Puerto Natales

We arrived in Puerto Natales late on Saturday. Luckily we had made a reservation at a hostel. The only problem was that we had to find it in the dark in a place we´d never seen before. Some pretty dodgey looking people were trying to get us into a taxi, but we were having none of it. They kept telling us that this hostel was miles out of town, and that it would take a long time to walk there. The truth is that it was only a few blocks away, and only tooks us about 5 minuts to walk to.

Once we were settled in at out hostel, we decided to try and check out the night life of this little village. We walked around for a while looking for even one bar. Eventually we stumbled on to some Austrian girls who were in the same situation as us... looking for a drink, but failing to find one. We eventually found one of the two bars in this place, and it turned out to be quite nice. It was an amusing night, because we were speaking german. Something I hadn´t done in a long time.

The next day we had to rent some camping equipment for our treking experience in Torres del Paine. We had a pretty hard time finding anywhere open, as it was a Sunday. There were a couple, but it took us all day to find a reasonably priced one.

We also had to buy some food for what would be a 5 day expedition. Seeing as neither one of us had ever done anything like this before, we didn´t really know what kind of food to take. We bought three kilos of rice, 1.5 kilos of pasta, and lots of canned foods. Basically, there was far too much rice, and the canned stuff was really heavy to have to carry.