Travel Articles: EcoCamp

My husband, Toby, and I had a wonderful adventure to the End of the World. I've written details about the random weather, the fauna of wildlife including penguins, specific tours like hiking and camping and what to expect when traveling to Patagonia (Hint: expect NOTHING!).

Torres del Paine is comprised of panoramic valleys, massive glaciers, pristine lakes, towering mountains, glacier-fed rivers, and plunging waterfalls. Here is a travel guide of the specific geography visitors will experience.

Beyond the landscapes and the wildlife, travelers will encounter diverse plant life in Patagonia. Learn what flora you can expect to see as you explore the Torres del Paine and Punta Arenas regions.

See the Guanaco, Puma, South Andean Deer (huemul), Andean Condor, and Nandu, Patagonia's big five wildlife sightings.

My husband and I traveled to Patagonia and Antarctica for an epic three-week adventure to celebrate our 20-year anniversary. We visited Ecocamp Patagonia, and then flew from Punta Arenas south to King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. Here we boarded the newly christened Sylvia Earle and cruised around the Antarctic Peninsula and …

I'm going to walk you through the day in the life of a lucky traveler at EcoCamp for a Wildlife Safari program. You wake up early in your dome and an incredibly comfortable bed, usually between 7 and 8 AM depending on when your excursion starts that day. You wander down to the dome that is serving the breakfast options. There are typically …

Jan 23, 2023

Today we fly from Santiago to Puerto Natales where we drove to the Ecocamp office and waited for an hour or two exploring the town until the group transfer from Punta Arenas arrived. Once they did, we set out for a nice lunch at a nearby restaurant before driving two hours the rest of the way to Torres del Paine via the Laguna Amarga …

Jan 24-25, 2023

These days we explore Torres Del Paine National Park. We end up visiting Grey Glacier, which s a three-hour navigation on a lake to visit three tongues of the glacier. It takes about an hour to arrive and the 150 or so passengers on board are all excited and snap many photos when we get there and celebrate with a drink!. We drove …