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by Bethany Llewellyn, of University of Puget Sound Patagonia Student Program – Fall 2019 Semester “El idioma no es importante. Solo los ñandúes son importantes,” said Rodi. “Language isn’t important, only the ñandú are important.” He was smiling, clearly self-aware of the cheesiness of the…
by Cal Waichler, of Colby College It takes us the better part of a day to wind north from our base camp in Cochrane, then east through the Chacabuco Valley, to reach the stark landscape on the other side of…
by Christof Zweifel, of Carleton College We spent the past week camping in Valle Chacabuco; surveying the guanaco population, critiquing neoliberalism, and learning about the steppe ecosystem. After eons as a home to the Aonikenk, then a few decades of…
by Sophia Gillies, of University of Vermont Team Coigüe’s, Week 1 After a long day of travel, we all filed off of the plane eyeing each other, the other fellow gringos we would be sharing the semester of adventures with….
by Stacy Polykova, of University of Maryland As I write this final blog post, the Austral Fall approaches and soon we will escape the cold of incoming winter and head back to the spring of the Northern Hemisphere. Our time…