• 19 To Chile and W Walk

    25 November 2023, Chili ⋅ 🌬 13 °C

    A good nights sleep , great clouds last night too ! Weather looking good for the start . Our friends’ plans seem to have come through and they will leave after the walk to bus to the final stop to get their trip to Antarctica.
    Yesterday was a great day but today is going the judged on border crossing time !
    What are those men looking for in that field on the middle of nowhere ?
    Argentina is a waiting game of 2 hours ! That was the Easy bit and then Chile takes another 2 Hrs !
    We reach Puerto Natales by 5 pm and tomorrow it’s the W !
    Sunny but bloody windy ! Four nights , five days walking !
    Forest lose unfortunately !
    And Rory is ready !

    Those weird statues from town ? The Selk'nam, also known as the Onawo or Ona people,are an indigenous people in the Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile, including the Tierra del Fuego islands. They were one of the last native groups in South America to be encountered by migrant Europeans in the late 19th century. In the mid-19th century, there were about 4000 Selk'nam; by 1919 there were 297, and by 1930 just over 100.
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