Blogs from Puerto Natales, Magallanes, Chile, South America - page 9

Nach em ne relativ laenge Flug vo Quito ueber Lima, ueber Santiago, si mir nach oepe 15 Stund in Puerto Montt (Chile) ahcho. Das isch es chliises Hafestaedli, wo nid wahnsinnig spannend isch, aber der Usgangsort fuer uesi Fahrt mit der Faehre isch gsi. Woeu mir ei Tag Resaerve ihplanet hei gha, hei mir no ae chlini Tagestour buechet und si mit em ne chline Bus duer die sehr schoeni See und Vulkanlandschaft gfahre. Am Tag wo mir uf d'Faehre si, hei mir no der Fischmarkt in Puerto Montt ahglueget. Dert hets so vieu Muschle und Lachs gaeh, dass isch fasch nid zum gloube...und natuerlech zu Priise wo mir ir Schwiiz nume dervo choei troeime. Und denn isch ds Abentuer uf der Faehre aendlech los gange. Mir hei d'Luxusvariante gha mit ere 4er Kabine fuer ues ... read more

Hi kids. Just a quick chapter about the boat trip thru the channels. Well, +/- 1500km in 4 nights and three days. If u look at the map of Chile u see on the left, along the lower third of the country, between the pacific ocean and the land, hundreds of islands. Thats where we sailed. The best moments were actually on the first day, when i woke up around 5;30 and during an hour and a half saw one of the most beautiful sunrises i ever saw. We were selling along many islands and the colours were really suffocating. The pics and the videos could not catch the serenety and the beauty, i´m afraid. After that it was actually three days of very slowly passing by hundreds or thousends of these islands. The boat was ... read more

Navimag - Die Geschichte einer Ueberfahrt von Puerto Montt nach Puerto Natales Die Route - Heute ist Montag, der 19.01.2009. Es ist 14.30 Uhr und alle Vorbereitungen fuer das Boarding auf der Faehre Evangelistas abgeschlossen. Fuer die kommenden drei Naechte / vier Tage sollte dies mein zu Hause sein. Gegen 16 Uhr legt das Schiff ab und macht sich auf seinen langen Weg nach Sueden. Als Abschiedsgruss ertoent mehrfach das Signalhorn. Bevor wir am kommenden Morgen den Moraleda-Kanal erreichen geht es zunaechst durch den Ancud- und Corcovado-Golf. Von hier aus dann ueber die Kanaele Chacabuco und Pulluche hinaus auf die offene See. Letzterer Kanal sollte zudem die ersten Hoehepunkte der Tour bereithalten - neben diversen einheimischen Vogelarten sichten wir Robben und vereinzelt Wale. Gegen 16 Uhr erreichen wir die Bucht Ana Pink. Die naechsten zwoelf Stunden ... read more

21st January The morning was calm, the first calm morning we had had. This was good as we had our longest day to do - around 8 hours (20km). The path had quite a bit of height gain & a river crossing reputed in the book to be 'a daunting process after heavy rain or warm weather causing the glaciers to melt at a rapid rate'. We got a fairly early start to the day but 15 minutes out of the Refugio I slid on a rock & hit my foot hard straight onto another rock with my big toe. It was badly bruised - maybe broken, maybe not it's hard to tell but either way it was hurting allot so it was 2 Ibroprofen and a fair bit of grinning & bearing for a while. ... read more

19th January Due to the way the trek was worked out in order to see all the highlights of the park doing the 'W' trek meant doing some retracing. Camp two was to be spent at Paine Grande where the catamaran had landed the previous day so the walk retraced the steps of the previous day. Before setting off we headed towards the Glacier Gray for a closer look but the rain was intense coming towards us. We got within about 1/4 mile away, took some quick photographs & headed back. The walk back was pleasant passing back under the hanging glaciers of the Paine Grande as we had the day before the weather improved during the day to bring bright sunny spells in the afternoon. On arrival at Refugio Paine Grande we found a reasonably ... read more