TRAVEL AND TOURS

Three islands: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk and Santa Clara, some small nearby and uninhabitable islands: a fascinatingly attractive archipelago, the most important one in Insular Chile: Juan Fernandez, a place which originated three million years.
Everything began when the Earth started to belch fire, a force that drove the sea back, forcing it to give way to the new formation of rocks.

The first one to appear on the ocean was the Robinson Crusoe Island. Thousands of years after that emerged the other ones. The only witnesses to the event are rocks marked by deep grooves, mountain ranges, spiky peaks and cliffs with vertical grooves showing the fury of their geological birth.

Over the years, seaborne seeds and plants have arrived to the islands, growing and bearing fruit. Life grew, in spite its little contact with the outer world, with new and unique morphological features in both the animal and vegetable species.

During the 17th and 18th centuries the islands were havens for pirates and corsairs. History tells us that in 1704 the English flagships George and Cinque Ports foundered on Masatierra Island, today Robinson Crusoe Island.

One of the sailors of the Cinque Ports was left on the island with only a Bible, a musket, an axe, a pound of gunpowder, some tobacco and a box of clothes; his name was Alejander Selkirk, and he stayed on the island for 4 years and 4 months.

On February 12, 1709, an expedition found the sailor, and when he returned to England, the writer Daniel Defoe turned his story into the most famous book about castaways ever written: Robinson Crusoe. This fantastic island in the Chilean sea is a place where guests will always be the "starting point of a story."