Greetings All
I hope everyone had a festive New Year celebration, as I said in my previous post we had something of a quiet New Years eve and speaking to other travellers they also experienced something similar in the city where they were.
Anyway the good news is I have a shiny new credit card, I don’t know what part of South America they were originally trying to deliver it but after more long phone calls to Mastercard and Fedex (Skype is wonderful) I changed the delivery address to my new hotel and then two later it turned up at the old hotel.
Communication is a wonderful thing.
Armed with my new card I can start the journey north. The original cunning plan was to go to the Torres del Paine National park via Puerto Natales to see the spectacular eroded mountains in the park and that was about all I could do as most of the other places in the park are only accessible on multi day hiking trips and I did not feel like taking Kitty in my backpack. The photo below shows the mascot for Puerto Natales, I have no idea what it is, how big it is or even if it exists today. All I know is that it was everywhere around the town and if it was life size I didn’t want to meet it on dark night (or even a well lit day).
The mascot for Puerto Natales