Patagonia

Parque Nacional Torres del Paine

A guanaco [type of llama indigenous to S. America] crossing the road on the way into the park.

This is before you even get in!

Jumping for joy inside the park! We took a sort of bus tour for our day in Torres del Paine. Ideally we would have liked to hike more, but we would have seen way less of this huge park and it was great for the little amount of time that we did have. We had two hiking opportunities, which we took advantage of.

A waterfall. The water is that lighter blue because it comes from a glacier, instead of regular lake water.

That is a hotel where it is $1000 a night to stay in! Maybe someday...

The view from where we ate lunch.

In the back left, you can see a glimpse of Glacier Gray. This ice is obviously remnants of that glacier.

Seno Otway Penguin Colony

near Punta Arenas, Chile

Strait of Magellan

On Sunday, our last day, we took a ferry across the Strait of Magellan to the region of Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago at the southernmost tip of S. American mainland (taken straight from Wikipedia). We went to the largest town called Porvenir, which is actually pretty small with not much to do. We did go to a musuem and learned about the Selk'nam indigenous people in Tierra del Fuego, had some delicious king crab in a restaurant and headed back to the ferry!


OY! My Dad leaves for Chile tomorrow and will arrive Wednesday morning! I have to do a final for one class and finish up a few other loose ends in other classes, but I can see the light at the end of the homework tunnel!