In Santa Cruz, Patagonia shows off its full scale. Towering glaciers like Perito Moreno drop down into turquoise lakes, while Monte Fitz Roy rises like a jagged crown over the steppe. Guanacos and condors travel across open valleys, and trails carry hikers deep into one of South America's wildest and most photographed landscapes.
Monte León protects Argentina’s first coastal national park—a stark, beautiful sweep of Atlantic shoreline. Cliffs and grasslands fall to beaches covered with penguins and sea lions, while guanacos pick their way across the steppe above. It’s one of the best places to experience the raw meeting point of land, sea, and Patagonian wildlife.
Puerto Deseado sits on a rugged estuary where Patagonia’s least visited coast feels raw and untamed. Two penguin species—rockhoppers with their spiky crests and Magellanics with their burrowed colonies—live along the cliffs and islands just offshore. Venturing into the water reveals another side: Commerson’s dolphins move past like torpedoes, while massive elephant seals lay on the beaches and occasionally share the currents with rogue divers.
San Julián is a quiet coastal town with a bay full of life. Huge dolphin pods swim through its waters, sea lions haul out on nearby rocks, and seabirds circle overhead. Just beyond town, beaches and cliffs open into marine reserves, where history and nature overlap—this was once a stopping point for explorers pushing toward the unknown.
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