Christmas in Patagonia _ Argentina

photography and text by MAX FARAGO   Patagonia is where Bruce Chatwin looked for dinosaurs and found Welsh settlers. So last Christmas, my girlfriend Clara and I went and had a look for ourselves. We didn’t find any fossils, but many of the rocks you see on the ground there have been worked on by the native Tehuelche people, and it is not uncommon to find carved knives or arrows that could be thousands of years old lying on the windblown earth. Even though it was summer in Argentina, it was very windy. Yet the view more than made up for it — 180 degrees of earth and 180 degrees of ocean. The ocean is vast. You hardly ever see a passing boat, and sea lions lounge on the beach without a bother in the world. There are lambs by the coast, which feed on samphire plants and sea purslane,…