One of five provinces in mythical Argentine Patagonia, Chubut offers up a plethora of maritime and terrestrial fauna and flora.

While Peninsula Valdés is the destination of choice for mating and calving southern right whales, the Blue Route’s extensive coastline is also home to sea lions, elephant seals and orca whales as well as Magellanic penguins – the perfect area to go on a sea-fari.

Bahía Bustamante
Starting life as the world’s only seaweed-harvesting village in the 1950s, a new chapter in Bahía Bustamante’s history began several years ago as shoreside harvesters’ cottages transformed into luxury accommodations.

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