Love❤️

Even though it’s freezing cold (wintertime, at the bottom of the world, I guess it would be!) From Santiago (which is in the middle of Chile, north to south, it is over a three hour flight from Punta Arenas! Punta Arenas is the southernmost city in the world. From there, I stayed one night, and I had to take buses back north, to Puerto Natales, and then into Torres del Paine National Park. The buses were another full day of travel. Not easy to get to, but totally worth it. I was staying at a hotel inside the park, on Lake Pehoe (pronounced: pay-way). I should’ve rented a car because I didn’t get to see much of the park. Because it’s out of season, all of the tour operators are closed. So, I decided to do two different hikes that I could walk to from the hotel. One was called “Mirador Los Cuernos”, which included an impressive waterfall, and the other I can’t remember – it was something like “Condor’s Nest”. I will simply put post pictures – what a remarkable place☺️

view from plane, to Punta Arenas

moving hundreds of cows to..? 

patagonia cows – the same as other cows, only colder

bagualero!

this road is called “ruta del fin del mundo” = “route to the end of the world”

guanaco

view of lake pehoe from my room

view of mountains from hotel restaurant

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cuernos del paine mountains: view from hotel

pano from bridge to hotel

shore

the bridge to the hotel, which is in on an island on the Lake Pehoe

partial granite

beautiful

from the road

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torres del paine

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lake pano

lake pano 2

nice walk

fog!

couldn’t see anything

creepy mountain making itself known

so creepy

beach sand

crested caracara

Next up: Tierra del Fuego (almost Antarctica😂)