22nd to 24th March 2008 On Sat, 22nd I caught the bus to Puerto Natales, Chile so that I can visit the magnificent Torres Del Paine national park. The journey took 6 hours with an hour queuing at the border crossing, arriving in Puerto Natales around 2pm. I found the hostel without any bother. After check in, I had a wander around town - very sm...

Rebecca and I spent three days and two nights camping and trekking in Torres Del Paine (Paine means pale blue, probably in reference to the color of the galciers) National Park trekking through the wonderland of Chilean Patagonia. Over the three days we completed two thirds of the trek known as The 'W' because of the shape of the trek as it look...

So while Nik and I were waiting around Puerto Natales and collecting our camping equipment for the W hike through Torres del Paine, we got word from Bret and Oksana that they were going to do the W as well! So we waited another day to meet up with them. In the meantime, we went to see a gigantic prehistoric cave that housed these Miladon creatur...

Chile by name and chile by nature. Holy "ski pants" the wind would cut you the first day we arrived in Puerto Natales. Not as far south as Ushuaia but it seemed colder and definitely a lot less touristy. Which is good in a way as we will not have telescopic Nikon lenses in our faces blocking any decent views. We booked into the hostel for 2 nigh...

Hello everyone, I made it through the fijords in one piece and ported in a town called Puerto Natales in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. Greg and I picked up another traveler...Tami. She was on our bus trip and the cargo ferry. She is Australian and traveling alone for a few months. We stayed in Puerto Natales just one night to get every...

Happy Birthday, ma! I think last I wrote, I was on my way out of Rio Gallegos. I am about to re-enter that bland little town for the 3rd time tomorrow, heading back north. For some reason, all routes going from this far south go through Rio Gallegos, where there is nothing. And if you get stuck there overnight, lodging is not cheap. But I suppos...

We felt the pressure of too much on the go the last couple of weeks so we took a day of rest here in Puerto Natales, Chile before heading into the National Parque Torres del Paine. The day of rest ended up getting filled with paying bills and buying groceries for the trip. We also spent a lot of energy complaining about how expensive Chile is, t...

Well, we seemed to have made home here in hostal Dos Lagunas. Once we got back from the hiking we had a couple of days of chilling out and then got active again - Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina (see separate entry), 2 days of biking and even horse riding - which was of course followed by an outdoor hot tub with cool beer :) The half day biki...

We spent an uneventful two days back in El Calafate relaxing, enjoying the hot running water, provisioning and fattening ourselves up for our next test of endurance- 9 days of trekking in Torres del Paine. We stayed at the America del Sur hostel which had spacious rooms, private full baths and a beautiful view of the mountains. Finding a replace...

Lomalaisilla pitää niin kiirettä, että blogin päivitykselle ei ole jäänyt juurikaan aikaa. Vähän on pitänyt tinkiä myös nukkumisesta, harvoin tulee herättyä näin aikaisin lomalla ja töihin ei koskaan. :-) Torstaina lähdettiin kukonlaulun aikaan kohti El Chalenin pikkukylää ja sieltä oppaan johdolla Los Glacieres National Parkiin. Ensimmäisenä pä...