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Chilean Patagonia an expedition to a world of ice
Holiday Season, a good excuse to know and enjoy 48 glaciers
Standing before the remnants of the Quaternary age and an inside look at the age of the ice which will be an unforgettable experience. In the landscape of Chilean Patagonia are the largest bodies of eternal ice, silent witnesses of the last ice age, more than 20,000 years.
An adventure to find the remnants of the last glaciation.
Patagonia is more than an attraction, more than just a tourist destination: it is magic and contemplation, devotion and a set of feelings that are unleashed on the travellers, who in life may never repeat.
A geography with a wide variety of landscapes, climates and ecosystems, from the pampas of Patagonia, through the fiords mountains, channels and islands that seem to submerge the Andes Mountains in the Pacific Ocean.
Back in the confines of the world, where they raise and extend great mountains of ice that look turquoise, royal blue or sky blue, Patagonia is one of the great fresh water reserves held by the planet.
A trip by glaciers in southern Chile, aboard cruise Skorpios III a Surprise Cruise
The holiday season is the greatest excuse to escape and come to meet the great Southern Ice Fields of Chile, made up of 48 glaciers, which can be known from aboard the cruise ship Skorpios III, cruising through the Kaweskar Explorers on the road.
From there you can see all the appeal of an area that, by far, it remains protected from the rapid development of other regions. Landscapes and places as exotic and primitive are part of the whole trip, and many, who visit this places, will want to come back at once.
A prime and faithful example is the case of Mr. Jorge Aristizabal, an Colombia gentleman that his 91 years, this year toured for the fifth consecutive time the glaciers of Patagonia and the third time travelled through the Kaweskar´s road. "After getting to know many beautiful things in the world this trip is really amazing," Said Jorge, who travels in the company of his wife Amelia Archila.
And there is, as explained by the captain of the cruise ship Constantino
Kochifas Carcamo, “are the remains of the world, where everything
was covered with ice.”
The magic of the adventure
The adventure starts at 247 kilometers from Punta Arenas, the most populated city in the Chilean Patagonia. A journey by bus for two and a half hours, allows travellers appreciate the pampas Chilean flocks, guanacos and a topography that melts in the distance with blue sky, to Puerto Natales.
Every
year, around this time until April, more than 2,500 passengers approaching
this vessel to enter between cays and channels from the Pacific sea.
In Puerto Natales, the capital of the province of La Ultima
Esperanza, is the cruise ship Skorpios III that will carry
tourists to visit the most surprising places of Patagonia. Captain Constantine
and his wife Mimi are personally responsible for receiving the travellers.
The traditional Patagonian BBQ-roast and a cocktail of pisco sours are part of the welcome cruise of six days and five nights of navigation, and the announcement for a trip that will enjoy the best wines and the best seafood on board of the ship. An additional day will be dedicated to learn about the natural wealth of Puerto Natales, that will carry tourists to travel among all the attractions, the National Park Torres del Paine.
The road also leads to the natural monument, the Cave of Milodon,
declared a Natural Monument because in that place were found, 200 years
ago, remains of the extinct prehistoric animal, much like a giant anteater.
Time to set sail
Traveling through the Entrails of the Andes Mountains, the cruise ship, the preplula travels the calvo fiord, where you can watch six glaciers still surrounded by water, allowing an motor boat excursion, to navigate between the icebergs and having a drink of whiskey with millennium ice cubes. Then you will see a giant iceberg, the glacier Pius XI, the largest in the southern hemisphere, with a land area of 1,200 square kilometers, similar to the surface of the city of Santiago de Chile.
While others glaciers suffer from the gradual melting, this imposing iceberg is still in a neoglacial position.
On the last day of the trip, you will travel through the fiord of the mountains, where you can feel and experience a walk through the glacier Bernal, which contrary to Pius XI, this glacier is about to disappear.
The Kaweskar Explorer´s route, named in honor of the native tribe of Indians carrying the same name and living in the only place where the expedition touches land: Puerto Eden, it undertakes the return journey.
The cruise has ended but the magic of the nature is imbued in the skin,
the magestic beauty of the landscape is trapped in the human memory,
suspended in the memory as the millennium icebergs of Patagonia.
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