northern arm of Lago Argentino and within the Los Glaciares National Park is one of the longest glaciers in South America. It is 60km when measured end-to-end and is one of the largest and most powerful glaciers in the region. It is also one of the most fragile. The Southern Patagonian…
Click to keep readingChile has been spectacular and is truly a beautiful country to visit. We started in the Central Valley region exploring Santiago and Valparaiso. We travelled far into the Pacific Ocean to see the moai of Rapanui. And far north into the Atacama to see volcanoes, deserts, lagoons and salt flats. And finally we headed south…
Click to keep readingChile’s long, thin geography produced a mosaic of cultures, thousands of years before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. It was never a unified civilization but rather a set of distinct cultural regions shaped by deserts, coasts, forests and mountains. Chile is one of the earliest known inhabited regions in the Americas. The archeological…
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