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Jose Noguira 1116 Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile, 56-61-241300

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Another day, another country and another currency

Well we are in Chile now, and its another currency to deal with. In Argentina, you get about 5 Pesos to the Pound, but in Chile you get 850 Pesos to the Pound!! so its all very confusing trying to work out how much things cost, especially when the cash machine only gives you 10,000 peso notes!! We flew into Punta Arenas from Ushuaia, the flight takes about 40 minutes, and LAN Chile seem a really good airline. Flying in and out of Ushuaia is an unforgettable experience, as you fly in over the ...

Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile loumark
Day 115: December 7, 2007:Calafate to Punta Arenas

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 form, the cab arrived on time and the birthday party was still in full swing. We arrived at the bus terminal a half an hour early and boarded about 20 minutes later. The bus pulled out just about on time. All four of us slept most of the way to R...

Punta Arenas, Chile magellanic
Day 118: December 10, 2007 Última Esperanza

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 up and leave upon our return from the boat excursion. The day was overcast and windy, not ideal for a fjord cruise but fairly typical for the area. We boarded the 21 de Mayo at 7:45 and headed out a little after 8:00 with about 25 people on boa...

Punta Arenas, Chile magellanic
Collision Damage Waiver - excellent invention!

Our trip back to Punta Arenas didn't exactly go to plan. The plan was to drive to the Hosteria Las Torres to get a view of 'the towers' from the other side. Only I hadn't planned on getting a left hand drive 4 wheel drive Pick-Up across a very narrow bridge. There was a load bang and I realised that I had hit the wooden bridge with my wheel arch. Not a lot of damage but enough to upset me - as I'd never hit anything before! Fears of losing our excess and this being a very expensive trip went ...

Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile olefrog
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Completed the W and this my last week

... say 5 hours it doesn't register that 5 hours and 14 kms is that far but after 2 hours there was still another 3 to go. It was when I met a friend coming from the other side and she said there was about 2 hours to go that I really felt tired. Although the majority of the trail was along the base, you often have cross raging rivers, climb steep hills and often the trail was just rocks and although the view was beautiful you really don´t get the time to enjoy it as you have to ...

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The Lastest Stand & Panama´s not good for everyone

... all together in this crazy place. The Torres (Spanish for Towers) for which the park is named jutt violently from the rough center of the circuit. These huge pink granite structures, like much of Patagonia, would make an excellent fantasy movie set. The Cuernos (horns) del Paine were to me, even more impressive due to the marks of the wind carving. They´re located in one of the windiest sections of the park, with whorls etched into ...

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WHEN YOU'RE FEELIN' TOO PAMPA'D, GO TO PATAGONIA

... entry to the country. If you slime your way through the land border, then apparently you avoid the charge. That's cool, almost making up for the humiliation of spacing out my entry card in Uruguay and having to buy my way past the immigration point. The weather's cool too, as you might expect this far south, cool and rainy, but I eventually find the hotel I've reserved and exchange some money at the same rate I passed on at the ...

Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile hardiek
Patagonia: the Home of the Gods

... Could it be because most of the planet's landmass (and its population) is in the northern hemisphere? After the viewpoint, we went to a museum where we had a great overview of the city's history. Fascinating place filled with the adventures and haunting stories of the city's earliest inhabitants. We then continued the tour to the city's cemetery. Morbid, no. Stunning, yes! The cemetery was opened in the late 19th century by one of the city's richest citizens ...

Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile velvetescape
Chilean Patagonia

After a week or 2 of intense glacier action we were ready for a bit of change of scenery. That, and Iain's giant blister on his heel led us to postpone our trip into the Torres del Paine national park for a few days of hiking and camping in favour of visiting the penguin colonies off the coast of nearby Punta Arenas. To get there we had to cross back into Chile which was relatively painless despite the border control police insisting that they had to search every ...

Punta Arenas, Chile helenandiain
Punta Arenas

... expect anything too good on that. Not long after<br>seeing the condors we ran through a rain shower and the windows on my side of the bus received a nice coating of mud.<br><br>A few miles further on we reached a ferry crossing the Fitz Roy channel to the island. Wait till you see the pictures of this! It was poles apart from the ferry Dick and Marlene took us on in Edmonds last year. We survived the short crossing and went on to the estancia. We had a very good ...

Punta Arenas, Patagonia, Chile sjl901
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