Hahaaa! Down to Torres del Paine national park was our next plan. I won’t go into detail because I think it is quite boring for you to read all scientifically details about every single of the nine days we spent in the park. It just was awesome! We did the whole circle with all the small extra paths and walked all in all around 125 km. The backpacks were not that heavy with all the food because we could leave some unnecessary stuff back. I have to emphasise our perfect planning because of not being here in high season. Our path is the longer one and not many people walk this whole route but in high season they told us, there are like 80 campers on one camp site. What?!?! Impossible. There are only small spots where you can put a few tents. I can not imagine so many people rushing these tiny spots. We had luck and even walked a few days without meeting anybody but once we met someone it was even better! The few people we met were just supercool. First of all we started with Fabian, a German teacher, somewhat 29 or something. Later on we met small groups of people from USA and Canada and I have to say that this changed my view of northern American guys completely! They all were so kind and nice, lovely and funny, seldom met so nice North Americans! Now I have all necessary contacts to start a huge USA road trip
Especially with Sam, Michael and Jacob it was really cool as we spent the last four days of the hike when we arrived at the southern part of the park. They are young exchange students in Valparaiso, came here three weeks ago and gave us fresh garlic for every diner!!! Wahoooooo, this is love baby!
Daniel is a small fool sometimes, or even many times … he forgot to bring a book to his trip and is totally dependent from his mobile phone which he uses to listen to audio books. Ok, now imagine what this means on a 9 day trip … the battery does not last that long and he can get really boring without anything to spend time on, really annoyingly boring. I listen to audio books as well BUT I have a tiny solar charger for my phone AND the coolest Bill Bryson’s backup book ever. By the way, Hatty Potter V is amazing! So, it was nice all in all, there are some pictures listed with this post. We arrived in Puerto Natales which has nothing to show to you and continued directly to Punta Arenas where we found Anibal, a supermegacool couch hoster. Yeah, this Couchsurfing thing again … it is soooo great! We are here together with an Italian guy, cook together, walk through the city, watch videos and have a nice time. Anibal is 39, has his own hardware oriented computer business and currently builds up a new tourist business. He organises motorbike tours through Patagonia. You can come here and get a fully equipped new BMW motorbike and ride your soul off with some friends in the vast nowhere for some weeks. There is a short promotion video on Youtube and I recommend watching it! This video covers a lot what I spoke about in my last post. Beautiful pictures of southern Patagonia, filmed somewhere between El Chaltén and Punta Arenas in the Argentinean an Chilean Pampa, Torres del Paine and other nice spots and at least the sound track is worth watching it! So go ahead in full screen and high quality mode.
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