Patagonia’s Land

A photographic journey through Chilean Patagonia region

We headed out for adventure. Deep into Chilean Patagonia in Torres del Paine National Park we rode horses for hours with gauchos, explored caves where giants used to live, stared in awe at Cleopatra’s Needles, stopped to take in the first sights of guanaco I have only read about in Charles Darwin’s descriptions and enjoyed endless fields of baby sheep. The first thing that struck me about Patagonia was how untouched it is by man. No red lights or bill boards, no gas stations or pavement and no cell service. It is truly a completely unpolluted environment. You stand in the center of Patagonia, so far from anything familiar, so alone, hours from other humans and as far as the eye can see there is infinite beauty, purity and vast wonderment.

“What on earth makes you choose such an outlandish part of the world to go to? What can be the attraction? These, and similar questions and exclamations I heard from the lips of my friends and acquaintances, when I told them of my intended trip to Patagonia, the land of the Giants. What was the attraction in going to an outlandish place so many miles away? The answer to the question was contained in its own words. Precisely because it was an outlandish place and so far away, I chose it. Palled for the moment with civilization and its surroundings, I wanted to escape somewhere where I could be as far removed from them as possible. There I would be able to penetrate into vast wilds, virgin as yet to the foot of man. Scenes of infinite beauty and grandeur might be lying hidden in the silent solitude of the mountains that bound the barren plains of the Pampas, into whose mysterious recesses no one as yet had ever ventured.”

Lady Florence Dixie, 1880

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18 thoughts on “Patagonia’s Land

  1. What an incredible journey it must have been to witness the land and vastness… and how unexpectedly vibrant! Your photographs make me feel like I can almost breathe in the crispness of the air!

    PS – Every photo you post of yourself on here and on Instagram, you look even more beautiful than the last and I am obsessed over this latest photo of you, reminds me of the SATC quote “Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.” <3

  2. Truly amazing. I had the luck to have been there a couple of times as I live in Chile, and is a very beautiful and magical please. Like out of this world. The only thing that caught my attention is the fact that there were “gauchos” guiding you as they are from Argentina…they should’ve been “huasos”…I know that that part of the Patagonia is very close to Argentina but it’s still Chile…

    1. I’m sorry, but you’re wrong, Stef. I was born and raised in Punta Arenas, which is part of the Chilean Patagonia, and they ARE “gauchos” or “Baqueanos”. Both Chilean and Argentinean Patagonia share the same traditions in that way. “Huasos” are chilean, but they have nothing to do with Patagonia; they are from other regions of the country, further north.

    1. They are all digital. I’m about to go to Brazil and I’m thinking about doing it in film this time. Just to give the photos more texture. I think because of the nature of the light in Patagonia the saturation makes these look more film like.

  3. I think this trip must have been a dream come true for you….your picture on the horse is breathtaking!! Wish I visit this place in the future as well…thanks for the inspiration!

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