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Home > Destinations > South
America > Chile > Chile
Travel Guides
We are associated with the most professional
and experienced local naturalists and
professional guides in Chile and Argentina.
The Best of Patagonia is led by top naturalists,
research biologists and conservationists.
Ricardo Lagiard's passion for learning
and teaching is reflected through his
skills and enthusiasm as one of our most
highly praised guides in the world. He
has managed a safari company in South
Africa and now operates his own tour company
in the Peninsula Valdes where he guides
and teaches the trade to local residents.
Marcelo Beccaceci is a Veterinary MD who
studied manned wolf ecology in Argentina.
He is a local associate of The Natural
Conservancy.
Our trekking guides in Torres del Paine
include Rodrigo "Trauco" Traub,
our Director of Field Operations and Senior
Guide in Patagonia. Trauco is a free spirit.
His chose a different path from his siblings
who followed the family lineage of lawyers
and professionals living in Santiago.
Like his father who was also a mountain
climber, Trauco has seen the world. After
climbing expeditions throughout Chile,
Argentina, Bolivia, Austria, Ireland and
Brazil, he finally took up residence in
the wilds of Patagonia. During the past
seven years he has let his hair grow and
climbed all the major peaks of Paine on
personal mountaineering expeditions. He
makes a living leading trekking trips
in every corner of the park. Everyone
in the park knows Trauco, or at least
his reputation for knowledge, skill and
charm. He has an opinion on everything,
but his most fervent beliefs are about
bread-he is a baker by trade and brings
his own whole-wheat baked goods direct
from his commercial oven at home because,
he asserts, "I'm not going to serve
spongy white hotel bread to my trekkers."
Andre Labarca is another one of our senior
guides in Paine National Park. He speaks
perfect English since he was raised in
the US. He enthusiastically shares his
interest and knowledge in natural sciences,
especially including geology, flora and
birds. He is a certified SCUBA instructor
having worked in his family's dive business
on the Chilean coast until he moved to
Patagonia where he worked as a naturalist
guide for 3 years at the Explora Lodge.
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