{"id":683,"date":"2010-03-25T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2010-03-24T21:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:30:29","slug":"luke-around-the-world-20100126-punta-arenas-chile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/683","title":{"rendered":"Luke Around The World – 20100126 – Punta Arenas, Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Punta Arenas is the first stop on my first new trip of 2010. It’s a city I’ve visited a few times before, so know the place quite well. If you want to see southern Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, or take a cruise of flight to Antarctica, this will probably be your base. I was here for two days this visit.
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\nFlying in to Puerto Montt, I saw the Osorno Volcano from the air. This iPhone photo doesn’t do it justice, but it was pretty spectacular.
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\nPunta Arenas is made up of many colorful buildings, which taken as a whole are pretty, though individually quite scruffy.
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\nAnother view from the top of the hill above the city center. The people pictured were staying at the nearby hostel.
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\nAs I wasn’t paying for my own accommodation, I was put up in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos (Cape Horn) which is one of the largest buildings in the city.
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\nThe new hotel and casino on the sea front.
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\nThere’s now easy access to the beach.
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\nThe newly refurbished seafront. In a year this will probably be completed and look much nicer. It’s already a huge step up from how it looked two years ago.
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\nBirds on one of the old piers.
\n\"Birds<\/p>\n

\nThe Municipal Cemetery.
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\nWalk Upright part 2.
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\nMy starter at dinner. This beef tasted really, really good.
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\nOne of the hostels has sign posts pointing to other cities (photo from 2009 trip).
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\nMore signs pointing to other cities (photo from 2009 trip).
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\nInteresting paintwork on a building on the sea front (photo from 2007 trip).
\n\"Interesting<\/p>\n

\nNext destination: Falkland Islands. Or maybe Montevideo, Uruguay.<\/p>\n

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