• Starting in Ushuaia, visiting the hanging glaciers of the Darwin Range.
• Cruising the western part of the Strait of Magellan.
• Heading north the protected waterways of the Chilean Channels.
• Visiting Chiloe Island.
In the Southernmost part of Chile (the austral zone), the geography and nature emerge from the most extreme and spectacular forms that it is possible to imagine, adorned with breathtaking landscapes: a pristine concert of native forests, pampas, islands, fjords, channels, fast flowing rivers, lakes and lagoons, hot springs, majestic millenary ice fields and snowdrifts. It is a zone of extinguished cultures, old cattle ranches and important explorers. This is a zone where there is no pollution and the waters of its numerous rivers, lakes, lagoons and brooks have a high level of pureness. Here are the last continental ice fields, silent witnesses of the last glaciations, almost 20 thousand years old. This austral zone of magic geography, extreme nature of luxurious Magallanean forests. 43% of the Chilean Patagonian surface is formed by wild protected areas, in virtue of the existence of a wide biological diversity not touched by man. |
Austra Winter 2010
