Back in Chile

Holaholaaaa!

Autumn/winter is here, again.. Piss cold here in south of Patagonia, windy as hell and some rain. No snow atleast yet =)  In Argenitnan side we made it to Bariloche, did a three-day hike in the mountains sleeping in refugios, and saw some truly amazing mountain sceneries. The paths were just terrible, but the climbing on the rocks on all four and sliding down ridges of loose sand, stones and gravel were worth it when seeing the Andes all the way to Chilean side.

From Bariloche we took the bus to El Chalten, and we chose the "scenery route" on the road number 40 - my ass i say! Two days of pampa, some lost sheeps, occasional horses, ñandus and guanacos, and then thats it. Truly nobody living there! But El Chalten itself was nice little village in the middle of the national park, from where we had a direct access to nice paths and great hikes. We spent night in the mountains freezing our asses off, but the Fitz Roy and glaciers were worth it definitely!

From there we got to El Calafate, just a horrible tourist city which only thing to do was the Perito Moreno Glacier - in all possible ways. Most of them seemed to be just huuuuuge tourist ripping off traps, so we just shared a taxi with one french couple and went to have a look at the glacier. Quite amazing, nothing ive seen before.

And after hard decision making and joopaseipas we decided to skip Torres del Paine. Hiking we have now done in all possible mountain areas, and it especially annoyed us that you end up paying heaps of money here and there just so that you can go walking in their national park, cook you own food and do camping. So no Torres del Paine for us - this time atleast =) Still we got back to Chilean side to Puerto Natales, spent there one day, and yesterday we got to Punta Arenas, the capital of Patagonia. This city seems like a funny place, and tomorrow we will catch a bus from here to Rio Gallegos in Argentina, from where we have a flight on Monday to Buenos Aires and from there to Rio de Janeiro! So be aware all Brasileños, Maija and Bruno are on their way =)

So it seems that our round the world trip is getting close to its end, and in three days we will be in Rio. Well, anyways before coming back to the Finnish spring we will have a couple of weeks to spend in Rio, from which the first week Niina and Toffe will be sleeping at hostel Goyena aswell =) Lets see what nice excursions we will do from there then. Iguassu falls we ended up now skipping, since it also smells like another Perito Moreno tourist trap. The falls them selves must be really spectacular, but all the lovely looking places with easy access are filled with rich and fat European and American tourists, and thats just horrible. I think i can afford leaving those places to them..

Butbut, now we'd better get to the town and find some nice brunch from somewhere. Big hugs and kisses to you all, and seeya super soon!

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