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A large part of the route from Puerto Natales to Puerto Montt, passes between the spectacular fjords that form the west coast of the lower third of Chile. One stretch of about 14 hours is spent outside the fjords in the open ocean. This is the section after the San Pedro lighthouse, after which…
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2nd January After breakfast, we drove to Lavados de autos De Agostini at the periphery of town for a car wash and valet. After the long drive, the car was quite dirty and dusty, inside and outside. Luis at the Lavados did a stellar job, jet washing the dust and grime off and a…
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Jorge the owner of the Hotel was at the reception when we returned from the Torres tour. “Would you like to join us for New Years Eve Dinner” he asked.. “It is not anything big or fancy, but just a small group of guests bringing in the New Year. We will start around 9.30”. We…
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(31/12/2025). Otherwise known as “Towers of Paine” derives it’s name form the three dramatic granite peaks which tower in the Southern Chilean Patagonia National Park along with the Cuernos del Paine (Horns of Paine). It is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, with turquoise lakes and glaciers and trekking routes. Our whole Patagonian adventure had started…
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(December 30th) This was the final stretch of our driving route and the last full day of driving.. Andres had given us some advice on this stretch: “ “Important when traveling from Torres del Paine to Calafate, or vice versa: Avoid in Argentina the ruta 7 (red color) which seems shorter, but is in…
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There was a long queue for gasoline at the only gas station (YPF) in El Chalten just outside the town in the morning and we had to wait about 30 minutes. We realised that we should have filled up the day before in the evening when it was quiet. The weather had changed by…
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28th December 2025: Siddharth’s 2nd Birthday. We were keen to speak to him and wish him before we left the Estancia, however he was having his late morning sleep. Hence we drove to Gubernador Gregores (GG) to fill gasoline as after GG the next opportunity for refuelling was only at El Chalten. He came…
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Sheila’s take: After a brief handshake he said ‘Can you pull my car, it’s not starting’! That was the start of a very unique hard to describe, 2 days at the Estancia. So whilst Suresh (Titus) was pulling his car, Marc-Antoine, who by the way is French, decided that I ‘Madame’ would be better…
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Los Antiguos is a small town at the border of Argentina, just 5 km after the Argentinian border post. We had booked to stay at “Ayres del Lago” a kind of service apartment with several rooms and a lounge and a little kitchen area, just outside the town, and close to Lago Buenos Aires,…
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We left Puerto Rio Tranquilo on Christmas Day and we followed the route around the extremely large and beautiful turquoise lake Carrera Grande which in Argentina becomes the Lago Buenos Aires towards Los Antiguos. There was another rainbow over Rio Tranquilo as we left. This was one of or probably the only Christmas Day…