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Published: February 5th 2009
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Torres / We made it!!!
Torres / We made it!!! At the famous place, just b4 it all was covered in clouds and we would have seen nothing... 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 of beauty.
Day1 to Lago gray. Quite tiring. Halfway you suddenly see the green lake and the Gletcher. Amazing moment.
Day 2 From Lago gray to Peine Grande. Beautiful lakes..
Going to set the tent, some nusty wind tore it at once. No tent. What to do? Luckily could rent one. BOYCOT VAUDE (The tent's fabricant, Am not thru with them...).
Torres and lake arrival
Torres and lake arrival Anyway, could have happened the next night, then we ould not even rent one.
Day 3 Becuase of day 2 drama cannot sleep in tent, and where we where planning to camp theres no tent rent. We had to trek another piece to where we were going to go the day after. And so we did.
Horizontal rain
This is something i really wanna write about. This day the wind was real nasty. LOVVVVVVED IT. You could soemtimes hardly stand firm.Because we were waling along and up another Gletcher lake we experienced this amazing horizontal rain. This goes like thisL You here the wind from very far, then u see how the wind crashing at the water elevates the water in drops, formin g a rain from the lake´s face up, the sound of the wind becomes harder and harder, and this rain is being carried towards the hills, where we are trekking and suddenly this rain is coming up at you and splashas at your face and the wind sounds like a hysteric lion...
Combining the 2 days meant that.....
Day 4 As we came here a day earlier, we did not have to trek today. What
Torres Marco
Torres Marco actually came with our legs blessings. Do did a trek of 250 meter :-) to the lake down the hostel and read a book. Great unexpected breake...we appeared to have needed it.
Day 5 From Los Quernos to Chileno. If we had thought the wind in day 3 was it all, we were wrong. This time there was even a special warning on the map, probably as it is at the rib of 2 nountains where to directions collide. I really had to do my best to stand on my four legs. ANyway. Lots of up and down. Kneeeeeeees :-(. Ended in a cute little hostel.
Day 6 In which we went to see the famous horns. After a trek in a forest you arrive to a kind of debris place, where the mountain is actually a pile of stones. Difficult climb, but at hte end what u see is these beautiful towers (were lucky again with the weather) and below it a small lake. All so quite and seems like the place where life has started...
After that a terrible back walk to the last hostel, with half of it only downwards. But we made it! The
Torres Blue lake
Torres Blue lake on way to Lago gray hostel at the end was very comfortable and was great to know we dont have to walk again the day after. I hardly carried my legs and the impact remained some days later.
Day 7 From the hostel to Puerto Natales, getting the stuff and on to Punta Arena, where we did nothing for 2 days in a hostel i loved so much, where u felt like at your friends house....Watched Borat's film and laughed myself to death!
From Punta Arena we took the bus and went on a 13 hour ride to Tiera del Fuego (Fireland), with end destination Ushuaia, the most southern city in the world. Beatiful scenery and cold weather, as it fits a city one hour flight from Antartica...In Ushuaia we went to the National park and did a trek there, noticing the damage of the 6 day trek was not yet totally restored....Next to this not much.
Were prepairing to say goodbye, as Marco was going back to Holland. Which would mean for me ^Laila Rishon Bli Ima^. Went with Marco to airport and was very strange to say goodbye there at the end of the world. The day after was very different.
Swamp
On way to Lago gray Of course you feel kind of empty and a bit emotional. Had still all the Israelis (which comprise at least 50% of the tourists in this region, and i'm almost not exagerating!!!) to pamper me and chat with, but it was clear; I'm all alone now for 3 weeks, and that really feels strange, i tell u.
So had a relax day the day after. Just walked aimlessly in the city and sat in a beautiful cafe with great music, to plan the coming weeks, until my beloved Cunada Tova will join me in San Pedro. The day after 13 hours plus 4 hours to be back in Puerto Natales, and in 4 hours I will be embarking the boat to start what will be either one of the highlights of the trip, or the greatest nightmare...or both :-) Cross fingers.
Some anecdotes:
- Last day in Ushuaia i invented a game: try to count to 10 without spotting Israelis. I lost repeatedly.
- Did u know the argentinians are saving their coins, which means u cannot get change easily. Paying 30 to 29,88 or so, u will be asked if u cannot pay exactly. It apears they do
Mama Goose
Mama Goose it cause they trust the metal value of the coins more than the money system. Traumatic by the 2002 crisis when their money become third of its value in a day...
- Chile and Argentina have BY FAR the best avocado in the world
- A common item in the menues in Chile is a salad consisting of 4 items, with a list of 6 to choose from. If u want 5 or 3, forget it. 4 is 4. Really amuing.
- Just brought the video to a computer and photo shop to make back up DVD's. They didnt have DVD's so they sent me to a shop 10 minutes from there to buy the empty DVD's :-))) (while out of 4 employees, 2 were sitting doing nothing...) I loved this.
Love from Chile, Uri.
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Lenny
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Keep the stories and pics coming!
What a fantastic adventure. It is great to follow your adventures! Enjoy! N'shikot motek!