Patagonia

They say that Patagonia is one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Our specialist, Gerardo Bartolomé, He knows very well and describes everything.

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Santa Cruz River: the wake of Fitz Roy

"A row which is the curve!”, I shouted to my comrades and eagerly returned to take the boat to the middle of the river. "How much we?"I asked one of them. I surprised GPS, separated us only ten minutes by boat from the enigmatic Basalt Glen Fitz Roy.

byGerardo Bartolomé

9 July, 2011

The river of deception

Where in Southern Patagonia was beached the boat of an old engraving? What intrepid sailor took advantage of this estuary to repair your boat and, passing, explore the river in search of an Andean lake that never saw? The travel writer Gerardo Bartolome made the same route. He did manage to see the lake. I will in a week in VaP..

byGerardo Bartolomé

3 July, 2011

The chapel stained with blood

What reminds this old Spanish settlement lonely chapel? These walls evoke a meeting, or collision, between the old and new worlds in a remote colonial settlement. Now become prime tourist destination, el lugar guarda una historia de supervivencia que nos contará el próximo fin de semana el escritor y colaborador de VaP Gerardo Bartolomé en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

19 June, 2011

Videoblog

Milodon Cave: come and see

In the caves of southern Chile, near Puerto Natales, in the Pleistocene was the habitat of a large mammal, the mylodon. La historia del descubrimiento de los últimos restos de este herbívoro la cuenta en VaP el escritor y viajero Gerardo Bartolomé en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byRicardo Coarasa

11 June, 2011

On the trail of the last mylodon

The naturalist and his assistant kept digging, looking to find what they believed. The cave was large and had spent several days digging in various places. When they were about to give up the shovel dug up a hide with fur intact. "It's the skin of a milodon!”, exclaimed the enthusiastic naturalist to examine.

byGerardo Bartolomé

11 June, 2011

The enigma of extinct species

An animal species extinct for thousands of years. A surprising finding in the cave of the picture and a question. "They survived some copies of these large mammals until today? What do you call that cave and what a wonderful discovery was made in it? What does it say about Patagonia ago 10.000 years? The answers have a contributing writer Gerardo Bartolomé VOD. Within a week, en su blog "Desde la Patagonia".

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 June, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

28 May, 2011

Videoblog

Hidroaysén Project: Threat or progress?

«The history of these regions fills me with pessimism about the future of the habitat that we see as we travel…

byRicardo Coarasa

28 May, 2011

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".

byGerardo Bartolomé

22 May, 2011

Paso de los Pehuenes: the route of the raids

The truck moved slowly along the way but every time there was more snow. Already reached mid wheel. My wife, with GPS, I said that there was still climbing 300 meters to reach the top step (port, as they say in Spain). "Three hundred meters is a lot," I thought.

byGerardo Bartolomé

15 May, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

8 May, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

24 April, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

17 April, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

10 April, 2011

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.

byRicardo Coarasa

3 April, 2011

La Caleta colony sacked

[st] What's the story behind this ancient engraving? What is the artist known explorer of this scene?…

byRicardo Coarasa

27 March, 2011

Staten Island

Staten Island

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

20 March, 2011

The island of desolation

[st] Wrote a famous traveler: "On the horizon, the clouds, This mountainous and inclement island was outlined ...…

byGerardo Bartolomé

13 March, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

6 March, 2011

Videoblog

The cracking of the Perito Moreno

In honor of that surprising and interesting blog that our partner Gerardo Bartolomé is writing "from Patagonia",…

byJavier Brandoli

28 February, 2011

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?

byGerardo Bartolomé

26 February, 2011

Croeso i Patagonia!

[st] Stories of migrants who cross the Atlantic in mid-nineteenth century in search of new horizons. Languages…

byGerardo Bartolomé

13 February, 2011

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.

byGerardo Bartolomé

5 February, 2011

Where do you hide the rockhopper penguin?

[st] In this windswept island walk around the beautiful Patagonian Rockhopper penguins, those…

byGerardo Bartolomé

30 January, 2011

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