Patagonia is a wild and rugged pristine land filled with breathtaking landscapes and eye-catching wildlife. It covers some 400,000 square miles – roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the UK – and has many worlds to discover.
There are very few other places on Earth where you can feel such great isolation and admire vast awe-inspiring natural highlights, as in the Patagonia region.
Among its most important highlights, there's Los Glaciares National Park in El Calafate, a UNESCO World Heritage site representing the largest ice mantle in the world after Antarctica and Greenland, making it the third-largest freshwater reserve on the planet. This is where you can explore and trek over one of the world's most unique and awe-inspiring glaciers: the Perito Moreno Glacier.
Offering some of the most pristine and scenic landscapes in Patagonia, including the breathtaking view from atop Cerro Campanario (one of the 10 most beautiful panoramic views in the world as rated by National Geographic), Bariloche is a nature lover's paradise. Nestled among deep-blue lakes and set against the backdrop of the snow-capped Andes, Bariloche is the perfect place to enjoy some memorable outdoor experiences.
Located at the “Ends of the Earth,” Ushuaia is the southernmost city in the world and an exciting Patagonian destination for the adventurous traveler. It's the ideal location to nourish your spirit of adventure with canoeing expeditions in the Beagle Channel, trekking through uninhabited islands and pristine landscapes, or enjoying thrilling and scenic off-road experiences.
The Peninsula Valdes region in Patagonia is a true marine wildlife lover's paradise, where you can admire the largest continental colony of Magellanic penguins in the world and the largest territorial colony of elephant seals. It's also one of the only places on Earth where you can discover one of the cutest and most acrobatic dolphin species, the Panda Dolphin.
As one of the largest marine wildlife preserves in the world, Peninsula Valdes was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site for containing “very important and significant natural habitats for the conservation of several threatened species of outstanding universal value.” Among those threatened species is one of the stars of this destination, the Southern Right Whale. The area is also home to colonies of sea lions, killer whales (orcas), and other marine and land species.
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