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Galapagos captivates visitors. These islands surprise, challenge, and enchant. For children, the Galapagos sorcery is amplified; encountering a giant tortoise is like coming face-to-face with a Jurassic figment. That’s powerful island alchemy, but much more awaits. Swimming with a penguin is pure [...]
We’ve been taking our daughters to the Galapagos since they were toddlers. As they’ve grown, the possibilities have expanded; they now dive and volunteer on an organic farms. Some families have Hawaii. For us, it’s the Galapagos. Over the years, we’ve helped [...]
A condor is a silhouette before it is a bird. A dark shape against the granite peaks and blank sky, rigidly riding the updraft from the valley floor. Closer, and the white ruff and the bare red head come into focus. The [...]
The asado—the long, wood-fire lamb roast of the Patagonian estancia—is among the great culinary rituals of South America. The lamb is sourced from the estancia’s own flocks, the wood smoke rises into the Patagonian sky, and the meal is a ceremony as [...]
Patagonia is not the obvious honeymoon. It is not Tuscany or a white-sand beach. It is wilder than that, more demanding — and for the right couple, far more rewarding. Our own honeymoon was just this sort: wild and free, away from [...]
Patagonia. The word itself carries a mythic weight. Speaking the name evokes reverence and remembrance. I retrace vivid encounters with pumas, condors, guides, and gauchos. I am transported—lost in the range and scale of terrestrial majesty. How can one be homesick for [...]
What does a high-end or luxury vacation in Patagonia cost? Some questions are more interesting than they first appear. On the surface the cost question invites a spreadsheet. But Patagonia asks you to think outside the box, beyond the page or the [...]
Antarctica is, by international treaty, a continent held in common—belonging to no nation, serving science and the human record. There are no restaurants. No communities. No infrastructure of any kind beyond research stations and the vessels that navigate its waters. For the [...]
A guide to Latin America’s most awe-inspiring destinations — where the scale of the world resets something inside you, and you return home unmistakably changed. Psychologists describe awe as the feeling that arises when we encounter something so vast — in scale, [...]
