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Our next destination is probably the most famous national park in Chile, the “Torres del Paine”. For the approximately 800 km from Ushuaia to its starting point Puerto Natales we need almost two full days. This is partly due to our unwillingness to drive 800 km in one day, but also due to the endlessly tough border crossing from Argentina back to Chile. After we no longer make it across the border on the first evening due to the spontaneous additional hike in Ushuaia, we spend the first night about half an hour before the border on an almost lonely and beautiful beach, and early next morning at the border to be. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work quite so well. We catch a coach in front of us and of course its entire contents have to go to the same exit and entry desks as we do. In addition, everything is a bit chaotic and we are queuing twice at the wrong line. The whole thing costs us a good 2 hours, but since this will not be the last step, we may now at least know what to do next time. In addition, we take two young hitchhikers along on the route between the two borders, who help us a little with our Spanish lessons (we spend the driving days partly with a small Spanish course).
Due to the waiting at the border it is late afternoon until we catch the ferry back to the mainland and we spend another night in the Patagonian “Pampa” near Rio Verde with a beautiful view of the fjord and enjoy an almost two-hour sunset. We also get to know two Chileans at our rest area, who are currently on the last stage of their four-week bike tour to Punta Arenas. We not only initiate them into the social habits of drinking mate, but also invite them to couch surfing when we make it to Puerto Montt at some point. Let’s see if it works…
Because of the many chats with the two, it gets really late until we get to bed and we only make it to Puerto Natales in the early afternoon, where we stock up on information and food in the national park for the next 3-4 days. In Torres (as everyone calls the park here) we spend our next night after an idyllic dinner at Lago del Toro and plan some hikes for the next few days …