Patagonia has long been one of Chile’s most important attractions, drawing visitors from around the world to marvel at the mountains, lakes and glaciers of Torres del Paine National Park.

Over the years visitors have found increasingly creative ways to navigate this remote and forbidding territory. Begun in 1976, opened to traffic in 1988, and only finally completed in 2003, the Carretera Austral provides access by road through the forests, lakes, rivers and mountains of remote northern Patagonia,







