Diego de Almagro Punta Arenas
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Quiet times in Punta Arenas
On Christmas Day we caught the morning bus from Puerto Natales to Punta Arenas, a journey of approximately three hours. The bus driver kindly dropped us at our accommodation, a luxurious 4 star hotel right on the waterfront. This was a welcome improvement on what we were used to!
Whilst other members of the group headed off to Sena Otway …
Penguins
Today, we took a 5 hr bus ride to Punta Arenas, where we would be staying for the night.
We arrived in Punta Arenas at roughly 1pm, dropped off our things at our amazing hotel - Diego de Almagro, and then headed straight to lunch.
Guido took us to this amazing sandwich place called Lomits. It was delicious. I ordered the Complete …
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 5-star, but still VERY nice compared to some of the other accommodations we´ve stayed at!).
Look At Me Now
... in the morning) people slowly started trickling off to bed. I knew it would be a good idea for me to do the same, because the next day I knew I had to be at the airport relatively early to catch my flight to Patagonia!
My plane left at 10:30 from Santiago, and the flight took about 3 hours. I spent most of my time watching the inflight movie (in Spanish of course) and talking to the gentleman seated next to me. His name was Alberto and ...
Penguins!
... sheep.
After a number of pasta disasters through our lack of Spanish lingo, we settled on a bowl of cereal and hot chocolate for tea which warmed us up very nicely after returning from the penguins in the snow! Earlier Ish had got excited regarding some pasta sauce that looked like it may contain a few chilies… little did he know that’s all it contained and no… he couldn’t hack ...
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TravelPod Member ReviewsDiego de Almagro Punta Arenas
Free Breakfast (amazing). Great facilities. Big rooms. What more could you ask for! Definitely what I needed after camping for a few days.
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