Reading and Roaming
TORRES DEL PAINE When we last left off, we were waiting for our van at our hotel in Punta Arenas to take us to the Tierra property on the edge of the national park, Torres del Paine. Torres means “towers” and there are three granite peaks that give the park its name of “Towers of …
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PUNTA ARENAS This morning we flew south from Puerto Varas to Punta Arenas. This city is located on a peninsula just north of the Straits of Magellan and is part of Chilean Patagonia. This puts us at one of the southern most points in Chile as the Straits separate Chile from Tierra del Fuego. Going …
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A DAY ON CHILOE It was a brilliantly sunny day with cool crisp air and an occasional band of puffy clouds. We left the hotel just before 8:30 with our good guide Jaime from the day before and a new driver, Javier. After about 45 minutes, we arrived at the coast and the pier …
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ARRIVING IN PUERTO VARAS Yesterday we left Santiago, endured the agony of lines in that airport, and flew to Puerto Montt. Puerto Montt is south of Santiago and is the capital of this state in the Lake District. We were met and driven a short distance to the neighboring town of Puerto Varas (population 44,000) …
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