Blogs from Torres del Paine, Magallanes, Chile, South America - page 37

A great view on wake up from the rrom this morning. After a light breakfast as it´s now getting ridiculous how good the food is, we headed off on a bit of an adventure on horseback! No helmets, no demonstration apart from..... for left pull the reigns left for right pull the reigns right and to stop pull them together. Great..............it´s all flat around by the hotel. No the trek on horse back is through the mountains. After a VERY hairy start it was a great experience being out with a gaucho chileno (chilean cowboy). The back side is a bit sore and JK is talking in a bit of a higher pitch but it was well worth it. (see the pics attached) Bye for now Rhonda & John PS Happy Christmas to everyone!... read more

Been out today around Torres del paine Naytional Park and the views are breathtaking. Got so many photos but it takes so long to upload them so I will be brief. We have just arrived at our hotel and the view is fantastic. There is a golf course outside and lots of fishing. I wonder who would like that? Oh hes and forgot to say that we arrived in the local town and found out they had just won the Chilean Football league so we thought we get involed. Anyway going to go for our Christmas meal shortly so see evryone soon. J & R... read more

We arrived in Puerto Natales, Chile on the 18th realizing a bus leaves to Torres Del Paine (another place tied with 2,000 others as the ¨8th Wonder of the World¨) only 30 minutes later. We made the decision to rush and make the bus, which was a difficult decision knowing whatever was in our packs at the time we boarded would be all we would have access to for the next 4-5 days. So we bought noodles, soups, bread, cheese, beans, beans, and honey at the nearby Chino market and visited three ATMS that did not deposit Chilean Pesos so we had almost no money. We arrived in a photographic heaven a few hours later and took a boat ride through a lake formed by glacial melt to Paine Grande Base, where we began hiking immedieately. ... read more

Me Encanta Patagonia! I sit under a tree to write this story down on paper first. It´s very cold and I´m wearing two pairs of pants, two hats, 2 tops plus a jacket, and not forgeting the gloves. I´m in a beautiful forest and occasionally I can hear the sound of thunder, except it´s not thunder, it´s the sound of crashing ice. Earlier I saw a large chunk break off from the nearby glaciar, half way up the mountain, and scatter into an avelanche of fine powder on the rocks below..... Don´t worry, I´m not close enough to it to get trapped here forever.... I think! I flew into Punta Arenas, the capital of the region, and caught the bus straight to Puerto Natales from where I organised my hiking gear. A day later I took ... read more

Salut du bout du monde. Non je ne suis pas en Chine, mais bien au vrai bout du monde, la ville d’Ushuaïa en Argentine, d'où quittent la plupart des navires en partance pour l'Antarctique. Ushuaïa est réputée être la ville la plus au sud du monde, bien que ce soit plutôt le petit village de Puerto Williams au Chili qui devrait avoir la palme. Mais les Argentins aiment bien se venter, particulièrement en s'appropriant encore les Iles Falkland (Malouines) qu'ils ont perdues décisivement aux mains des Anglais dans les années 1980, et surtout en s'appropriant une partie de l'Antarctique (comme le fait le Chili). Pourtant, l'Antarctique n'appartient à aucun pays. Allez seulement leur faire comprendre ça. La dernière fois que j'ai updaté le blog, je disais qu'on avait réservé des refuges pour aller faire quatre jours ... read more