Episode 5 | Simon Reeve’s South America

Duration: 59'00''

Synopsis

Simon travels from Chile's Atacama Desert and follows the Andes mountains to Patagonia before ending up in the most southerly permanently inhabited region on earth, Tierra del Fuego.

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