Day 0. Puerto Natales – Torres del Paine Campamento Centrale. I have booked the afternoon bus shuttle into the Torres del Paine National park. I am tired, I didn’t sleep well in the hostel and so I sleep in the bus before waking up to a beautiful landscape. At the Laguna Armaga check point we…
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Dientes Circuit & Lago Windhoek. Golden automn in Chile’s southern end. (Part 2)
Day 4. Laguna Escondida -Laguna Rocallosa My tent was OK with the wind. And the rain that started around 3am. At 8am I have a look outside and only see fog and rain. I close my tent quickly again, sleep, read and as I can’t hear any rain anylonger I finally take my breakfast and…
Dientes Circuit & Lago Windhoek. Golden automn in Chile’s southern end. (Part 1)
Isla Navarino is most famous among hikers for the multi day hike of the Dientes Circuit. The island is opposite of Ushuaia and belongs to Chile. There’s a ferry (or rather water taxi) that takes you for expensive 120 USD from Ushuaia in about 30 minutes to the other side and included is then a…
Tierra del Fuego National Park. 2 days hiking.
From Ushuaia it’s only some 12km to the Fireland National Park. As I came off the ship from my Antarctica cruise much later than expected plus having had to organise a few things, I end up at the road around 2pm. The shuttle bus is so expensive for such a short distance that I decided…
Cerro del Medio. A half day hike from Ushuaia.
Before boarding the ship to Antarctica, I just had to go for a hike before being mainly confined to the sip the next 10 days. In my hiking guide to Patagonia I found one hike that starts right in Ushuaia and is feasible in half a day as I have to board the ship at…
Invercargill to Bluff. This is the end.
Day 133. Invercargill – Bluff. 36km. Total 3000km. I couldn’t sleep much last night. Was I too excited? Very tired I get up at 6am. We want to have enough time to celebrate and start early again. The sun is just coming out as we walk through Invercargill back to the trail. The first 10km are…
Done.
This is the end of the toughest, longest but best journey of my life. 3000km. 133 days. 3 pairs of shoes. At least 100l of mud. Uncountable awesome moments, stunning views, amazing people (including my incredible blog readers). I am proud, happy and sad. A big chapter is over. But: Every ending is the start of something new! More…
Colac Bay to Invercargill. Beach again!
Day 131. Colac Bay – Oreti Beach. 27km. Total 2947km. Today we can take it slowly and start late. We won’t hike too far today and enjoy a lazy breakfast. I am completely out of food now, it’s really time for resupply in Riverton, our lunch stop. From our campsite we walk to the beach,…
Woodlaw Forest to Colac Bay. Back into the bush, mud and a night at a summit.
Day 129. End of Woodlaw Forest – Longwood Summit. 36km. Total 2886km. I love tenting in pine woods. Everything is dry in the morning and quickly packed up. We leave around 7.30am and are soon out of the forest to see the beautiful light just after the sunrise. After some farmland it’s a 3.5km road…
Te Anau to Woodlaw Forest. Heat and sunshine, summer has arrived!
Day 126. Te Anau – Princhester Road – Aparima Hut. 22km. Total 2794km. A beautiful day without any clouds is waiting for us this morning. At 7am we are back at the road, with more hitchhiking luck hopefully. But it takes time. After half an hour a woman in a campervan stops and tells us…
Queenstown to Te Anau. Back into the mud!
Day 121. Queenstown – Taipo Hut. 24km. Total 2700km. Party Queenstown kept me awake during the night with a lot of music and party going on just in front of the YHA, not easy to sleep if you are used to quiet huts in the wilderness! Today we have a shuttle picking us up at…
Roses Hut to Queenstown. Frozen x 3.
Day 119. Roses Hut – Arrowtown. 23km. Total 2648km. Frozen. Today we start a bit later, we will walk through a river and if we start early it will be even colder. Later means actually that we start at 7.30am, seems we are just ready anyway! One more saddle of more than 1200m to…
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