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Travelogue: Journey to the end of the world (Ushuaia, Terra del Fuego, Patagonia)

 
Trekking and exploring Santiago, Punta Arenas, Puerto Williams, Peurto Natales, Torres del Paine, Coyhaique, Puerto Montt
 
This travelogue ist part of an around-the-world journey travelogue. The authors travelled six months around the world. This ist the chilean part of the journey,
 
Megan Lyles is a native New Yorker who has also lived in San Francisco. Having already traveled in many countries she is now tackling a one-year bus trip from New York City to the tip of South America with photographer Michael Simon and doing freelance work along the way.
   
Trekking in Patagonia (Chile) Patagonia's wild peaks and blue glaciers have long been the ultimate lost frontier. Now an American gone gaucho is carving out an incredible new trekking kingdom in Chile's vast, unspoiled Aysén region, and adventure's South American dreamscape just got a whole lot bigger.
 
This is the story of a trip to Chile and Peru my old buddy Pål and I made back in November '93.
Seeing Easter Island was the highlight of the trip.
In Peru our main points of interest included the Inca capital Cuzco, with visits to nearby Machu Picchu.
 

Argentina: Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, Tierra del Fuego, Aconcagua / Chile: Parque Nacional Torres del Paine / ...

 
We traveled in Peru from July 14 to August 12 2000, mostly around the Cusco area. We made excursions to Machu Picchu via a four-day back-packing trek on the Inca Trail, to the rain forest near Puerto Maldonado, and to Lima.
   
   
   
   
   
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