Puerto Natales Hotels - Reviews and Rates

First of all, to Mom and to Iris, Happy Birthday! And to everyone else, Happy Saint Patrick's Day! It kind of went by uneventfully here, but I hope those of you back home make up for it by celebrating on my behalf. Heading South Today, we left hot and sunny Santiago behind for cold, windy and wet Southern Patagonia. Well, three out of four of us...

Got the bus from El Calafate this morning, drove through some amazing Patagonian landscapes - saw some ostrich-type birds roaming free and we think some condors - we´ll verify that later. Crossed the border back into Chile, only took an hour and a half (which involved unloading a whole coachload of people and their gear and back on the bus again...

We arrived in the town of Puerto Natales, close to the famous Torres del Paine National Park. This is one of Chile´s most impressive sights and many visitors walk the famous W route, typically a 4 day hike.Being geared up with enthusiasm and fearing that we could probably do with the exercise, we hired ourselves camping equipment for the trip. U...

So the border crossing was pretty uneventful apart from the fact that when we hit Chile it was snowing and when we got off the bus in Puerto Natales it was still snowing, a freezing, driving, hailing type snow. This did not bode well for camping. We went to a meeting at a guesthouse, Erratic Rock, who gave an excellent talk on preparing for the ...

Partiamo dopo una velocissima colazione e saliamo su un pulman che ci e' venuto a prendere addirittura in ostello.. che lusso! ... per approfittare della situazione lo facciamo aspettare qualche minuto mentre finiamo i nostri panini con la marmellata. Abbiamo due tende: la mia e una da tre persone affittata in ostello. Poi fornelli e il seguente...

Efter en oev nat - paa vaerelse med 2 andre, hmm, var det tidligt op igen - denne gang gik turen til den naerliggende kaempe national park, som har navn efter bjergene, Torres del Paine. Koereturen var noget kortere end den dagen inden - til Calefate i Argentina, men tilgengaeld var det en noget stoerre bus. Det er en smule besvaerligt at faa ba...

Around 9pm I went to the boat, as instructed. The boarding room was heaving with people and after a while I got bored waiting and couldn't get over the number of travellers sitting alone not making any conversation with anyone else. Eenually I went up to a guy around my age who I hoped would speak english (although I did ask him first just in ca...

Yes here I am in the most souther region of Chile. I visited the park yesterday. Wow that is awesome. It is shame I am not going to trek at all but it just did not seem to work out for me this trip. Maybe I will be back this way someday and can do a proper pack trip into the Chilean wilderness. It is awe inspiring mountains and glaciers. It make...

Another long bus journey back into Chile. Arrived late in a town called Puerto Natales to be surrounded by touts looking for folk to come to their hostel. We ended up camping out the back of a restaurant, felt a bit strange wandering through the kitchen to get to our tent. Stayed a couple of days to stock up on food for the trek, man their super...

Crossing into Chile again was an easy affair and now I have 7 passport stamps from this trip. More are sure to be acquired soon. Sophia had a sore throat on the bus and was starting to feel sick. Chances are that the stuffy hostel coupled with walking 20 miles in one day had gotten to her. Arriving at our hostel was nice, and the staff was quite...