Blogs from Torres del Paine, Magallanes, Chile, South America - page 23

We have stayed at this nice hostel in Ushuaia now for 3 nights and it is time to move on, towards the Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. To do that we must first exit Argentina into Chile, then exit Chile into Argentina, then exit Argentina again back into Chile. This takes most of a day, waiting at border crossings, carrying all of our stuff into the crossing office to be xrayed, throwing away any open cheese, apples, nuts, fresh vegetables or meats, and so forth. This means that some of our meals are made only with canned food, since there are no stores between our crossing and our next campsite. This evening we camp at a ghost town near the beached wreck of the Barca Ambassador, on the Chilean coast. We aren’t sure of ... read more

Legs still soar, +/- 46 hours in different busses, 3 cities and one BEAUTIFUL national park in Chile, then a 5 days in Argentina, in Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world, and back to Chile, just on the verge of taking the 4 day boat ride in the Fiords and the ocean, I am very much behind...But, I´ll try to reconstract the story.... Ingredients: Soar leggs, muscles, knee aches but still works, 1000 times nature, some really cute hostels, geese, ibis, wind like i never experienced, reading Darwin's trip in the Beagle Channel and other places we visited, Tent Kaput!!, some nice hostels, Beagle, Lots of dead trees, Well the highlight was definitely the 6 days trek (actually turned 5 unwantedly...). First day and last were the most beautiful, but in between also lots ... read more

Just got back to Puerto Natales after seven days in Torres del Paine Parque Nacional. Both of us really enjoyed this part of the trip, we had beautiful scenery, got to hike an average of 20 km a day, and met lots of fun people. We started from Lago Amargo, hiked into Camp Las Torres and completed El Circuito going counter-clockwise. We planned for ten days (mostly just in case we had bad weather at John Gardner Pass), but only needed six. The scenery was incredibly varied, although I wish we had seen more wildlife (we did see guanacos and condors on the bus drive into the park). The trails were mostly easy and well-marked. We only really had bad weather going up to the pass (I think it was a 3000 foot elevation gain) and ... read more

from where i left off.... i need to catch up before i leave again for my next place on interest and get further behind.... we left el calafate a little later than expected due to the long night the night before but we ended up leaving town around noon and driving about 10 hours by car in Chile to a town called puerto natales just outside parque nacional torres del paine.. found a place to stay and called it a night.. it wasnt a very interesting day but at least we got to stop when we wanted as opposed to a bus. it was funny though because we had bought a bunch of food that we planned on eating for lunch dinner and maybe breakfast.. only to find out we couldnt bring any of it into ... read more

Die fuenf stuendige Fahrt nach Puerto Natales war sehr eintoenig. Die Pampa sieht effektiv immer mehr oder weniger gleich aus :) Laut Fuehrer koennen Unterkuenfte im Nationalpark am einfachsten ausserhalb des Parks reserviert werden (1 - 2 Monate im vorraus). Der Park ist in dieser Zeit sehr gut gebucht. Mit Glueck fanden wir fuer die ersten zwei Tage eine Unterkunft in einer Hosteria fuer 220$ die Nacht. (war das noch einzige freie, ausser Hotels die bis zu 1500$ pro Nacht verlangen) Die darauffolgenden drei Tage konnten wir mit 80$ fuer zwei Betten etwas guenstigeres (in einem Refugio) finden. Der Weg zum Park fuehrte ueber abenteuerliche Natur-Strassen. Erst am naechsten Morgen bemerkten wir, dass ein Pneu wegen eines Nagels platt war. Zum einen Glueck gehabt, zum anderen wissen wir jetzt auch warum unser Mietwagen mit zwei Ersatzraeder ... read more