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Commonly known as lupin or lupine, is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. Torres del Paine is a national park in Chilean Patagonia.

One of the world’s most beautiful walks can now be done in style

This new luxury guided hike makes one of the world’s most revered adventure challenges much more accessible.

  • Craig Tansley

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This image, comprised of 678 separate images taken by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time, shows the Trifid nebula (top) and Lagoon nebula, both of which are thousands of light years away from Earth.

A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars

The Vera Rubin Observatory has cemented its status as a rising star, revealing unprecedented detail captured by the biggest digital camera ever built.

  • The Economist
The refurbished lodge’s infinity pool with volcano views.

Luxury lodge in one of the harshest environments on Earth reopens

Northern Chile’s Tierra Atacama has just reopened after a year-long, $32 million transformation.

  • Julietta Jameson
Patagonia: land of the giants.

A land of giants so stunning, it looks like it was created by CGI

From mountains and glaciers to its mythologies, Chilean Patagonia is in every way a land of giants.

  • Julie Miller
The hotel is on the tranquil eastern shores of Chile’s largest island off the coast of northern Patagonia.

The charmingly rustic island that Darwin called ‘a miserable hole’

Chiloe in southern Chile may not have impressed Charles Darwin, but its poetically moody terrain forms the cornerstone of its most luxurious lodge.

  • Julie Miller
The views from the pool are a highlight.

A spectacular five-star hotel in one of the wildest places on Earth

There’s good reason this property – now part of Baillie Lodges’ portfolio – is consistently awarded as one of the best in Latin America.

  • Julie Miller
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A night view of the Armazones hill in the Atacama desert.

‘Never observed before’: Wedding cake structure surrounding ultra-hot planet

It is so ferociously hot that the “exoplanet” features iron in the form of a gas in one layer of its atmosphere, while a jet stream moves at 70,000 km/h in another.

  • Will Dunham
A humpback whale surfaces while lunge feeding on menhaden, a small fish, in the Atlantic. Scientists have discovered a new anatomical structure that allows lunge-feeding whales to take in massive amounts of water without choking.

‘Slimy, wet and rough’: What it’s like inside a whale’s mouth

A prominent whale expert explains why the kayaker who wound up inside the mouth of a humpback whale was in no danger of being swallowed.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Whale swallows kayaker

Whale swallows kayaker in Chilean Patagonia

A father has captured on camera the terrifying moment his son was swallowed whole by a humpback whale off Chile.

Valparaiso, Chile.

This ramshackle city has no urban planning but you’ll love it

The unconventional Chilean city Valparaiso has no big sights and no pretensions, but it does have what counts: plenty of character.

  • Brian Johnston

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