Go South — South America

The port on forty-two hills: nineteenth-century funiculars, houses of coloured tin and the densest street art in South America.

Puerto Varas and the perfect cone of the Osorno volcano mirrored in Lago Llanquihue. German architecture, fine rain, permanent green.

The wooden churches the Jesuits built without a single nail, the stilt houses and the island's own mythology.

Ventisquero Colgante — the hanging glacier between two rock walls, its water falling straight into the void for hundreds of metres.

The jagged crest that names the park, and one of the finest stretches of asphalt on the whole of Ruta 7.

The marble caves of Lago General Carrera, polished by waves over millennia. You go in by boat, under blue vaults.

A village with no streets: everything happens on cypress boardwalks, between fjord and forest. The southern end of the Carretera.

Argentina's trekking capital, at the foot of the most photographed peak in the southern hemisphere. The weather changes four times a day.

An ice front five kilometres wide and sixty metres high, breaking in front of you with the sound of cannon. One of the few glaciers still advancing.

The three granite towers, the horn of Paine Grande and the turquoise lakes — the park that defined the image of Patagonia.

Five thousand kilometres along the Andes. The Patagonian stretch means bare steppe, crosswind and a horizon that never comes closer.

The ferry crossing to Tierra del Fuego, on the water where Magellan found the way to the Pacific in 1520. Black-and-white dolphins alongside.

The last pass before Ushuaia, looking over lakes Escondido and Fagnano. From here there is only one road south.

The southernmost city in the world, between the Beagle Channel and snow-capped mountains. Tierra del Fuego National Park and the marker where Ruta 3 ends.

Hands painted on rock nine thousand years ago, in a hidden canyon beside Ruta 40. The oldest art gallery on the continent.

Seventy kilometres of perfect asphalt between Bariloche and San Martín de los Andes, among Andean lakes and forests — the reward before the return to Santiago.