Patagonia
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Back from Torres del Paine – Hiking the Circuit + “W” in 5 days
So, I went to Torres del Paine thinking i’ll do the “W” and maybe, just maybe i’ll do the “circuito”, which normally takes 8 days. I ended up finishing the full circuito + w in 5 days (including today) and feel fantastic, going through the 2nd liter of chocolate milk now, thus granting myself this…
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Villa O’Higgins. End of Carretera Austral. On to Arrrgentina.
Yesterday arrived in time to Villa O’Higgins’ Fiesta Costumbrista – a village festival where gauchos were chasing and taming horses. Kind of a strange tradition. Then had some delicious goat meat. At night we danced with the locals. This is the end of Carretera Austral. Tomorrow I am taking a ferry across Lago O’Higgins to Candelaria…
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Road to Rahul Marin Balmaceda and Cagalandia
The road to Cagalandia from Puerto Montt to Rahul Marin (by the way the name has a pretty cool story, even though if you speak spanish you know the root of the word is a bit offensive)
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Back to civilization
I’m back alive and refreshed. On Feb 10th I left Cagalandia, a remote and beautiful land of Thomas Verster near Raul Marin Balmaceda in northern Patagonia. Adios Cagalandia! I spent 2 weeks there with another volunteer (Bjorn from Holland who is going to stay there for a while to help Thomas build a house) and…