We got back to Puerto Natales around 11pm last night and I got a room back in Nikos guesthouse where I´d stored my rucksack. I slept well after the Torres del Paine jaunt and today is a fairly laidback day before tomorrows long journey back north. I had a look around Puerto Natales and spent a good deal of time on the blog trying to update it. I ate well.
The weather brightened up here today, warm enough for a t-shirt. The town was very quiet today, very sleepy. It wasn´t until late afternoon that people began to appear on the streets. Puerto Natales isn´t the most attractive of towns by any means. But on a bright sunny day it does have a certain drab appeal (perhaps I´m just glad to be away from the Torres!!). On abright day its buildings look almost quaint. On a wet day they look dreary, windswept and rundown.
I have a bus ticket to Osorno for 7am tomorrow morning. Thats a 36hr bus ride back up into the middle of Chile. Most of the journey, however, will be spent through Argentina as the road network through Chilean Patagonia isn´t complete. I´m glad I´ve seen the Torres del Paine but I´m just as glad to be leaving it. I just didn´t take to it for whatever reason. I now start to head north for Ecuador. I´ll stop off for a couple of days in Pucon but otherwise the trek up through Chile is going to be pretty fast. I´ve spent enough time in the south.
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