Country #3 Chile 🇨🇱
Our 3am flight to Chile dropped us off in Punta Arenas where we hopped straight on the 2 hr bus to Puerto Natales for the start of our Patagonia adventure. When you’re traveling full time like we’ve been you often book stuff last minute, so our best accommodation option was staying with a family who rents out tent spaces in their backyard to travelers. They have bathrooms, an outdoor kitchen and have fires every night. It ended up actually working out really well, we met some cool people and it was a great home base to explore Torres del Paine National Park. We also couldn’t find any rental cars last minute, which we’d say is the best way to get around with everything being so spread out, so we had to familiarize ourselves with the buses. Our first day we booked a tour to take us into the park so we could get a lay of the land. It was cheap and a nice way to see this massive park, but there was no hiking, and that’s what we came for… So with our newfound knowledge (and help from our host who’s a park ranger) we figured out how to get to the famous Base del Torres hike (the mountain on their currency) and went for it. It was a full day adventure and we were tired by the end but loved it. We had one more day left and really wanted to figure out how to get to the more remote part of the park with the bus. Caroline decided to smooth talk the driver and he was so nice to keep driving just us to the start of the Condor hike, he did say we’d have to walk back to the actual bus stop on the return, which was totally fine. Except it started raining and getting super windy (typical patagonia weather which we hadn’t experienced yet) so naturally Dylan starts trying to hitchhike. Luckily this couple from Washington picked us up and dropped us off at the bus stop. We made it back in time for a camp fire and woke up the next morning to take on Country #4
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