Reisebericht Patagonien - 10. Tag 1/12/2010 Punta Arenas I got up at 6 clock already, although it should always be the first 7:30 clock breakfast. But I had to urgently go to the toilet and the hotel is locked at night. Fortunately, the owner finally came 6:20 clock and has caught up. My life * lol * While all other gradually crept out of their cabins were, I've helped prepare Mark for breakfast. I had just finished building all the tables and chairs, as one of the sloth suddenly the breakfast buffet has built up oO I thought, I do not look done right * laughs * But just always wonder again: P Although it has all been in the wrong place and I was able to correct anything, lest Markus complaining. But hey, after all, was to help the approach to there ^ ^
Kindly, Manfred came later and said we can have breakfast at the hotel because it is too cold outside. . Toll: (All for nothing built. (So cold and windy, I found it did not, but what Manfred says is law, and a breakfast in the warmth is not so wrong;) When we were ready to break down, had we have eternal time before departure. Were we on the road ridden when suddenly a Gaucho and his dogs came. Helmar to Sabine, who was also just angetrottelt: "Sabine, here is a gaucho who wants to be photographed". Barely finished saying, Sabine runs by a tarantula her razor behind the gaucho. We have, of course, cheered beautiful and thought eh, she can not manage that. Anyone else would have long since given up, but she runs and runs and has hinterhergeschrien him, he should stop * laughs * And hey, he has even heard it and came back riding, so she could take her photo. Yes, persistence is rewarded from time to time just yet ^ ^ Oh Sabine ... we constantly had to laugh because of it * g *
Today was not the trip too long. But it went on endless dirt roads. After 3 hours drive suddenly stopped this endless shaking. Oh, asphalt road oO * lol * When we have approached Punta Arenas, we asked Manfred if we notice something. Of course, it has become to us only become aware of when he told us. We traveled since our arrival in Chile hundreds of miles and there was not a single village. The vastness of Patagonia is truly gigantic. The whole country consists only of huge Estancias and their flocks of sheep. And the landscape changes too little. All barren and flat. To my mind a very tedious landscape, if you sit for hours in the bus.
In Punta Arenas, there is unfortunately no camping, so we had to stay in hostels. Each in shared room: P My dad still has torn jokes that he determined the suite gets * laughs * We were divided into three hostels. And lo and behold, my parents and I actually had the "suite": P At least we had a private bathroom. The other was only on the shared 'm transition.
afternoon was first 'ne guide by 's Museum. And that's where we are the museum's total freaks ... Well, Manfred has thankfully brief and after an hour ago that we were through. Then we were finally able to explore the city on your own. Punta Arenas is some bit messy, which mainly is due to the many construction sites. But the center may well be proud. Especially the central square where the monument has Magellan 's great flair. Everywhere souvenir sellers, street musicians play the pan flute and many benches that invite you to stay:) I also liked the many small streets with colorful houses. And I have not even mentioned ... in Argentina and Chile, it is teeming with dogs .. Some of this can be really aggressive. If yes sometimes not at my case. But the Chilean dogs were okay;) The hung one at least not constantly on the leg as the Argentine * g *
The largest church in Punta Arenas
The trademark
Punta Arenas', the many colorful and unusual houses
The Pink Panther dustbin, I found so stylish mega times * laugh *
souvenir sellers and street musicians on the Magellan monument
of that is that the Chileans are much nicer than the Argentines. If you want to go to an Argentine town on the road, do not bother to look twice to the right and left, because the Argentines not slow down. In Buenos Aires, on average eight people die daily because they get hit. Chileans are not as extreme in this respect. The slow, even for tourism * g * Also, the Chileans much more helpful if you ask them something. Yes, a nice little people that lived there at the edge of the earth:) I have totally closed the Chileans in my little heart:)
Speaking ... "Chile" is a derivation of the word "chili" in the Quechua language and means "where the world is over." Chile does so in a figurative sense "country on the edge of the earth." I find the name very fitting ^ ^ And Punta Arenas is the southernmost city of Chile, which can be reached by land. I liked it because total. My mother said though, the city is nothing special, but I found, Punta Arenas had his own charm:)
The weather in Patagonia is known for the way that it can change within minutes. I never wanted to believe it until I got it in Punta Arenas himself experienced. Time the sun shines and it's totally warm and calm, then it blows again, the next minute it's raining and between it begins sometimes easy to hail from. These weather phenomena can be within observed by a good 10 minutes. Sounds crass, but really Sun My mother was eventually totally annoyed by the constant up and sunglasses * laughs * And I have to sell sooner or later abandoned, to open in good weather my jacket, because it closes again before the next moment, when the icy wind again blowing through the streets.