Cerro Castillo and a glimpse of Torres del Paine
I’ll be back (hopefully with better weather)!
To Puerto Natales
Never met them, but I wonder where „Jules & Nikky“ are on their road.
Puerto Natales will be the most southern point for my bike since the patagonian wind changed my plans of cycling down to Ushuaia.
So as all the locals I went to see the „Carrera“ on the saturday afternoon. Seemed to me that everything with 4 wheels could take part. But there is a system of different categories in the 3 horas de Puerto Natales
An intersting history has the Frigorifico Bories and (amongst other) a nicely restored ammonia compressor from 1913 in the Museum.
Taking the easy way for a glimpse into the Parque Nacional Bernardo O’Higgins.
Punta Arenas
No way arount him here; he’s everywhere: Fernando de Magallanes
King Penguins near Porvenir
A cinema for 460 people in a village with about 700 inhabitants: Cerro Sombrero
Ushuaia
Back in Argentina
The conflict from 1982 with Great Britain about the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is still very present here. And on the argentinian maps the „Malvinas“ are argentinian territory. 2011 with the Ley Gaucho Rivero this conflict had some headlines in the news since two cruse ships sailing under the flag of Bermuda and Bahamas (former british colonies) were not allowed to moor in the port of Ushuaia.
„Ruta 3“ sure looks different in the last kilometres than it did in Trelew where I first cycled on this road. Since my bike has „holidays“ in Puerto Natales, on the road with a rental bike.
Question: Is there a predominant wind direction??
Lago Escondido
Since I just got a glimpse of this nice lake on the bus trip fromm Punta Arenas to Ushuaia, I had to come back by bike to see this beautiful blue lake for a bit longer.
The Islands in the Beagle Channel
A nice way to get a closer view of the islands in the Beagle Channel around Ushuaia. Only a little wind, so not much sailing but also the predicted rain came later…
