Day 1: Punta Arenas to Torres del Paine
The long waited trip to the 8th world natural wonder national park of Torres del Paine begun early in the morning of 10-nov-2013, when we got on the bus from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales (248 km, 3.5 hrs). We took J Buses, as apparently they were the partners for our Hospedaje Magenllanes managers.
The landscape along the way was amazing, in the sense different from Latvian - trees that look like they've been stretched to one side
herd of sheep, cows, nandus (that's my guess what the big birds were)
But most impressive was the wind which was making the bus to swing from one side to the other, back and forth. The thought of the wind as the everyday situation let me stay calm; the drivers knew how to handle this obviously.
Arriving in Puerto Natales gave us hope to be able to eat something as we got really hungry. Since we had 2.5hrs till bus to the park, we decided to walk around the town in search for food. we got our backpacks and strolled on the streets. We did not really know which was the right way, thus relying on the luck which kinda failed us as it turned out later. we had been walking in the wrong (away from the city) direction, thus getting tired, and angry as the hunger grew. Since we did not see any restaurant or any other place to eat, we entered the small grocery shop. Unfortunately they did not really sell anything we would be happy to eat. In my broken Spanish i managed to clarify that today probably none of the restaurants is open, because it is domingo (Sunday in English); thus we went back to the bus station and in a small kiosk bought some cookies and other snacks more cookies.
Bus ride to the park took around 2 hrs or a bit more. the closer we were the more amazing the scenery was getting. the cliffy mountains, blue lakes, alpacas.. and again so different, so exotic for a Latvian girl.
The long waited trip to the 8th world natural wonder national park of Torres del Paine begun early in the morning of 10-nov-2013, when we got on the bus from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales (248 km, 3.5 hrs). We took J Buses, as apparently they were the partners for our Hospedaje Magenllanes managers.
The landscape along the way was amazing, in the sense different from Latvian - trees that look like they've been stretched to one side
herd of sheep, cows, nandus (that's my guess what the big birds were)
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| sheep |
Arriving in Puerto Natales gave us hope to be able to eat something as we got really hungry. Since we had 2.5hrs till bus to the park, we decided to walk around the town in search for food. we got our backpacks and strolled on the streets. We did not really know which was the right way, thus relying on the luck which kinda failed us as it turned out later. we had been walking in the wrong (away from the city) direction, thus getting tired, and angry as the hunger grew. Since we did not see any restaurant or any other place to eat, we entered the small grocery shop. Unfortunately they did not really sell anything we would be happy to eat. In my broken Spanish i managed to clarify that today probably none of the restaurants is open, because it is domingo (Sunday in English); thus we went back to the bus station and in a small kiosk bought some cookies and other snacks more cookies.
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| the bus station |
Bus ride to the park took around 2 hrs or a bit more. the closer we were the more amazing the scenery was getting. the cliffy mountains, blue lakes, alpacas.. and again so different, so exotic for a Latvian girl.
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| glorious Andes mountains |
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