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Puerto Natales Slideshow
Puerto Natales
Travel Blogs from Puerto Natales, Chile
Day 195 - Torres del Paine to Puerto Natales
... of the bridge. After claiming our packs we transfered onto the big bus and headed out of the park for the 2.5 hrs back to Puerto Natales. On the way we saw some groups of llama type creatures, but I've now heard so many conflicting names for them ...
A good nights sleep
DAY 5 - 2pm onwards - we got the bus back to Puerto Natales from Torres del Paine at 2pm. It was a different coach but again smelt of pee and although it was half empty, by the end of the trip everyone was sitting at the front despite ...
Puerto Natales - preparation for Torres del Paine!
DAY 1 - got the bus from El Calafate to Puerto Natales which involved crossing the border from Argentina to Chile. We had totally forgotten that you could not take any food over the border and Gem soon realised that she had a third of a small packet ...
Magnificence of Torres Del Paine and Glacier Grey
... but now we just buy the ticket & get on. Our standards have dropped quite low, don`t you think?! Anyway, arriving in Puerto Natales, hostal agents again swooned in on us offering their place to stay at competitive prices. Nita promised a nice lady to ...
NP Torres del Paine
... . Dommage, je n aurais rien vue des fantastiques montagnes qui, sur les photos avec ciels bleues, semblaient incroyables. Retour a Puerto Natales, tres decu, mais avec une douche chaude et depart le lendemain vers Punta Arenas en esperant un temps plus ...
Glacial Christmas
Back in the land of better beef, better coffee, better spanish accents and cheaper prices, HELLO AGAIN ARGENTINA! In Latin tradition, we celebrated Christmas with dinner on the 24th. From the Torres hike, Peter, Gian, Georgina, Kim and I all spent ...
The ´W´ Trek: Torres Del Paine National Park
15-12-10 18-12-10 The ´W´ Trek incorporates the three beautiful mirradors of ´Torres Del Paine´national park. The first day in Torres was a seven hour trek up to glacier grey. Gaining ground on Glacier grey I couldn´t help but feel a little ...
Torres del Paine - Day Four
Day four did not consist of much. We slept in until the sun heated up our small tent to an unbearable temperature that would prevent any two men from sharing the same small space. After taking a much needed hot shower, I ate some canned ravioli for ...
I buy stuff
Today is trekking preparation and purchasing of supplies day. Tom makes out a list of everything we will need. I like this as he is already doing most of the thinking which means I can just sit there, whistle a toon and exist inside my own ...
A long drunken day
... is having a special on them ($1,000 chilean pesos, $2.25usd). Pisco sours are the national drink of not only Chile but Peru oddly enough as well (two countries claiming fame to the same drink is like two assholes claiming fame to ...
What up Chile
... like 6 fucking Argentinian stamps now and Argentina sort of dominates my passport like the fate of losing dominates the Cubs. Puerto Natales is the jump off point for the Torres del Paine Unesco Biosphere Reserve and the crown jewel of national ...
Longest bus ride ever
The bus sucks. Plain and simple. And I will be on it for 28 hours, sweet. The buses in southern Argentina are shittier because the roads blow as most of them are gravel and our bus has steel grating covering the front windows except for ...
Puerto Natales
Hi all well we arrived in Puerto Natales on the 19th with the goal of doing some day hikes in the famous Torres Del Paine national park. Unfortunately the bus we booked to the park failed to pick us up from our hostel at 7am as scheduled so after many ...
Torres del Paine - Day Three
Midday on day two we realized that day three would also border on ten hours. We at least would walk 28 km. Although visiting the Valle de Frances was a success and in every way ideal, we had to backtrack 90 minutes, which meant for us that we would ...
Day 88 – Little run around
This maybe wasn't the way we wanted to feel the morning after completing the W-trek. Barking dogs were the first thing to wake us up, followed shortly by the people in our dorm that resembled stampeding elephants as they left for the 7:30am bus to start ...
Chillian fjords and trekking in Patagonia
... with not a person in sight. The land was mostly rocky outcrops with trees and couple of waterfalls in the distance. We came into Puerto Natales on a lovely sunny though windy day - which became a bit of a feature for the next 5 days. This port ...
All aboard! Tooooottt!!!! Toot!
... moeten we ons melden bij de rederij om aan boord te kunnen van de Navimag ferry. Die gaat ons in hopelijk 3 dagen varen naar Puerto Montt brengen. Net komt de gastvrouw van ons hostel binnelopen en die zegt dat de boot nu moeite heeft om aan te meren. ...
Chilean Fjords and Mountains
... views of the glacier from the dry safety of the bar, while we played cards. All in all, a beautifully disappointing experience, but hey... it couldn´t all be great all of the time. Now we´re back in good old Puerto Natales, waiting for the next ...
3 days is almost as good as 10!
... outside. We diceded to have a bit of a walk to see the glacier gray then get the boat back accross lago pehoe then a bus back to Puerto Natales! So our 10 day trek had turned into 3 and a bit days! Photos will follow soon We are now in El Calafate and are ...
Day 79 – Disembark
... cabins, but almost silent in the cafeteria as people are rushing to pack so they can make their connections. Our final destination, Puerto Natales, is a gateway city to the great southern Patagonia. Though some say there isn't much to do there, we intend ...
La Protesta
Relieved we were back in Puerto Natales we returned to the hostel we stayed at before, however, we were told that there was a meeting in the nearby school to find out about leaving the town, so we rushed over there. When we arrived at the school it ...
Day 87 – Cursed sunny day
... that was 100 meters from our refugio. For 2,500 pesos ($5) each, we caught a bus that gets us to the bus that takes us to Puerto Natales. When you see how narrow the bridge is that they have to pass through, it seems like a deal. I was wondering why there ...
Pto. Natales
At the end of the Navimag ferry trip was Puerto Natales--which I quite liked! It's sort of funky, rather outdoorsy, and it feels like the edge of the frontier. It is the gateway to Torres del Paine National Park, Chile's premier natural destination and ...
Torres del Paine / Ultima Esperanza
... Tuerme und Hoerner von Paine, sehen Condore und Guanacos (= Art von Lama) sowie malerische Wasserfaelle und riesige Gletscher. Puerto Natales is basically the gateway to the world famous Torres del Paine National Park. People say, if you ...
Torres del Paine
... ... Ogsaa begyndte det at regne... ogsaa er det bare ikke sjovt laengere at vaere i en proppet bus med vaadt toej :( Turen tilbage til Puerto Natales tog en del tid bla pga vejret, saa det var lige paa et haengende haar, vi naaede vores bus hjem til P. ...
Never Trust a Man in Gore-Tex!
... incredible (with a palpable sense of relief as well as achievement!) To do the hike, we based ourselves in a little town called Puerto Natales on the Chilean side of the border. While both Puerto Natales and el Calafate are major bases for hiking, there ...
Doing the "W"
... in order to get to our starting off point - the weather could (and indeed did) improve. We had arrived in Puerto Natales, in the South of Chile, a day earlier, the short bus ride from El Calafate depositing us in town early afternoon. We had much to do: ...
Puerto Natales
... tima. Não falei do aeroporto de Punta Arenas (ok, ficamos lá por meia hora mas, agradou). batemos perna o dia todo aqui em Natales, o movimento da cidade é mais dos locais (Outubro ainda é baixa temporada, começo de primavera) mas, ainda assim, ...
My Backpacking Adventure
... . So, our travel times and destinations in the park got a bit screwed up. After some grocery shopping and lunch in Puerto Natales, we finally caught a bus into Torres. The ride to the entrance of the park took about an hour. Just ...