Chile Destinations
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Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
Introduction to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego |
Few places in the world have captivated the imagination of explorers and travelers like Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. It has been 4 centuries since the first Europeans sailed through on a boat captained by Ferdinand Magellan. And yet this vast, remote region is still, for the most part, unexplored.
Sailors from around the world continue to test their luck and courage in these harrowing straits and fjords. Mountaineers stage elaborate excursions through rugged territories, only to be beaten back, like their predecessors, by unrelenting storms. A traveler can drive for days without seeing another soul on the vast Patagonian Pampa, his perception of time and distance so warped that he believes he is the only human left on the planet. What seduces so many people to Patagonia is the idea of the "remote" -- indeed, the very notion of traveling to The End of the World. It is a seduction, but also an illusion. After all, people do live here -- very few people, but those who do are hardy survivors.
A harsh, wind-whipped climate and Patagonia's geological curiosities have produced some of the most beautiful natural attractions in the world: the granite towers of Torres del Paine and Los Glaciares national parks, the Southern and Northern Ice Fields with their colossal glaciers, the flat Pampa broken by multicolored sedimentary bluffs, and the emerald fjords and lakes that glow an impossible sea-foam blue. In the end, this is what compels most travelers to plan a trip down here. Beyond landscapes, the region's "cowboys" (called gauchos in Argentina and baquedanos in Chile) lend a certain air of romanticism.
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