Intermezzo : Mate
Un dicho de Patagonia: “Quien se apura, pierde el tiempo…”
Category: South America
Along the glacier fields of Patagonia
When we arrive in El Calafate we search a nice camping spot near the town, go shopping and book a trip to the world famous ‘Perito Moreno Glacier’ for the next morning.
Thereafter we want to visit the flamingo bay at the lake, but along the road we pass a small museum where we spent all our time. A couple of dinosaur skeletons and typical Patagonian history keep our attention for a while. In the meantime we also enjoy the book works of a photographer in Argentina.
In town there are that evening some festivities, we pass along but too loud music and a crowd of people can’t keep our attention for long…
To ‘Ultima Esperanza’
After a 30 hour boat trip, with some whales in the channels and too few food in the cafeteria for 80 persons, we arrive in Punta Arenas. A thriving city near the Strait of Magellan. From here we have left the Isles at World’s end – Tierra del Fuego, Isla Navarino, Isla Hornos and numerous other ones.
For us the Punta is just a transport hub to the nearby Puerto Natales, from where we plan a trip in the immense famous ‘Parque Nacional de Torres del Paine’, where nearly 155000 tourists yearly pay tribute to the ‘Paine Towers’. A rock formation famous for it’s changing colours at sunrise.
Sailing Cabo de Hornos
Vrijdag, 31 januari 2014
Vandaag om 12u maken we de overtocht met de boot van Ushuaia in Argentinië naar Puerto Navarino in Chile en dan verder met een busje tot Puerto Williams op Isla Navarino. Blijkbaar kon men gisteren de overtocht niet maken door de hevige wind en zijn er vandaag dus meerdere overtochten. Wij vonden dat zeker geen probleem want zo konden we wat langer uitslapen en op ons gemak inkopen doen.
The beaver walk in Tierra del Fuego
Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego… Landing there has something, since the end of the airstrip ends literally in the sea. An applicable situation at the so-called end of the world town. It is indeed the last city of Argentine, but in Chile there are some more ‘last towns’. They even try to steal the title from each other.
On the Road 
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