Aysén

Aysén is to outdoor enthusiasts what the Sistine Chapel is to art-lovers: a masterpiece worth the journey. This overlooked corner of Northern Patagonia juggles hanging glaciers, brooding fjords, lush rainforests and guanaco-filled steppes. Not only that; it’s the least populated of Chile’s 15 regions, promising ample opportunity for solitude and reflection. Road-trippers and cyclists alike revel in the ever-changing vistas at each twist of the (largely unpaved) Carretera Austral, the sole highway linking the disparate towns and growing parklands of Patagonia’s last frontier.