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Family-owned Chilean brand Explora was founded to share the natural beauty, food, wine and culture of the country with outsiders, and has since expanded to several neighboring countries. Explora pioneered and perfected this concept with its flagship lodge in Chile’s famed Torres del Paine National Park, the most popular destination in Patagonia, but they now have notable competition, and it is travelers who benefit as this fairly similar model spreads across the best lodge operators.
The model starts with a relatively small lodge built to very green standards with eco-friendliness paramount. The lodge is then staffed by local guides expert in the region and its outdoor pursuits. At the best lodges, guides are full-time staff and little or nothing is sub-contracted out. Explora even breeds its own horses so it can offer in-house riding programs at its properties while most others sub out things like stables.
Whereas on most cycling or hiking vacations you change hotels and move around a region, these lodges are destinations unto themselves and typically, you would visit a lodge for 5-7 days, enjoying different activities every day. All meals and in most cases wine and/or other adult beverages are included.
But in some cases, multiple locations can be combined into a single vacation, especially in Chile, where all visitors connect through Santiago and could then fly to one of Explora’s three lodges in Patagonia, its Easter Island outpost or its fabulous Atacama Desert property. They are also growing a program they call
, combining locations with the active nomadic journey between them, such as lodges in Bolivia’s Uyuni and Chile’s Atacama. Tierra and Awasi also have lodges in both Patagonia and the Atacama Desert that can be combined.But in most cases any one of these destinations is wonderful for its own vacation. Among these top operators, Explora has the most locations while
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