Don't go to Patagonia, it's a dreary place.
There's nothing in Patagonia. It's not the Sahara but it's as close as you can get to it in Argentina. No, there is nothing in Patagonia.
J.L. Borges (From: P. Theroux, The old Patagonian express)
Austrocedrus chilensis near the forest steppe ecotone of Northern Patagonia (Near Confluencia, Argentina)
Lago Traful (Argentina)
Evergreen (Nothofagus dombeyi) and deciduous (Nothofagus pumilio) Nothofagus forests near lago Traful (Argentina)
Patagonian steppe and Volcan Lanin
Lanin National Park (Argentina)
Araucaria araucana and Nothofagus pumilio forests in the Lanin National Park (Argentina)
Under the volcanoes, beside the glaciers, among the huge lakes, the fragrant, the silent, the tangled Chilean forest ��.
Anyone who has not been in the Chilean forest does not know this planet.
Pablo Neruda
Forest remains after a lava flow in the Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
Native people in meditation beneath the shadow of the Volcan Llaima (Chile)
Bungalows in the National Park Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
Volcan Llaima Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
Araucaria forests Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
Araucaria and Nothofagus pumilio in the Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
The road to the Conguill�o National Park (Chile)
Trail in the rain forest Alerce Andino National Park (Chile)
Old growth near Laguna Fria (1) Alerce Andino National Park (Chile)
Old growth near Laguna Fria (2) Alerce Andino National Park (Chile)
Valdivian rain forest Alerce Andino National Park (Chile)
Volcan Osorno (Chile)
I knew I was nowhere, but the most surprising thing af all was that I was still in the world after all this time, on a dot at the lower part of the map. I thought nowhere is a place.
P. Theroux (The old Patagonian express)
Patagonian forests in the Lake District (Argentina)
Autumn colours near Volcan Tronador (Argentina)
From the Apennines to the Andes
The "Lider maximo" of the field trip
In calling up images of the past, I find that the plains of Patagonia frequently cross before my eyes; yet these plains are pronounced by all wretched and useless. They can be described only by negative characters; without habitations, without water, without trees, without mountains, they support merely a few dwarf plants. Why, then, and the case is not peculiar to myself, have these arid wastes taken so firm a hold on my memory?
C. Darwin (The voyage of the Beagle)