Sitting here with free wifi at the hostel in Puerto Natales. It is good to be back in civilization. I'd like to catch you up on the whole trip but I'm not sure I'm up to the task on my small keyboard and with I can't really sync my camera to my iPhone and the Torres needs to be described with photo back-up. So I'll start with our whirlwind first days:
Staring the 16th we flew to Santiago, got in at 8am and saw as much of the city as possible (see previous post), back to the airport and flew out at 8pm to Punta Arenas. We got in at 1am, slept at the airport, woke up at 7 for our flight to Puerto William only to be told they had never heard if us. I guess I should have checked the translation for "reservations" in Spanish - still fuming over this one. So in the next 20 minutes we reworked our plans and were on a bus to Puerto Natales to do the Torres del Paine first with the earliest flight they could get us on to PW on the 28th. Just enough time to make it work. So we bused up and hiked our 20km to the campsite only to wake up and do the same first thing in the morning. A long 2 days to say the least.
I hope to be able to supplement this with a short TdP entry and a few pics soon if the hostel computers cooperate. We had a couple issues, but good weather an an overall positive experience. Sorry for the gigantic photo in the earlier post - I have to figure out how to format entries on my phone still...
Hasta Luego!
Staring the 16th we flew to Santiago, got in at 8am and saw as much of the city as possible (see previous post), back to the airport and flew out at 8pm to Punta Arenas. We got in at 1am, slept at the airport, woke up at 7 for our flight to Puerto William only to be told they had never heard if us. I guess I should have checked the translation for "reservations" in Spanish - still fuming over this one. So in the next 20 minutes we reworked our plans and were on a bus to Puerto Natales to do the Torres del Paine first with the earliest flight they could get us on to PW on the 28th. Just enough time to make it work. So we bused up and hiked our 20km to the campsite only to wake up and do the same first thing in the morning. A long 2 days to say the least.
I hope to be able to supplement this with a short TdP entry and a few pics soon if the hostel computers cooperate. We had a couple issues, but good weather an an overall positive experience. Sorry for the gigantic photo in the earlier post - I have to figure out how to format entries on my phone still...
Hasta Luego!
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