The Best Season for a Chile Elopement
Southern Hemisphere seasons, and two regions with opposite calendars: Patagonia opens in the summer, and the Atacama is a year-round desert where the sky is the only variable.
You plan Chile for your summer and, in Patagonia, arrive in its winter.
And the desert has almost no season at all.
Chile's two regions run on opposite calendars, and the season decides which one is even open.
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Torres del Paine opens November through March, the Southern Hemisphere summer: the trails clear, the days long, the temperatures manageable. December to February is the peak, and the Patagonian wind is the constant, so I time the exposed viewpoints for the calm mornings.
Patagonia's summer window
Torres del Paine opens November through March, the Southern Hemisphere summer: the trails clear, the days long, the temperatures manageable. December to February is the peak, and the Patagonian wind is the constant, so I time the exposed viewpoints for the calm mornings.
The year-round desert
The Atacama is a desert with almost no seasonal rain, so it works year-round. The variable is the night sky for stargazing ceremonies, best around the new moon, and the winter altitude cold at the geysers. I plan the desert around the moon phase and the light rather than the calendar.
Pick the region and the window, then hand me the date. As your Elopement Curator I track the season, the wind, and the moon, plan the logistics, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Chile's season depends entirely on which Chile you want.
