PATAGOINA NATIONAL PARK, CHILE
TWO HIKES, 50KM, THREE DAYS 10-13 January. The drive into the park meandered gently for nearly 20 kilometres before reaching the visitors’ centre. The road wound through open grasslands, following rivers and backed by serrated mountains still holding pockets of late snow. Guanaco roamed and grazed — some lifting their heads as we passed, most […]
CARRETERA AUSTRAL – Puyuhuapi to Coihaique, Chile
PUYUHUAPI December 30 – Back on the road, our next stop was Puyuhuapi, a town tucked at the end of a fjord with a very different story. Settled by German immigrants in the early 1930’s, this was a place carved from dense forest by people who battled relentless rain, isolation, and cold to build a […]
CARRETERA AUSTRAL – Hornopirén to Chaiten, Chile
By the time we reached the start of the Carretera Austral, the weather had already set the tone — cold, wet, and windy. We camped that night on the roadside in the small town of Hornopirén, queued for the next morning’s ferry alongside others doing the same. Vans and campers with Chilean, Brazilian, and Argentine […]