White Desert Is Branching to South America

When polar explorer Patrick Woodhead traversed Antarctica within the early 2000s, he turned obsessive about the continent’s inside. The untouched interior panorama, removed from the tour-boat laden Antarctic Peninsula, is a spot only a few folks get to expertise. Woodhead needed to alter that, establishing White Desert, an organization that takes purchasers into the not often visited depths of Antarctica.

Now, 20 years later, White Desert is increasing its attain by venturing out of the ice-covered landmass and into South America. Its new operation, dubbed the Dr. Jones Assortment, will nonetheless deal with taking folks to untouched and hard-to-access locations—solely now, the panorama contains South American cloud forests, salt flats, dunes, and mountain peaks.

The primary expeditions happen in September 2025, main company from Peru to Patagonia alongside a route most journey vacationers might solely dream of.

“Simply as we’ve got finished in Antarctica, I needed to create a journey that was as adventurous because it was luxurious—and in Dr. Jones, we’ve got discovered the proper steadiness,” Woodhead mentioned in a press launch shared with Journey + Leisure. “Even on the reconnaissance for the journey, we visited landscapes that I by no means knew existed. They had been simply so surreal!”

If you’re touring to distant locales, entry is vital, and Dr. Jones’ secret is a Dakota DC3 plane from the Nineteen Forties, a aircraft identified for its capacity to land on quick, rugged airstrips. The aircraft has undergone a $10 million conversion to rework it into a contemporary marvel, whereas nonetheless retaining that retro look and feel. The glamorous Nineteen Forties plane seamlessly hyperlinks one distant, hard-to-reach vacation spot to the subsequent, avoiding crowded airports and massive cities. 

The Dr. Jones Assortment’s Peru-to-Patagonia tour takes place over 12 days and is simply out there to 12 company. These fortunate few will probably be led into a few of the most untouched locations on this planet, together with Peru’s towering Gocta Waterfall, an Amazonian cloud forest with historic mummies, the salt flats of the Atacama Desert, and the glacier-studded Torres del Paine area.

Alongside the way in which, vacationers keep in luxurious lodging set in rugged landscapes, like the gathering’s new Dune Camp, which is ready on the foot of the sand dunes close to Peru’s Paracas Nationwide Reserve, a rugged and delightful coastal park. 

Beginning September 2025, there are three Dr. Jones adventures being supplied, every for simply 12 folks. Charges for the 12 day tour begin at $49,950 per individual. Inquiries may be made at white-desert.com/dr-jones.