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Punta Arenas Slideshow
Top Hotels in Punta Arenas
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Hotel Cabo De Hornos Punta Arenas
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Finis Terrae Hotel Punta Arenas
38 reviews
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Hotel Los Navegantes Punta Arenas
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Sociedad De Turismo Rio Serrano Punta Arenas
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Isla Rey Jorge Punta Arenas
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Jose Nogueira Punta Arenas
19 reviews
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Plaza Punta Arenas
36 reviews
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Tierra Del Fuego Punta Arenas
10 reviews
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Hosteria Mirador Del Payne Punta Arenas
1 review
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Hostal Art Nouveau Punta Arenas
12 reviews
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Patagonia Pionera Hotel Punta Arenas
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Hostal del Estrecho Punta Arenas
13 reviews
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Hostal Oro Fueguino Punta Arenas
11 reviews
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Hosteria Lago del Toro Punta Arenas
15 reviews
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Hotel Carpa Manzano Punta Arenas
47 reviews
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Hotel Restaurant Mercurio Punta Arenas
4 reviews
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Lago Tyndall Hosteria Punta Arenas
34 reviews
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Chalet Chapital Hotel Punta Arenas
27 reviews
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Hostal Ainil Punta Arenas
10 reviews
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Diego de Almagro Punta Arenas
34 reviews
Punta Arenas
Travel Blogs from Punta Arenas, Chile
We leave Tierra del Fuego
This is a top pick! Hello folks, Philsy and Starky calling from Punta Arenas at the southern tip of the South American mainland, having left Tierra del Fuego in our wake. The journey so far from Ushuaia has been hard, but we're bearing up. It wasn't the best start as we set ...
In Patagonia
This is a top pick! To get to Punta Arenas we take a Lan Chile flight that lands in Puerto Montt half way to drop off and pick up passengers. The flight takes about three hours in total, and on the second leg we have a sense of deja vu as we are fed the same in-flight meal ...
Punta Arenas
This is a top pick! ... (both are stupidly expensive), and so Antarctica will have to wait for another time... From Ushuaia we caught a bus up to Punta Arenas in Chile (our last country in South America!) but on hindsight we should have gone straight up to Puerto Natales, as ...
Hanging out in Puerto Natales & Punta Arenas
This is a top pick! ... del Paine National Park. Here are some photos to give you a flavour of the place. We then moved on to Punta Arenas (3hrs by bus), the capital of Chilean Patagonia, and spent a few more days updating this blog and wandering ...
avalanches noodles bristolians and nice shoes
This is a top pick! ... park. If your ever in the area, its worth a visit. On Tuesday we caught a bus to the famous southern city of Punta Arenas. This is the furthest south we will go in South America. Since entering Chile three weeks ago I have calculated we´ve ...
Good-Bye Desert, Hello End of the World
This is a top pick! ... over the first sheep to the town all the way from New Zealand. Sheep herding quickly became the foundation for the Punta Arenas economy and a recognizable symbol for the entire Patagonia region. Matter of fact, I later learned that the typical meal of ...
Until The End Of The World
This is a top pick! Thursday 24th March 2005 Long long bus journey today - El Calafate to Puerto Natales, followed by Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas, which pretty much took up most of the day. Go with a tout, to yet another slightly downmarket hostel...but its cheap and ...
El Poocho and the Sunny Day
This is a top pick! ... you can hold onto to keep from being blown down some days." She explained the history of the area, the industry, the recreation. Punta Arenas is capital of the Magallanes region, on the Strait of Magellan at latitude 54 south. It has a population of ...
And then we were two
This is a top pick! Up early for breakfast before getting the bus onto Punta Arenas. I sleep again as the scenery is pretty desolate until we approach the sea and then the airport here. All get off and wait for Tony´s plane back to Santiago before he heads back to ...
Most southerly point on my trip...
This is a top pick! ... to Antarctica. Like my most northerly point (Beijing), the town is covered in mist. It is wet and cold... but not too cold. Punta Arenas has a pleasant feel to it but I´m still trying to figure out the Chileans... they are hard to get to know and ...
Wild and Woolly
This is a top pick! ... quiet workshop, rather than on an isolated Andean back road with a raging wind to 'help' things along! Between Puerto Natales and Punta Arenas we were very happy to be back on a good paved road - a very welcome change from the rough gravel roads of ...
Mah-za-yan-ic Shortcut and My Ed-u-kay-ted Brain
This is a top pick! ... morning (check), and entry into the Strait of Magellan about 5:30 in the evening. We should wake up on Wednesday in Punta Arenas, he advised. What do you know about the Strait of Magellan? You probably remember from your social studies and geography ...
Brrrrrrrr! This is supposed to be the summer!
This is a top pick! ... - well up to today at least. This morning it was time for another tour conveniently combined with a bus trip to Punta Arenas, the town in Southern Chile where I am right now. On the way down we stopped off at the Penguin Colony in Seno Otway. Here they ...
Patagonia: the Home of the Gods
This is a top pick! ... make Patagonia a remote and wild region that is fascinating, awe-inspiring and often bewildering. Frits and I flew into Punta Arenas from Santiago (a 3.5 hour flight) on Wednesday. The flight down gave us an unforgettable impression of Chile's ...
Is it Chile in here?
This is a top pick! We completed our transit of the Chilean fjords and Magellan straits at Puenta Arenas Chile after sailing around 280 nautical miles. We arrived at the anchor point and dropped anchor around 7 am. We had to take tenders into port today so to avoid the ...
On the Magellan Strait!
This is a top pick! The bus journey down to Punta Arenas seriously hit 4 seasons in one day (there's a Crowded House song there somewhere!!!)...started off with snow and lots of snow covered moors, to sleet, rain and finally beautiful sunshine as we headed further South! ...
145000 penguins and still Amy aint happy!!
This is a top pick! ... lover would not be happy wandering among 140 000 penguins....up close and personal? Anyway back to the beginning! We arrived in Punta Arenas early afternoon, after having to give in and take a flight. The 3 day bus journey just somehow didnt seem ...
March of the Penguins...
Only a short one this time as we spent less than 24 hours in Punta Arenas. We arrived after a 5 hour bus ride from Puerto Natales (pretty uneventful). Then we checked into our lovely hotel (it was a South American 5-star, different from a Western hotel ...
Pingüinos de Otway
... . La experiencia fue buena, ahora a saber si eran realmente carne de estos animales... El día 27, se dedicó a visitar tranquilamente Punta Arenas: palacio de Menéndez Braun (una de las 2 familias que tenían el monopól comercial de la ciudad), ...
Agreeable Arenas
This is a top pick! Punta Arenas is the southernmost city on earth, which just by having that title makes you want to visit it. Sitting on the straits of Magellan it is very colorful and quiet, but most of all a fascinating place which fell from glory once the Panama canal ...
Day 94 –A formal affair
... or the thin layer of avocado on the outside. It was delicious. Soon after, we finished our packing and went to bed, trying to think of all our favourite memories of Chile. It’s been a wonderful country. Hope all is well! Love, Gary and ...
Going on empty
... hammed up) the parts of Despair, Anguish, Confusion, Anxiety and Dumb-Ass Stupid (Indifference was standing downstage right). We'd arrived in Punta Arenas in the early hours of the morning and stayed in a lovely B&B set in woods away from the ...
Penguins
I made it into town with no tire problems. Here I stayed in a pretty crappy hostel, but met 4 Israelis, a couple and 2 girls. They were very nice, and I spent the following day with them on a boat ride to see some penguins. The ...
Day 195: Feb. 26, 2008 Río Gallegos - Punta Arenas
Day 195: February 26, 2008 Río Gallegos to Punta Arenas, Chile We got up at 8:30 and had a great breakfast before checking out. I tried to get a flight to Buenos Aires on Aerolineas Argentinas but they were booked through March 8th. We tried to take ...
Day 115: December 7, 2007:Calafate to Punta Arenas
Day 115: December 7, 2007: El Calafate to Punta Arenas, Chile My alarm went off at 2:15. I got up quickly. Shirl had been awake for half an hour already, worrying that she wouldn't hear the alarm. We packed our bags and went up to the office. True to ...
Expedition to Tucker Islets
In the afternoon we took a tour of Tucker Islets, mainly to view the birds that inhabit this area. We did not go ashore on this trip due to the fragile habitat of the islands. Below are some pictures of our trip. Click on a picture to see a larger ...
USH, ARG, and Penguins
USH, ARG is my abbreviation for Ushuaia, Argentina (USH also happens to be the airport´s code), and is appropriate for the emotions one experiences... "Ush" sounds like something positive I used to hear in Japan, "Gosh" even, as in "Ush, look at those ...
It Begins: Punta Arenas, Chile
... pampas of Argentine Patagonia the whole way, and towards the end could make out the far east of the Straight of Magellan. Punta Arenas is a friendly, windblown town on the Beagle Channel. Looking across to Chilean Tierra del Fuego, there is only a ...