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| Lago Llanquihue |
Dee feeding the Llama in Bogota
Friday, January 28, 2011
Update - Pucon, Chile
The blog is suffering given the numerous distractions the Chilean lakes district offers. We've been biking, hiking, and doing our fair share of eating incredible seafood and fresh local produce. Enjoy the latest pictures from our 180km bike ride around beautiful Lago Llanquihue and belated blog updates.
Give Patagonia a chance... Trekking Torres Del Paine
"Misery!" my Mom exclaimed when we described our upcoming week of activity in Southern Patagonia. Hiking the 'circuit' of the Torres Del Paine National Park was the first 'unsupported' hike of this length that we had done. Eight days of food, clothing, a house - well an extremely cramped rental tent -, frankly we were a little apprehensive ourselves as we listened in on a chat our hotel hosted on the eve of our trek.
We wandered down to the waterfront to have our final pre-trek meal at Los Pioneros restaurant. It was a massive feed of incredible seafood soup filled with mussels, scallops and clams combined with a huge filet of sumptuous salmon. The harbor and Andes Mountains framed our window-front table. We contemplated why we'd want to leave this for the rigours of trekking.
We wandered down to the waterfront to have our final pre-trek meal at Los Pioneros restaurant. It was a massive feed of incredible seafood soup filled with mussels, scallops and clams combined with a huge filet of sumptuous salmon. The harbor and Andes Mountains framed our window-front table. We contemplated why we'd want to leave this for the rigours of trekking.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Stowing away
We made our escape from Southern Patagonia on the NaviMag ferry 'cruise'. While not exactly cruise-ship luxury it permitted us a beautiful ride through numerous fjords and close up views of the massive 13000 sq km Patagonia ice field. More importantly we were allowed to flee our captors - over dramatizing to be sure - in Puerto Natales.
As expected we made fast friends on the boat, enjoyed many siestas, survived one wavy night on the high seas of the Pacific, and were entertained by far too many games of NaviMag bingo on our final evening. 1000km and 4 days later we found ourselves in the charming town of Puerto Varas in the Lakes District. By definition still in Patagonia, but a world away.
We will stuff ourselves full of fresh seafood and colorful fruits and vegetables in the coming days.
Enjoy the pictures
As expected we made fast friends on the boat, enjoyed many siestas, survived one wavy night on the high seas of the Pacific, and were entertained by far too many games of NaviMag bingo on our final evening. 1000km and 4 days later we found ourselves in the charming town of Puerto Varas in the Lakes District. By definition still in Patagonia, but a world away.
We will stuff ourselves full of fresh seafood and colorful fruits and vegetables in the coming days.
Enjoy the pictures
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| Escaping Puerto Natales |
Monday, January 17, 2011
This is getting interesting...
Hola Chicos,
We find ourselves in a middle of a pretty nasty strike involving numerous unions - angry groups of like minded people anyway - in the Southwestern corner of the Chilean Patagonia. We are safe, fed, and watered although the wine selection is lacking.
With all roads blocked in and out of the city of Puerto Natales for the foreseeable future we have elected to hopefully board a cargo ship 'cruise' in the hopes of moving ourselves north of the conflict, taking in some great scenery at the same time. We will post a summary of our amazing trek in the Torres Del Paine park shortly but in the meanwhile enjoy the pictoral essay.
We find ourselves in a middle of a pretty nasty strike involving numerous unions - angry groups of like minded people anyway - in the Southwestern corner of the Chilean Patagonia. We are safe, fed, and watered although the wine selection is lacking.
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| Preparing for the evacuation of the Turistas |
With all roads blocked in and out of the city of Puerto Natales for the foreseeable future we have elected to hopefully board a cargo ship 'cruise' in the hopes of moving ourselves north of the conflict, taking in some great scenery at the same time. We will post a summary of our amazing trek in the Torres Del Paine park shortly but in the meanwhile enjoy the pictoral essay.
Friday, January 7, 2011
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