Puerto Natales

We got the bus from Punta Arenas to Puerto Natales around 1100. It was a pretty short bus compared to other buses we've had throughout the trip.

Once we got to Puerto Natales, we went to walk to the hostel, but a case of mistaken location, meant we walked about 20 minutes to the wrong place. We discovered that we actually walked past our hostel 15 minutes prior 🤦‍♀️. We walked the 15 minutes back, checked in, and started making sure everything admin wise was sorted before we started the trek tomorrow.

After double checking everything and downloading all necessary documents, we went out into town to get food supplies for the trek. Surprisingly, there weren't many hiking/camping stores. We ended up just looking at a couple of grocery stores and buying things like oats for oatmeal in the morning, soup and instant noodles to share for lunches, and we did find some wet food packets and flameless heaters to share for dinner with some instant mashed potatoes. Hopefully each camp has hot water because that's what we will need to cook everything!

Once we got back to the hostel, we made some dinner and then it was time to get packing. Somehow, we squeezed all our spare stuff into the two smaller bags, although one looks more like a big bag now... And we packed our big bags with the items for the trek. We went to bed around midnight, which is later than planned, but hopefully an earlier night (albeit camping) is on the cards for tomorrow.Read more