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Tasting Chile: Dolphin Watching, Fly Fishing, and a Gourmet Feast

Each night over cocktails, the guide team had a look in their “toy box” and made a few suggestions of what we could “play with” for the following day. Harry and Tom opted to fly fish today, so flew out by chopper, with an inflatable raft and the rest of us decided the try the “RIB” boat (rigid inflatable boat)
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Tasting Chile: Awaken your spirit. Be a Nomad. Be Inspired.

Nomads of the Seas. Awaken your spirit. Be a Nomad. Be Inspired. These were our marching orders at the conclusion of our orientation speech by owner, Andres Ergas, prior to embarking on his M/N Atmosphere (aka Nomads of the Sea). I was especially pleased that he would be joining our expedition and those words were inspiring indeed. It had been
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Tasting Chile: River Peace Offerings

The exhilaration of flying in the front seat of a Bell Jet Ranger 407 is hard to describe—especially one that has comfortable leather seats, a handsome pilot, Arturo, and Elvis Presley (“I want you, I need you, I love you”) piped through the ear phones. We soared in our glass cocoon over tree tops, mountain summits, and the odd glacial
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