farm flowers

The park´s mission is to provide a sustainable income to locals, which includes farms for growing vegetables, making honey, and jams for the local cafe and export.

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Parque Pumalín

March 2nd 2007
After resting up in Chaitén and eating amazing seafood like the local marisco stew called "paila marina", David and I headed into Pumalín, the world´s largest a private nature park open to the public. The park was founded Douglas Thompkins (who also started Esprit and North Face) to protect the temperate patagonian rainforest and it´s enormous alerce trees. It is open to the public, who only ... read more

South America » Chile » Aisén » Carretera Austral

Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more

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