Category: Epic Adventures

Its name has roots in the indigenous Quechua language, the Quechua word Anco (white) and Cahuac (sentinel) and when translated means “The Sentinel of Stone”. However, in the Aymara language there are two terms, Kon and Kawa which mean snowed and mount respectively. Therefore, in this language the name Aconcagua would translate as “snow-capped mountain”.  Aconcagua, […]

The Los Alerces National Park is a national park in Chubut Province, Argentina, some 30 miles from Esquel. The park borders Chile and was established in 1937 with the main purpose to protect the forests of the “alerce” (larch) tree, from which the park takes its name. The alerce tree is an endangered confier from the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The weather in Patagonia is highly unpredictable. In fact, it’s not uncommon to experience four seasons in an entire day! A client rang the other day asking about the weather conditions in Patagonia. So we thought it would be a good idea to start a series of blog posts about the overall weather conditions for […]