Awasi Patagonia has featured in a round up of Relais & Chateaux’s top ten winter wonderland hotels.

Featuring cozy interiors and breathtaking views, “these ten exceptional properties offer snug getaways where you can fully experience the essence of a landscape before returning to the reassuring warmth of logs crackling in the fireplace.”

Awasi Patagonia‘s setting deep in Chile’s southern Patagonia is an idyllic spot to enjoy both time outside in the elements, and gaze upon an untouched wilderness from the warmth of a cosy interior.

“Awasi Patagonia is Relais & Châteaux’s southernmost hotel” reads the article for Relais & Chateaux’s TravelBook magazine.

“Tucked amid a breathtaking series of lakes and mountains that are home to three granite peaks, the namesakes of Torres del Paine National, [it is] a haven for majestic local species such as the puma, condor and guanaco”.

Awasi Patagonia’s 14 standalone villas, dotted across a forested hillside, offer privacy and comfort in equal measure. Light and spacious, the large windows offer panoramic views across the landscape. The carbon neutral hotel was designed to complement its natural surroundings, with the villas built on stilts from local lenga wood to minimise their impact on the environment.

Each villa complements the surrounding scenery, with wood, leather and wool finishes providing a rustic finish whilst deep bath tubs, wood-burning stoves and private hot-tubs ensure guests are kept warm even in the face of the Patagonian conditions.

“Private excursions, led by devoted, expert guides, provide an inkling of the park’s vast landscapes” write Relais & Chateaux.

All of the Awasi lodges, in Patagonia, Chile’s Atacama desert, or the Atlantic Rainforest of Iguazu, boast private guides and vehicles assigned to each villa. Guests and guides can design entirely tailor-made itineraries for their stay, enabling them to explore each of these fascinating locations at the pace that suits them; the epitome of personalised travel.

And after a busy day exploring Torres del Paine’s peaks, rivers, glaciers, forests and grasslands, looking for puma and enjoying the great outdoors, the comfort of the lodge, with its roaring fires and Relais & Chateaux restaurant, awaits.

“A steaming cup of mate, a book resting on a woolen coverlet, eyes gazing upon the endless horizon–the time spent in one of the property’s 14 villas encourages contemplation both within and without.”