Lazy rainy days
Our first stop after the park was in Puerto Natales at a place called Hostel Dos Lagunas. Beautiful clean rooms with a very friendly and attentive owner who prepared a good breakfast of bacon and eggs and the best muffins you can imagine. This is in stark contrast to other breakfasts we have had in Chile - a double room was CH$18000 (about US$35) which was above our budget, so we could only stay for one night. The owner speaks good English and can be contacted at doslagunas@hotmail.com.
We then moved round the corner to a warm family run hostel (Residencial Mvono) with a double room for about US$23 including breakfast and kitchen access. Here we stayed for 5 nights waiting for the Navimag ferry that departs from Puerto Natales every Friday morning for Puerto Montt, a 1000km journey through fjords and channels.
The last few days were raining, so we spent lots of time chatting to friends and family on the web and updating our site.
Culture shock: Bread and rolls are very dense and are priced by weight; Bread is only toasted on one side; The front door of our hostel is opened from the 2nd storey with the use of a string that is attached to the latch; We witnessed two police officers taking statements from people after a window of their shop was broken (presumably a break-in). The whole area was cordoned off.
We then moved round the corner to a warm family run hostel (Residencial Mvono) with a double room for about US$23 including breakfast and kitchen access. Here we stayed for 5 nights waiting for the Navimag ferry that departs from Puerto Natales every Friday morning for Puerto Montt, a 1000km journey through fjords and channels.
The last few days were raining, so we spent lots of time chatting to friends and family on the web and updating our site.
Culture shock: Bread and rolls are very dense and are priced by weight; Bread is only toasted on one side; The front door of our hostel is opened from the 2nd storey with the use of a string that is attached to the latch; We witnessed two police officers taking statements from people after a window of their shop was broken (presumably a break-in). The whole area was cordoned off.
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