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Choosing the right hotel in Patagonia can be a minefield—service can be poor, prices exorbitant, and because getting around is a real challenge, you might have to sacrifice amenities for location (view our Fact Sheet for overall orientation). That said, choose wisely and you'll not only find many fine estancias and country lodges in rugged and beautiful locales, but you'll also get an unparalleled view of Patagonian culture, authentic country cuisine, and a chance to cast for huge fish or to ride on horseback through the mythical steppe. Urban centers, too, now offer a broadening selection of new and newly refurbished hotels, ranging from boutique properties to revamped classics.
Many Patagonian lodges fall within the hard-to-get-to-but-utterly-worth-it category, including this one, set on the border of a national park named for the...more
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Much of Chile's southern coast looks like somebody crumbled up crackers and dropped them into the sea. Bahía Mala is situated among that fragmented...more
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In 1917, when Italian pioneer Primo Capraro erected a wooden lodge in the wilderness of north-shore Lake Nahuel Huapi, the only guests brave enough to sail from...more
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There's nothing particularly Patagonian about El Casco Art Hotel, despite its privileged lakefront location near tourist hub Bariloche. This place sits beneath...more
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Set atop the same fossil-striped cliffs that fascinated Charles Darwin 170 years ago, El Pedral Lodge boasts its own stretch of coastline, complete with an...more
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It's difficult to conceive of a property more defined by desolation than Eolo, a rustic, 12,300-acre lodge in the windswept La Anita valley, 18 miles west of El...more
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A dusty Patagonian steppe town fronting Lake Argentina, El Calafate survives entirely on visitors to the Perito Moreno glacier, 50 miles to the west. Observing...more
see the Argentine Patagonia guideThe village of El Chaltén is one of Argentina's hiking capitals, located at the northern end of Los Glaciares National Park and at the base of Patagonia's...more
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El Calafate is a dusty Patagonian steppe town on Lake Argentina, close to the three-mile-wide Perito Moreno glacier, one of 13 that flow into Argentina's...more
see the Argentine Patagonia guideAccommodation within Torres del Paine national park is limited to two extremes: the big-price Explora resort or a tent. To find shelter from Patagonia's fickle...more
see the Chilean Patagonia guide
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