Patagonia
Two months on the southern tip of South America
Month: January 2013
Hike around Cerro Castillo
The most famous mountain on the Carretera Austral in the remote south of Chile looks like a fairy-tale castle; on a hike there are mountain lakes and viewpoints to discover
The Petrified Forest of Sarmiento
Petrified trunks of Cretaceous palms and conifers in the Patagonian steppe (Argentina)
Perito Moreno National Park and trek to Cerro San Lorenzo
Lonely wilderness, Patagonia as you imagine it: The scarcely visited national park in Argentina offers impressive views and solitude and the third highest mountain in Patagonia towers above the steppe as a wall of ice and rock
Cueva de los Manos
Early history in a beautiful gorge (Patagonia, Argentina)
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego
Hikes at the “End of the World”: Views, bays and bogs in Tierra del Fuego National Park (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina)
Punta Arenas
Penguins, wrecks and craters — Excursions to Isla Magdalena and along the Strait of Magellan to Pali Aike (Patagonia, Chile)