Patagonia
 It
is said that Patagonia does not need an introduction.
This wild and isolated terrain has figured prominently
in the exotic fantasies of many adventurers throughout
the ages. It’s the last corner of the famous
Andes Mountain Range and, for some explorers, it was
the end of the world. Like all the endings, it evokes
an infinite mystery the strong winds hide in their
hands. Because of its proximity to the Antarctica,
for ages Patagonia was totally covered and uncovered
with heavy rivers of ice, when the man in this area
was only a dream. Ice and time shaped on it unbelievable,
astonishing granite colossus of 3,000 m that nowadays
dominate wild and barren plains of sand, dark green
sub-Antarctic forests, thousand and thousand square
miles of the same surviving Pleistocene’s ice,
fossil-rich coastal cliffs – explored by Darwin
and several of the world’s most noteworthy glaciers
experts like Perito Moreno.
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