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Monday, May 12, 2008 | Patagonia, Chile
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City Tour for Punta Arenas

City Tour for Punta Arenas Always the exit is from the place of housing, beginning the tour for the principal avenues of Punta Arenas coming to a viewing-point from where there is obtained a beautiful sight of the city and the Strait of Magellan, then there is visited the Regional Museum that contains an interesting ethnographic and anthropologic sample of the zone, besides a good exhibition on the flora and fauna. Later there crosses the Institute of the Patagonia located in the km 3,5 north, where there appears the history of the development of the region, being the last stop of the tour the Plaza Muñoz Gamero.



Towers of the Paine, tour unforgiving
The regular excursions to the National Park Tower of the Paine go out every day in the morning, with a guide who will understand its language, being the first one he(she) visits the Milodon Cave to know the legendary history, crossing for the cattle stays to come to Hill Castle, Lagoon Is bitter with a beautiful sight Of the Towers of the Paine, Lake Vineshoot, Lake Nordenskjold with a precious(beautiful) sight of the Horns of the Paine, Big Jump of the Paine with its wonderful sight we continue for the Lake Pehoe bordering on the river Paine with its splendid sight to the Clump of the Paine and The Horns not leaving of side and the Lake Grey , That shows in its enormous shores floes parted with the glacier Herd, coming back in the same day to Puerto Natales.


Of return to the past in Fort Bulnes
Bordering on the Strait of Magellan and to only to 58 Kms to the south of Punta Arenas, one finds the Legendary Fort Bulnes, who with the intention of assuring the Chilean sovereignty, the schooner "Ancud" supervised by the sailor Juan Williams, on September 21, 1843, came to these territories initiating at once the construction of the fort. It will be possible observe the church, the jail, the room of the chaplain, wells of water, the polvorín, mail and stables that belonged(concerned) to the first Chilean garrison in a year 1843 that during the tour the fauna and the flora are varied. There are seen such terrestrial birds as the carancho, species of small eaglet or bird of robbery. The loica with its red chest(breast), the thrush, bird of almost the whole Chilean territory.

 

 

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