Patagonia

The southern reaches of Patagonia have become known to aficionados as one of the most beautiful, unspoiled and remote places in the world. It is the definition of wildness: massive mountain ranges, steppes, ice fields, glaciers, rivers, lakes and snow, with an abundance of unusual wildlife.

Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, occupies a special place in the hearts of Chileans, akin to that occupied by Yosemite for Americans. It has wonderfully diverse areas that let you explore mountain glaciers, walk, take a ship on a glacier lake and simply take in landscapes unlike any others on Earth.

Beneath the granite mountains of the Paine Massif there is a great deal of wildlife: guanacos (relatives of llamas), rheas, Andean condors, pumas, Patagonian foxes and a wide variety of birds.