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Puerto Natales Slideshow
Puerto Natales
Travel Blogs from Puerto Natales, Chile
Torres del Paine, Chile
The bus ride from El Calafate to Puerto Natales didnīt go quite as smoothly as hoped. The projected 4 hours turned into 7. As we barely met another vehicle on the way we canīt put this down to traffic issues. Nor can the blame be met entirely by the ...
Faehre- durch die Fiorde
... - gepaeck wird uns in die Kabine gebracht und das groesste Glueck (offseason) wir haben die 4er Kabine alleine :))) Puerto Natales ist eigentlich der Ausgangspunkt fuer den beruehmtesten Nationalpark von Chile: Torres del Paine. Schon bei der Herfahrt im ...
Misty Chile
... Chile and then onto the Chilean town of Punta Arenas, where we had another 90 minute wait for our final bus to our destination, Puerto Natales. At least this gave us a chance to walk around the centre of Punta Arenas, seeing the main Plaza de Armas which ...
A Welsh influence
A Welsh influence is to be found in Patagonia,mainly in the sheep that they brought in the late 1800s and which now thriveon the plains of Patagonia. Indeed many of the old and elaborate houses were built on fortunes made on wool. However the sheep are ...
Day 116: December 8 Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales
Day 116: December 8, 2007 Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales We had a good breakfast at the hotel dining room which overlooks the church on the plaza from the 2nd floor. After that, I gathered the passports and went over to the bus company office to buy ...
Pantsagonia
We didīnt expect much from Puerto Natales after Punta Arenas. Our main objective was to get to El Calafate as soon as possible. We wanted to see Penguins and Glaciers in Patagonia, how hard could it be? Well, upon arriving in Puerto Natales ...
Torres del Paine
... opposed to the 5 day "W trek" that is very popular with hikers at the Torres del Paine National Park. The bus from Puerto Natales took around 2 hours to arrive at the entrance of Torres del Paine Naitonal Park, from which we took another smaller minivan ...
Towers of Pain, Torres de Paine
... Arenas in the end after all. I was going to describe the mad scramble we had to endure actually getting from Ushuaia to Puerto Natales but it's one of those 'you had to be there' experiences that are probably very boring to read about. We arrived ...
Entry into Chile
... shipping, but business became depressed after the Panama Canal was finished. It was still a nice town, nonetheless. We arrived in Puerto Natales this afternoon. The Torres del Paine National Park is about 100 km from here. Steve and I should spend the ...
Pucon to the great south...
... real guys guy. He had several card tricks and dirty jokes to keep us occupied throughout the evening. Most travelers who get to Puerto Natales are here simply to Hike the Torres del Paine national park. I didnīt even know it existed until the boat ...
Puerto Natales (Patagonia)
We took a bus to Puerto Natales and went to sleep in the hostel Amerindia which turned out to be quiet a lovely place and quiet despite the thin walls. Breakfast was pretty good (muesli/yoghurt/good bread/marmelade/butter) compared to what we normally get ...
Towers of Pain
... nbsp; The plan was to trek the Torres del Paine together for a 4 days. We arrived a little earlier than planned to Puerto Natales (which is the jump off point for T.D.P) to discover there really is nothing to do here. Its a pretty relaxed ...
Day 196 - Puerto Natales
We'd planned to use today as a rest day to rest our aching bodies after the 4 day trek, but what we HADN'T planned for was a deafening house party going through the night, denying us any sleep whatsoever. We both lay there with quilts and pillows over ...
Day 80 – Whole lotta of planning
The funny thing about Puerto Natales is that most people don't plan to stay here long. It’s a gateway between Torres del Paine, Argentinean Patagonia and the southern cities. When you stay in a backpacker’s hostel here, you can almost ...
Brotsuche
... zu suchen. Viel Zeit verbrachten wir mit der Suche nach lang haltbarem Pitabrot oder ähnlichem... gibt es nicht!!! Obwohl Puerto Natales der Ausgangspunkt von tausenden Touristen in den Nationalpark ist, die dort mehrer Tage am Stück verbringen... es ...
Torres del Paine:Dream Spires and a Dream Realized
... and we strongly recommend boycotting this hotel - a far better choice would be to stay at a hostel in the gateway city of Puerto Natales, where most trekkers leave their bags without incident. A little deflated, we left the park via shuttle bus to the ...
Sea dogs ashore
... had hit about two or three of the only twenty good weather days (boy were we and our stomachs pleased) we came into port at Puerto Natales. Rose and I had really hoped to get out of town straight away and get ahead of the other crowd on the boat. They ...
just passin through
... for another load. This we did, and quite efficiently, I might add. At the new place, we were able to get tickets to natales leaving in about 2 hours. During the wait, the twin sister of the suspiciously-smiling chica in the first place came in and i soon ...
A Random day in Puerto Natales
... packs with them, set off to hire a couple of bikes with a plan to cycle up to Puerto Borias. Itīs about 6km from Puerto Natales, and apparently had an interesting museum. Iīd heard the name somewhere before but couldnīt quite place it - but assumed ...
Puerto Natales, Chile
Back on the bus February 6th to leave Argentina and drive to Puerto Natales, Chile, our gateway city for the hiking at Torres del Paine. Once again our bus trip was long (over 5 hrs) but we could see Torres del Paine looming ahead, and the windswept ...
Patagonia, Part I
As far as we could tell, the town of Puerto Natales consists of a bed, a travel agency, and sandwiches the size of your head. I say this only because they are the only things we, and probably most tourists, get to see of the town before moving on. This is ...
Puerto Natales - preparing for the big hike
... it doesnīt seem to be quite so simple. We also had to hunt high and low to buy two sleeping bag inners. Although Puerto Natales does have some camping gear for sale if there are very specific things you want you might be better bringing them with you if ...
The Party Boat
... been on it all of four days, but in that time you end up getting quite close to your fellows shipmates. Not to worry, we dock in little Puerto Natales and seem to fill the town. Passengers are everywhere, and we all end up meeting for Pizza that ...
Getting Ready For Our 4 Day Trek
We jumped on an early morning bus to Puerto Natales which involved another crossing of the Chilean/ Argentinian border for, what was now, the umpteenth time. Our passports are littered with exit/ entry stamps from these two countries. Thankfully, the bus ...
Torres Del Paine
... few days separation will only be for a couple of months... On the 5th, we spent the whole day bussing from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales to the national park, a 6 hour journey in total. But when arrived at the park all of those windy hours through ...
Breakdown, with a view
Next up on the Patagonia's Greatest Hits list is Torres del Paine, another mountainous state park near Puerto Natales, Chile. Here I found a nice, homey hostel/B&B called Dos Lagos. The owner, Alejandro, was really nice, and also spoke ...
Puerto Natales
... gentes e uma paisagem muito bonita sobre o rio Sena Ultima Esperanza! We left Argentina, but we're still in Patagonia, now in Puerto Natales, Chile. This time we travelled by bus and made part of the way in a semi-desertic road for goats...well, we're ...