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Viaje a El fin Del Mundo
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Hi
I am writing this entry to my blog a few days earlier than I had intended or wished for but you will hear all about that in my next entry concerning our trip to Torres Del Paine National Park. No time for that today.....
Last time I wrote we were still enjoying the fine city of Santiago. On Sunday we flew down to the foot of the world to Punta Arenas.
This is a large fishing village come millitary base of about 100,000 people sitting on the straights of magellan, about as close as you can get to Antartica without hanging out with Penguins! I was suprised that the town didnt quite have that frontier feel that I thought it would. There were kids roaming the streets in the full rapper gangsta kit!!!!!
The world is becoming truly homogenized! Rather disappointing I think.
We ended up spending an afternoon in Punta Arenas because our plane missed the connecting bus to Puerto Natales by 10 minutes. Typical!!!! The 3 or 4 hours we spent in Punta Arenas was plenty. There really wasnt much happening in town, but then again it was Sunday afternoon. Maybe on Mondays the place is buzzing - I guess I will never know.
The afternoon gave us enough time for lunch and enough time to contemplate my potential retirement see the photo below...
Once the bus arrived it was a 3 hour trip along the flat grasslands of Patagonia, home to a few sheep and little else, arriving in Puerto Natales at 8.00pm. The next 3 hours were three of the most hectic of my life. The mission didnt seem hard, all we needed to do was find a room for the night, buy some groceries for our 4 day trek starting the next day, buy a bus ticket to take us to the park, rent a tent and buy some fuel for our stove..... ok the fact it was after 8.00pm on a Sunday night in a small town made our plans a little challenging, but I would never have thought how crazy it would be.
Thankfully after lots of running around, plenty of frustrations with shops being shut or not having what we needed and we were fully kitted up for our trek. We were ready to head to Torres Del Paine which promised to be one of the highlights of our whole trip....... stay tuned!!!!!
By the way...... my spanglish (broken spanish/broken english) is progressing very nicely. I am so glad I took those few lessons before I left for our trip. Every day I can string together a few more words and the locals seem to be generally understanding me and givning me what I want. By the time I get back to Oz I probably will need to re-learn English again.... Anyways, enough for now. I will write about our adventures in Torres Del Paine when I get a spare 10 minutes.
Over and out
Where I stayed:
Múono Hostel
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