The operator a guide built
for the work he wanted to do well.

For over seven years, I guided for other operators in Chile — for boutique outfits, for luxury hotels, for adventure companies, including Hotel Tierra Atacama. I learned the country in the way a guide learns it: by walking it, by failing at it, by coming back the next season and walking it differently.

I watched the operators I worked for design itineraries from desks. I watched what worked in the field and what didn’t. The operators I worked for are good. Several are excellent. But over those years, I came to believe something simple: the work of designing and operating a journey through Chile is best done by someone who has been there — someone who has personally walked the cellars, the cordillera trails, the cerros, the coastal coves, the kitchens.

I founded Wonders of Chile to do that work the way I believed it should be done. Not because the existing operators are wrong — because there is room for an operator built differently, from the field outward, with the operational care that seven years of being a guide for other people taught me to take seriously.