In southern Chile, a natural reserve of 10 000 hectares are poised to consolidate the next trend in travel, tourism and conservation mix. Therefore, supporting scientists who study and care of their biodiversity. And one, of course, may be part of that process.

Photography by Seo2 | Por Puro Amor Al Rap

Exit from Quellón brings more than eight hours. We must reach Añihue, a little known nature reserve located right in the mouth of the River Palena, with 10 thousand hectares practically full of fjords, bays, forests, mountains, birds, seals, dolphins, whales. But first you have to reach Raul Marin Balmaceda, a tiny town that is rarely seen in the map and that (says the story) is named after a Chilean senator who died of a heart attack during a session in Congress, the fifties. (más…)

The temperate valleys around Santiago de Chile host some of the best vineyards in the world, is beginning to discover the knowledge of the centuries, American wine culture.

Francisco Aguirre was one of the most bloodthirsty conquerors who gave imperial Spain. It beat against the Indians in Cochabamba (Peru) with Gonzalo Pizarro and later fought without mercy to the inhabitants of the valleys of Copiapo and Coquimbo (Chile), spreading destruction over there where their troops passed. Excessive and passionate man, Aguirre conceived, and fifty-five children died in the middle of a dispute with the Inquisition for his repeated expression of scandalous and heretical propositions. However, among the few ideas that Aguirre did not involve violence and smell of gunpowder shines a special light to the introduction of vines in Chile, an initiative that even today continues to provide excellent results. (más…)