Hostal Tren del Sur
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Cruising Patagonia
DAY 1
My heart beat faster as we approached the Navimag 'Puerto Eden' boat, though I didn't realise it until we were standing on the open lift, which had just moved a passenger bus up two floors to the open cargo deck, and was now taking us to the main deck.
We, all 17 guests, where weaved around various staircases, through …
Not the nicest town but a great hostel and dinner
After a long long walk from Argentina we arrived in Puerto Montt tired and weary. We picked a hostel out of the lonely planet, hailed a cab at the bus station and headed for the Tren del Sur. luckily they had a room available and after a much needed shower we had an amazing dinner in their restaurant and slept very well in a nice cozy bed!
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Flying day and grocery shopping day!
Flying from Bariloche, Argintina to Puerto Montt, Chile to eventually get to Puerto Natales, Chile to start Torres del Paine! We had eaten a fair bit of our supplies from Calgary on the last two hikes (mainly trail mix, juice crystals and peanut butter were low) so we needed to do some shopping in a larger Chilean town. It is impossible to buy …
Not Another Glacier!
... close to the thrill of seeing my first glacier. Perhaps, like ‘love’, the first one always seems to be the best. After a day of scenic cruising we finally entered the Straight of Magellan, the only navigable passage between South America and Tierra del Fuego. First discovered in 1520, this was the only route between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean until the Panama Canal was completed in 1905. ...
Pancho and the "panchos"
... eggs, cereals, an array of sweets (mostly küchen-ish, but also some chocolate mousse-topped cakes!). And of course coffee (which seems like something that the Chileans have not fully mastered yet... I remember that they used to only have instant coffee for the longest time), tea and a selection of natural, fresh juices as well as yogurts. We ate pretty voraciously in a pretty spacious dinning room (nice!-- hate crowded breakfast rooms!) ...