TRAVEL AND TOURS

A world - a kingdom owned by penguins and seals, walruses and blue whales, without cities, frontiers, wars, oil or pollution where man is an upstart, a curious guest observing, analyzing, studying and marveling at everything. A kingdom of eternal ice sheets. Summers of bright sunlight. Winters of forbidding shadow.
Here, everyday life is full of the unusual: six-month days, everlasting nights of circling stars that never leave the sky, glaciers that never melt and men that do not pollute or deplete the environment, or build skyscrapers; perhaps because they have so many questions to ask, or because they are looking for clues to the nature of the planet on this frozen remoteness called Antarctica.
Up to a few years ago this part of the world was reserved for scientists and scholars. Now the situation is different, and groups of tourists arrive in Antarctica, the White Continent of monstrous icebergs that store 70% of the world's fresh water in solid layers of ice up to 4 kms deep in places.

A new destination is open for everyone to visit the end (or beginning) of the world. It is inhospitable, distant and cold but .. awesomely beautiful.
Antarctica tempts globetrotters despite its rigorous climate (temperatures drop to minus 50 Celsius in winter): it is no longer so far away, since only 2 and 4 hours of flying time separate it from the Chilean cities of Puerto Williams and Punta Arenas, respectively. And it is also possible to get there by sea.

By land or sea, a trip to the Chilean Antarctic, a 1,250,000 square km frozen paradise, is a wonderful adventure. Voyagers arrive at King George Island, a sort of capital of the South Pole, where they find Villa Las Estrellas and Presidente Frei Base, one of the 72 scientific posts built by 26 nations on the White Continent.
Tours of Chile and Fildes bays (featuring an important penguin rockery), and walks through Villa de Las Estrellas, the main population center in the area, are some of the activities that visitors can do in the enormous Antarctic, whose 14 million square km is the equivalent of half the territory of the U.S.
Visits to the South Pole can only take place in the Antarctic summer (November to March), during the days that have no night. The situation is different in winter, when darkness never ends. A climatic occurrence interfering with travel plans are the unforeseeable blizzards that prevent takeoffs by small planes.
Here, in the cold weather and snowstorms, man finds peace in nature while discovering the last frontier for planetary travellers