Category Archives: Chile

A NEW New View Tour for 2024

The Atacama Desert & Easter Island (Rapa Nui) March 2024!   A tour in 3 parts: 4 nights at each destination: From Santiago, Chile fly to Calama to stay in the town of San Pedro de Atacama Discover the Valley … Continue reading

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Tierra del Fuego & Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

A 2023 New View Tour to Patagonia After a very long flight and extended drive from the airport, we are delighted to join the Andrews and the Parrish couples in the adjacent restaurant in a glass atrium with views of … Continue reading

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NVT 2023 Hello Travelers!

Travels & Trips for 2023 & 2024 There is nothing as much fun as the chance to head out on a trip, except to know that you have a small pod of friends to travel with you to enjoy the … Continue reading

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Chilean Shoreline

We walked across the Chilean shoreline to the Argentine border in Tierra del Fuego on Lake Deseado ! Guide is Bacho in bright green.

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Douglas Tompkins’ Patagonia

Douglas Tompkins: Wild Legacy from Tompkins Conservation on Vimeo.

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Patagonia Flat

The newly marked trail starts only 15 minutes from the Lodge where a small arrow sign directs us to the right.  We will make the 16 km loop counterclockwise – hopefully running into the suspension bridge after 5 kms. Some … Continue reading

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Magdellena Penguins

Magdellena Penguins on Magdellena Island off the coast of Punta Arenas, the farthest southern city in Chile. Here for a short season of nesting, the penguins coexist with a few thousand gulls who keep to their own section of the … Continue reading

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Guanacos

These llama like cameloids are flourishing in the Chacabuco Valley or Patagonia, Chile where sheep farming is no longer competing for the grasses. The guanacos keep a community order that is fascinating to watch. Each member of the herd has … Continue reading

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The Lodge at Chacabuco Valley

The Lodge at Chacabuco Valley, Patagonia Park, Chile is a uniquely Patagonian experience! The interesting aspect of this new national park of the country of Chile is that several facilities were already built by Kris and Douglas Tomkins in order … Continue reading

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Boat Captain

The boat captain is right at home. He maneuvers through the waters never touching the stones or rocks that are especially soft. He motors across the lake if its blowing less than 50 kms/hr! We have waited over two days … Continue reading

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The Marble Caves

More pictures from the Marble Caves – it was very cold and early morning crisp air. The rock formations look more dramatic in the pictures. I snapped away with my IPhone X – amazing camera! The whole tour takes an … Continue reading

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Catedral de Mármol

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Magdellena Island

Reviewing pix of penguins from Patagonia. This is Magdellena Island with rows of penguins on the top of the ledge and families of sea lions. We are allowed an hour to walk through the colony of nesting couples tending their … Continue reading

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Marble Caves on Carratera Austral #7

On our last day of the Patagonia tour, we stop for an early and very chilly boat ride across the huge Lago General Carrera to see the Marble Caves – recently noted as a must see by the NYTimes (I … Continue reading

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Views of the Torres del Paine Park

Torres del Paine – then on to the Aisen Region of Patagonia – including the Lago General Carrera – an enormous lake where we stay in Puerto Tranaquillo for a night en route to Patagonia Park…..

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Cerrito Castillo

Entering Cerrito Castillo Patagonia Chile — at Reserva nacional Cerro Castillo.

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Goals

The goal is to return in 21 years to this sign! I am standing in Argentina with Chile behind me…..it is also an area where the regional species of rheas like to graze (they look like a small ostrich.) The … Continue reading

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Helen Davies Journal

Puma Watch! 11 Feb 2019 It was in the morning after our long hike that our guide, Hans, had seen tracks on the dirt road near our lodge. There a puma had dragged the carcass of a guanaco (small llama … Continue reading

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Getting to Patagonia Park

To get to the new Patagonia Park established two years ago in Chile thanks to the donation of millions of acres of land by Kris Tomkins and the Tomkins Conservation organization – you drive from Coyhaique to Cochrane! We stopped … Continue reading

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Puerto Tranquill

Hans, our Chilean guide wearing his Patagonia pride, introduces us to the General Carrera Lake. Lago General Carrera – the largest in Chile – half of it is in Argentina where it is known as Lago Buenos Aires It is … Continue reading

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