Chile's national parks offer a wide range of walks, catering to everyone from experienced climbers to enthusiastic day-trippers, writes Andrea Loebbecke.

Charlotte Holmes and partner motorcycle through Chilean Patagonia.

It's the high life with a difference as Anna Leask visits the Atacama Desert in Chile.

Stunning views - and ice for a pisco sour - justify a long journey through an icy wilderness, writes Anna Leask.

Flights over New Zealand could be disrupted for days as ash from the Chilean volcanic eruption...

Rising at dawn is something I know more about in theory than in practice.

Jill Worrall finds some 19th century parallels with New Zealand history in South America's deep south.

This isolated area of South America is home to majestic glaciers, Magellanic penguins, elephant seals and cormorant... as well as some 50,000 beavers, a handful of which were introduced in the 19th century.

Copenhagen in the early 1990s. Bernardo Greene is a patient at a Clinic for Torture Victims. In his native Chile, he'd been tortured for two years by the Pinochet regime.

Jill Worrall embarks on a cruise through Patagonia from Chile's southernmost city.

Japan's biggest quake since records began triggered a shocking 10m tsunami. See how the quake ranks in history.

A 10-metre-high tsunami ploughed into the Japanese coast on Friday, dashing ships into the shore, washing away houses and leaving devastation in its wake.