Punta Arenas

Planning the trip since the middle of last year did nothing for my preparedness. Despite that, I eventually got myself together and made it to Santiago, Chile. Then, I kept leaving places and doing things, some of which is documented here, ...

Welcome All to the 2006 Turn My World Upside Down Tour. This trip starts in Punta Arenas, Chile and ends in Quito, Ecuador. Between the two I hope to also travel to Argentina, Uraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. Please feel free to pass this site on to ...

... main square with its colonial mansions and Ferdinand Magellan statue, and climbing the steps to a lookout point above the city. Punta Arenas is a rather modern industrial city based around the petro chemical industry so there wasn’t that much to ...

... del Paine National Park. Here are some photos to give you a flavour of the place. We then moved on to Punta Arenas (3hrs by bus), the capital of Chilean Patagonia, and spent a few more days updating this blog and wandering ...

... foto desde el avion donde, si se fijan bien, se puede ver algo del humo saliendo del crater!!! Aqui en Punta Arenas hemos estado dando vueltas buscando el resto de equipos que nos faltaban, por fin conseguimos todo lo que necesitamos y ...

... to get some food into us and look at the main sites around the centre. There was nothing particularly extraordinary about Punta Arenas except for some remarkably well manicured trees along its avenues. The plaza was pretty but nothing more than we had ...