I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

Oh no!

Amateur Traveler episode episode 631. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

national parks and glaciers and trekking Guanaco's Cape Horn in the streets of Magellan as we go to

pedagonia in Chile.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Chile. I'd like to welcome to the show Tallick Nantes from Travels with Tallic.com and Tallic has come to talk to us

about Chilean Patagonia. Tallic welcome to the show. Thank you I'm thrilled to be

here.

We have done a show relatively recently about Patagonia, but it was the Argentinian side of the Andes, and so when

Tallic pitched me Patagonia, we decided we would focus on this. Now I know that you did this as part of a larger trip to Buenos Aires and Mendoza and Ushwaya or whatever, but we're just going to focus in on the middle bits of this, which is what,

seven to ten days worth of travel?

Eight to ten, yeah.

Eight to ten, excellent.

Why should we talk about Chile and Patagonia first? Why should someone go there?

Because it is absolutely spectacular. The scenery is out of this world. I think that the location of the major national park, which is D'Ores-Eil-Bainen National Park, has one of the best collections of biodiversity that you can imagine.

It's got the pristine lakes,

it's got the forest, thick forests,

it's got the soaring mountains, the wildlife, the customs, the food. It's different from what you can find anywhere else in the world.

And also it's got a lot of the navigations that you can go on ships

through the Strait of Magellons and so forth. Well, and I'm not sure that, and I'm going to say Torres del Paine is the prettiest

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