National Geographic Traveller - UK (2022-07 & 2022-08)

(Maropa) #1

Lava fields


& LAKE SHORES


WORDS: JAMIE LAFFERTY

AT THE NORTHERN LIMITS OF PATAGONIA, A REALM OF HYPER-ACTIVE VOLCANOES

AND GLASSY LAGOONS OFFERS SOME OF CHILE’S MOST ELEMENTAL EXPERIENCES,

FROM ASH-STREWN HIKES TO WHITE-KNUCKLE WHITEWATER RAFTING. THE LAKE

DISTRICT, AS IT’S KNOWN, MARRIES THIS DRAMA WITH A DEEP TRANQUILLITY,

REVEALED THROUGH MEETINGS WITH THE INDIGENOUS MAPUCHE PEOPLE

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