Easter & other islands

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Easter Island, Chiloe Island and the Falkland Islands

Three quite different islands, all imbued with history and teeming with wildlife, all hard to reach. Easter Island, with its incredible testament to a long-vanished civilization, matches the Falklands for remoteness, but Chiloe Island has a rich folklore with many mythological animals and spirits.

Falkland Islands Wildlife 7 nights from $3427 pp	request
For adventurous travelers who love to discover virgin country full of wildlife, the Falkland Islands are still unsploilt and hardly visited thanks to their extreme remoteness.more details

Magic Easter Island 3 nights from $500 pp	request
Explore Easter Island, over 2,000 miles from the nearest centre of population and one of the most isolated places on Earth. It is a stunningly attractive open air museum with more the 20,000 archaeological ruins.more details

Chiloe Churches and Penguins 2 nights from $887 pp	request
An introduction to the archipelago of Chiloe with its old churches, penguin colonies, small hamlets and colourful craft markets, returning to Puerto Montt or Puerto Varas.more details

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did you know...

Around 1650 two Spanish sailors …stumbled out of the forests opposite the island of Chiloe….They reported the existence of a city of silver-roofed palaces, whose inhabitants were white-skinned, spoke Spanish, and were descendents of Pedro de Sarmiento's colony on the Magellan Strait. Their story revived interest in Trapalandia, The Enchanted City of the Caesars, another El Dorado hidden in the Southern Andes. Several expeditions set out to find the city. One report said the doors were studded with jewels, the ploughshares of silver, and the furniture of the humblest dwelling of silver and gold. There was no sickness; old people died as if sleep had come upon them. The men wore tricorn hats, blue coats and yellow capes....(Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia)

Testimonials: Laura, We finally got back from our long trip, of which our Patagonia tour was just the beginning. The self-drive part to Torres del Paine certainly was one of the main highlights and your arrangements served us very well. The Hertz people could not have been nicer; we got a brand new Montero (which we returned totally dirty inside and out after driving through mud for two days) and both checkout and return were easy. The hotels in Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales were fine. OK,........ Ulrich M, USA

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