Destination: Argentina: Patagonia
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Patagonia's Eolo Lodge
Given the hectic lives travelers lead these days, often the primary requirements for a vacation include somewhere easily reachable by a direct flight. Patagonia’s Eolo does not fall into that category, but it’s worth the effort required to arrive.
The seventeen-room lodge sits on the side of a remote mountain, an hour outside the tiny Patagonian town of El Calafate (a three-hour flight south of Buenos Aires). When you land, the dusty plains and jagged peaks that puncture the horizon look like something from another world –not an entirely hospitable one. Eolo, however, is as warm and welcoming as Patagonia is beautifully forlorn. Opened in 2004 and privately owned, the lodge is constructed in a traditional Patagonian style that looks like a utilitarian version of a Tutor manor, with sheet metal siding overlaid with wooden timbers. Built around a central courtyard, all of the rooms face outwards with views of the grandiose landscape and Andean mountains in the distance. Furnishings are simple and comfortable, with a smattering of antiques that blend with well-worn leather sofas and locally woven rugs...
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