Wayne Bernhardson

About Me

Having spent nearly 30 years living and traveling in Latin America, I write guidebooks to the "Southern Cone" countries--so called because of their shape on the map--of Chile and Argentina. I'm especially interested in the remote, scenic Patagonian region that overlaps the two countries. I am the sole author of Moon Handbooks to Argentina; Chile & Easter Island; Buenos Aires, including excursions in the city's hinterland and coastal Uruguay; and Patagonia, including the Falkland Islands. I have a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and have done research in Peru, Chile, Argentina and the Falklands, where I spent a year as a Fulbright-Hays scholar. My home base is Oakland, California, but I spend five months a year living and traveling in southern South America. Whenever possible, I stay in Buenos Aires, where my Argentine wife and I have a second home, an apartment in the Palermo neighborhood. I speak fluent Spanish, less fluent German, serviceable Portuguese and desperation French.

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