Argentina's most accessible great glacier is a short shuttle ride from the car park, but fees, trek age limits and timing decide how good your day is. Here is what it costs now and how to plan it.
No more than 100 passengers may stand ashore at once anywhere in Antarctica. How that rule shapes every expedition cruise — choosing ship size, crossing the Drake or flying it, and picking your month.
For roughly four months a year a film of rain turns the world's largest salt flat into a mirror. How to time the wet and dry seasons, choose between a day trip and the three-day 4x4 loop, and cope with 3,656 metres of altitude.
Chile's flagship Patagonian park runs on strict rules: no flames anywhere, tickets bought online in advance, and refugios reserved months ahead. Here is how to plan it properly.
Granite towers, calving glaciers and a wind that never stops — a walker's guide to the W and O circuits of Torres del Paine and the Fitz Roy trails of El Chaltén.