Category: Topside nature

After enjoying our Santiago stay, we hired a car and drove south to the Lake District. It is nearly 800km from Santiago to Pucon and we stoppd for the night at Salto del Laja. Hotel Salto del Laja is located right next to the waterfalls and one can sit on a balcony and watch the…

After our wonderings iin southern Patagonia, we flew over to a completely different climate and landscape of Atacama desert. We flew from Puerto Natales to Santiago and then connected to a flight to Calama. Calama is a significant mining town. Chuquicamata copper mine is the largest open pit copper mine in the world in terms…

After our hiking adventures in Torres del Paine in Chile and around Mount Fitz Roy in Argentina, we were back to Puerto Natales to start exploring Patagonia by sea. We joined a 5 day 4 nights cruise operated by Skorpios around fjords and glaciers of Souther Patagonia Ice field. Before getting on the ship we…

After the half day penguin tour in Punta Arenas, we picked up our rental car, stocked up in the supermarket and headed to Torres Del Paine National Park. All the research we did indicated that roads are paved, or a very good gravel when inside of the park. We hired a small two wheel drive,…

In the morning of our fourth and last full day in Torres del Paine we decided to drive around to the other side of the park to Laguna Azul and search for wild life on the way. The sun was shining the clouds were mostly high. We started from Rio Serrano and as we drove…

After our two days of hiking to Condor and Cuernos lookouts and full day 20km Torres base, it was time to let our legs rest a little bit. On our third day we headed to Lago Grey and its glacier. The boat tour is about 3 hours and departs from the beautiful Lago Grey hotel.…

On our second day in Torres del Paine we headed out early to do the Torres base hike. The trailhead for this hike is on the other side of the park closer to the Laguna Amarga entrance gate. As we passed our park entrance gate and were driving to the park we saw guanacos in…

In the morning we had a great breakfast at our hotel in Rio Serrano and went to the Torres Del Paine to hike. We reached the entrance in about 5 minutes. Scanned in with our multi-day passes that we bought online on the official site and headed in. We first went up to Condor lookout.…

As we started our flight from Santiago towards Punta Arenas, clouds cleared and we were able to see Patagonian landscape from above including Fitz Roy mountain range and glaciers around it. We set on the left side of the plane (A window). As we got closer to Punta Arenas scenery changed and it was all…

We crossed into Argentina by car at Dorotea border crossing coming from Torres del Paine National Park in Chile in December 2024 and headed for El Calafate and El Chalten for more hiking. The border crossing was pretty straightforward. Car rental company in Chile arranged all the documents to take the car over the border…