This sweet little village with 500 inhabitants isn't on many tourists' shortlist. But if they would call it little Venice, with its wooden walkways everywhere, it might attract more crowds. Caleta Tortel ('Caleta' means cove) is a small detour from the Carretera Austral, in the southern part between Cochrane and ... View Post Quick guide to Caleta Tortel

This sleepy town along the Carretera Austral will get quite the tourism shock in the next years. If they would only step up their tourism infrastructure a bit as well, it would all happen a bit quicker... But hey, we are in Patagonia, so time has a different meaning here. ... View Post Quick guide to Cochrane

If you want to feel and see the destructive force of nature in this part of the world, go to Chaiten. It is another ugly industrial town. This time for a reason: the volcano of the same name erupted unexpectedly in 2008 (after 9.000 years of silence), and with its ... View Post Quick guide to Chaiten

An unavoidable stop along the Carretera Austral, the nice mid-sized town of Coyhaique has a beautiful pentagonal central square and is situated along the Rio Simpson and next door to another national park. That makes it quite a good option to stay more than one night. That all depends of ... View Post Quick guide to Coyhaique

To maximize confusion, the Chileans decided to not only have Patagonia as the name for the vast region between Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas, but also to name a new national park after it. Don't be surprised if this will be the next big thing after Torres del Paine. There ... View Post Quick guide to Patagonia national park