Author: Lexi Brown

Deriving its name from a flowering bush with dark blue berries and yellow flowers that once eaten, apparently guarantees your return to Patagonia, El Calafate is a quaint town nestled at the base of the cliff on the shore of the vast Lago Argentino. It is surrounded by small farms, which grow vegetables and fruit […]

Grylls parachutes into Patagonia, the southernmost tip of South America, where he first encounters a vast ice field, then forages in a beech forest, wades through a frozen bog and swims through icy water. Next Grylls skins a hare, scales a cliff, tracks a puma, drinks dirty water, and crosses the Perito Moreno glacier, a vast frozen labyrinth of ice caves and […]

Thousands of tiny black dots sprinkle the shoreline as the ferry approaches Isla Magdalena. This is one of the continent’s largest penguin sanctuaries, a population of approximately 120,000 which peaks during its breeding season from the end of December until February. During the colder months however, they migrate up the coast to Brazil in search […]

Name: Matty Age: 37 Occupation: Academic Researcher What operator did you go with or did you organise it yourself? I organised the complete trip to Chile myself. However, I had a guide in Torres del Paine and he took care of all the arrangements in the park, such as places to sleep, food, etc. What […]

Struggling to think what the necessary items are to pack for your great adventure? Want to make sure you’ve covered all eventualities and are prepared for anything and everything that Patagonia has in store for you? Use our checklist below to help make sure you’ve got everything covered. 1. Luggage Do NOT bring a hard, […]

This is a guest post from Chris reviewing Patagonia at the London Film Festival. The Swoop team travelled to London to see the film last friday and thought it was brilliant!  “And so on a crisp autumn afternoon to the Ritzy in Brixton to see Patagonia with an audience of urban adventurers and film aficionados”. […]

We’ve been doing a bit of flight research for our own visit to Patagonia in January – when we’ll be meeting up with a number of our partners and visiting some of the spots we don’t know as well. We thought it would be worth sharing a few lessons and insights, especially given that this […]

Building on our last post about the rain in Patagonia, here’s the low down on the wind speeds! The wind in Patagonia is notorious for being so strong that it could blow you over. This is because Patagonia is an enormous, mostly treeless plateau which gets blasted by the relentless dry polar winds that continually […]