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 Qingqing Yang, of Colby College Mongolia Study Abroad – Fall 2019 semester We camped for 9 days in front of Battogtokh’s (a park ranger) house on the steppe, an expansive grassland surrounded by mountains. On the interspersed lakes here,…
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 Katherine Rigney, of Carleton College How do you begin to describe two weeks like the two weeks we’ve just had? I suppose as Julie Andrews once said, the beginning is the very best place to start. So we’ll try…