After Torres del Paine, we continued further south yet. First we spent a little time in Puerto Natales. We went to La Cueva del Milodón. Puerto Natales, before becoming the launching point for treks to Torres del Paine, was famous because in 1895 Hermann Eberhard found the remains of a giant ground sloth or mylodon. Later in this caves, remains from other prehistorical animals and evidence of early humans were discovered as well.
We continued to Punta Arenas, said our good-byes to Tommy, Sarah, and Edmundo, then Colin, Eva, and I moved on towards Ushuaia. We left the mainland to the island of Tierra del Fuego and crossed over from Chile to Argentina.
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| Camping in Ushuaia. |
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| Just shy of 5000 km to the Bolivian border. |
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| Other than tourism, Ushuaia has a big industry of King Crab fishing. |
After Ushuaia, we again crossed back into Chile to the even more southern island of Isla Navarino. I will cover that in the next blog. From there we flew back to Punta Arenas. The last thing we did before leaving Patagonia was go and see the penguins in Punta Arenas.
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