Tag Archives: adventure

Life after the W Circuit

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Luke Errington

A few of the people who contact Swoop have visited Patagonia before and are looking to go back and explore it further. After all, a region that spans 1,000 miles North to South and 1 million square kilometres, with landscapes … Continue reading →

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Matty’s trip to the Atacama Desert – ‘Arid, beauty, unearthly’

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Charlotte Brown

First Name: Matty Age: 37 Occupation: Academic researcher Which operator did you go with or did you organise it yourself?  I organized my trip from Santiago to San Pedro de Atacama myself. If you had a local guide, what was … Continue reading →

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Isla de Chiloé, Chile

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Lexi Brown

When Darwin visited Chiloé in 1835, he described the island as “the border of Christianity”, both in the geographical and spiritual sense. The brilliant researcher was marveled by the co-habitation achieved between Mapuche Indians and the Spanish conquerors over three … Continue reading →

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Bear Grylls in Patagonia

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Lexi Brown

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 … Continue reading →

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