Easter Island & Patagonia

October/November 2019

Introduction

I traveled in October/November 2019 with Overseas Adventure Travel on their Patagonia, Tierra Del Fuego & the Chilean Fjords trip, including the pre-trip extension to Easter Island.

This trip covers so much geography that it requires three maps to do it justice. The overview map below shows the entire trip which started in Santiago, Chile, went to Easter Island, hereafter to be referred to by its native name of Rapa Nui, to Buenos Aires, Argentina by way of Santiago, continued to Patagonia with significant stops in El Calafate and Los Glaciares National Park in Argentina, Torres del Paine National Park in Chile, and culminated with a four day sea journey on Ventus Australis through the Magellan Strait and Beagle Channel to Cape Horn in Chile which terminated in Ushuaia, Argentina. From Ushuaia we flew back to Buenos Aires and then home.

The Patagonia map shows the route through southern Patagonia in significantly more detail while the Ventus Australis map shows the route through the Chilean Fjords from Punta Arenas to Ushuaia and the places where we took zodiac excursions: Ainsworth Bay, Tucker Islets, Pia Glacier, Cape Horn, and Wulaia Bay.          Continue Reading

Photos

An overview map of our journey is shown below. Photos are divided into five albums - four geographic regions and one documenting the birds I photographed. The bird photos are also contained within the geographic regions where they were captured. The regions are Rapa Nui, Buenos Aires, El Calafate to Puerto Natales, and the Chilean fjords onboard the Ventus Australis plus Ushuaia. Click within a region on the map to see photos from the respective area. From an album page, click any thumbnail photo to browse photos full size and/or view a slideshow of the photos. Return here via the Red arrows on the album page. The photos will scale to the size of your browser window, but for best viewing, make the window as large as possible. The Bird album, includes a list of the 34 species I photographed. (Group photos are courtesy of our trip leader Marcela.)

Overview Map - This trip covered a lot of territory