Patagonia

Two months on the southern tip of South America

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)

Torres del Paine Cirquit

The Cirquit, a complete circumnavigation of Torres del Paine including the “W”, is the most famous trek in Patagonia (Chile)

Perito Moreno Glacier

A walk on perhaps the most fascinating glacier in the world in Los Glaciales National Park (Patagonia, Argentina)

Trek to Cerro Torre and Fitz Roy

Hunting for the best light at the most beautiful vantage points at the foot of the famous granite mountains in Patagonia (Argentina)

Bariloche

Hikes in the hinterland of the “Argentinian Saint Moritz” (Nahuel Huapi Traverse and Cirquito Chico)

Conguillio National Park and climbing Llaima

Hikes through rustic forests, up to the snow-covered Sierra Nevada past araucaria, views of lakes and the Llaima volcano, and finally an ascent of Llaima itself.

Villarrica and Huerquenes

A view into the crater of Villarrica and a hike to lakes and araucaria (lake district in Patagonia, Chile)

Puyehue

Tracing the latest volcanic eruption in Chile

Puerto Varas in the Lake District of Chile

The lake district with its green fields, dense rainforests, countless lakes of all sizes and towering volcanoes and mountain peaks (cf. The Formation of Mountains) is, so to speak, the southern end of civilisation in South America: a little further on, the sparsely populated wilderness of Patagonia begins. I fly to Puerto Montt and drive … Continue reading “Puerto Varas in the Lake District of Chile”