Punta Arenas, Chile Travel Blogs

Agreeable Arenas
Mar 20, 1992

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 ...

We leave Tierra del Fuego
Mar 17, 2005 (8 photos)

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
Feb 6, 2006 (4 photos)

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
Feb 4, 2007

... (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 ...

Good-Bye Desert, Hello End of the World
Sep 2, 2007 (35 photos)

... 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 the ...

And then we were two
Nov 9, 2006 (8 photos)

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 London. ...

El Poocho and the Sunny Day
Dec 21, 2005 (160 photos)

... 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 140, ...

Wild and Woolly
Apr 13, 2005 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Most southerly point on my trip...
Oct 12, 2006

... 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 have ...

Brrrrrrrr! This is supposed to be the summer!
Jan 6, 2004 (22 photos)

... 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 have ...

Patagonia: the Home of the Gods
Oct 20, 2008 (42 photos)

... 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?
Mar 1, 2008 (69 photos)

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 ...

avalanches noodles bristolians and nice shoes
Jan 24, 2007 (2 photos)

... ;calculated we´ve traveled south, covering almost 4000 kilometers, thats the equivalent of traveling from Norway to Nigeria! The town of Punta Arenas started life 60km south of here, founded in 1843 by Captain John Williams, a seaman from, guess where, ...

On the Magellan Strait!
Aug 28, 2005 (4 photos)

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!!
Jan 26, 2007

... 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...
Oct 28, 2009 (4 photos)

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 5- ...

Pingüinos de Otway
Jan 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... 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), mirador, siesta, ...

Long trip back to Punta Arenas
Feb 25, 2007

Three bus rides...

Collision Damage Waiver - excellent invention!
Nov 17, 2007 (3 photos)

... . It also meant that paved road beckoned. We gave a little in car cheer when we got off the gravel.  We got back into Punta Arenas in the pouring rain and the car rental shop wasn't open. We were two hours early. So we checked in our hotel and ...

Penguins
Feb 8, 2009 (4 photos)

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 ...

Punta Arenas
Dec 5, 2007

Puntos Arenas

Day 195: Feb. 26, 2008 Río Gallegos - Punta Arenas
Feb 26, 2008 (1 photos)

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 the ...

Day 115: December 7, 2007:Calafate to Punta Arenas
Dec 7, 2007 (1 photos)

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 ...

USH, ARG, and Penguins
Mar 26, 2006 (5 photos)

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
Mar 21, 2006

... 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 single ...

Penguins, penguins everywhere
Mar 20, 2009 (13 photos)

Southbound again We arrived back in Punta Arenas yesterday evening, after driving all the way back from Puerto Natales. The drive back was uneventful, and we both have a newfound appreciation for paved roads after the last couple of days. We checked into ...

Punta Arenas, Chile
Feb 26, 2009 (2 photos)

We arrived at what was to be our first tendered port but so late in the day that the Chilean authorities denied us entry into the port so the best we could do was to look at the city from the harbour while we waited for our pilot to organize our sail plan ...

Punta Arenas
Oct 28, 2006

Hi Folks, Got to Punta Arenas from Ushuaia. Feeling much better at last. Short trip by bus by recent standards - only 12hrs! Moving on after one night here as I am heading to Puerto Natales in Chile to do some trekking in Torres del Paine National Park. ...

Ushuaia, AR até Punta Arenas Chile
Feb 3, 2004 (10 photos)

 

Day 118: December 10, 2007 Última Esperanza
Dec 10, 2007 (15 photos)

Day 118: December 10, 2007 Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas: Seno Última Esperanza We got up around 6:30 and ate breakfast so that we could be at the pier, a few blocks away from the hotel, by 7:30. We left our luggage in the deposito so we could pick it ...