Carretera Austral: Conservation SOS
"Do not know the southern road?"- We asked the owner of a stay when, For many years, we made our first trip in Patagonia. (...) Some years later, I spent three weeks to tour almost its entire length.
gerardo bartolome
Gerardo Bartolomé is our Patagonia specialist. He has followed Darwin's steps to the last Confín de Argentina and Chile.
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When progress is traveling with a knife between his teeth
In the name of progress have been committed many atrocities, with the disinherited and Nature as the main victims. Also in Patagonia. On the brink of what legendary route these hills are monitored by the moon? What danger lurks in this remote southern region? El escritor y viajero Gerardo Bartolomé desvelará las claves el próximo domingo en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".
The terrible snow-capped volcano in Patagonia
What mountain is at the bottom of the picture? What is this mountain pass? What there were trafficked during the nineteenth century? The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé has the answers. Next Sunday, another fascinating story about the Patagonia in the hand of a great storyteller.
Where is the lake of floating stones?
Where is this picture and what was causing erosion at the base?
How can the response be linked to the delimitation of the boundary between Argentina and Chile? Rivers change course, disputed sovereignty, patriotic antics. The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé surprise us again, within a week, histories and landscapes of Patagonia.
El Carmen: the fire and blood battle between Brazil and Argentina
El Carmen I came to looking for a sacred tree of the indigenous, "El Algarrobo Gualichu". The chronicles speak of it dating 1833, when the strongman of Argentina, Rosas, carried out a campaign against the Indians. The only vintage image I found the town was one of a French traveler, Alcide D'Orbigny.
Where does this gun pointing?
What protects this ancient canyon city? Who might be the enemies of those who had to defend? A track: this place claims to prop up the oldest building in Patagonia.
Wulaia: Fitz Roy Indians
We were in the ship's stern, with our life jackets and very warm, ready to embark on the boats. "We follow you, we get us a picture of the little Indians. "he said smiling Mrs. Chilean. "What pressure!"I thought. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.
La Caleta colony sacked
[st] What's the story behind this ancient engraving? What is the artist known explorer of this scene?…
Staten Island: the lighthouse at the end of the world
If there is a place in Patagonia, we can still consider unattainable, that is the Staten Island. This is nothing more nor less than the last link in the Andes, which flows into the Atlantic succumbing their impious Wuthering Heights in the Atlantic waves driven by winds Antarctic.
The island of desolation
[st] Wrote a famous traveler: "On the horizon, the clouds, This mountainous and inclement island was outlined ...…
Perito Moreno: Glacier lies
We were in front of the Perito Moreno glacier, undoubtedly the most amazing glacier world. This is a huge tongue of ice two miles wide coming down from the ice fields on the southern Andes, Lago Argentino cutting as it would have dreamed of escaping from Egypt Moses.
What secret behind this old photo?
It is the glacier glacier. Tens of thousands of visitors each year admire. But the imposing mass of ice contains a handful of clichés and lies In what era is this photo? What lies save this famous glacier in Patagonia?
Croeso i Patagonia!
[st] Stories of migrants who cross the Atlantic in mid-nineteenth century in search of new horizons. Languages…
Penguin Island: displaced from the Falklands War
The boat departed from Puerto Deseado and sped over the blue waters of the South Atlantic. “¡Delfines!"Shouted a European tourist and the helmsman turned to port to approach bottlenose dolphins, these black-backed white dolphins living in the Patagonia.
Estancia Cristina: coordinates of loneliness
I went in search of marine fossils that he knew were in the middle of the Andes. They were three hours of sailing on Lake Argentino, one of the world's most incredible. ¿Porqué? Because it looks like a squid, supported with an oval body in the desert steppe and its tentacles into the heart of the Andes glaciers fabulous finish.
Photo quiz from Patagonia
[st] What place is for this beautiful picture of Patagonia? Here's a hint: it is prodigal land…
