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 inside panorama, removed from the tour-boat laden Antarctic Peninsula, is a spot only a few individuals get to expertise. Woodhead wished to alter that, establishing White Desert, an organization that takes shoppers 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 give attention to taking individuals to untouched and hard-to-access locations—solely now, the panorama consists of South American cloud forests, salt flats, dunes, and mountain peaks.

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

“Simply as we’ve got completed in Antarctica, I wished to create a journey that was as adventurous because it was luxurious—and in Dr. Jones, we’ve got discovered the right stability,” Woodhead stated 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 have been simply so surreal!”

Once you’re touring to distant locales, entry is essential, and Dr. Jones’ secret is a Dakota DC3 plane from the Forties, a aircraft identified for its means 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 appear and feel. The glamorous Forties plane seamlessly hyperlinks one distant, hard-to-reach vacation spot to the following, avoiding crowded airports and large cities.

The Dr. Jones Assortment’s Peru-to-Patagonia tour takes place over 12 days and is simply accessible to 12 friends. These fortunate few can be led into a number of the most untouched locations on the earth, together with Peru’s towering Gocta Waterfall, an Amazonian cloud forest with historical 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 provided, every for simply 12 individuals. Charges for the 12 day tour begin at $49,950 per individual. Inquiries could be made at white-desert.com/dr-jones.