Punta Arenas - Puerto Natales

Once again I´ve had some good fun with the wind, but I promise not to go on about it too much ...

I´ve been on the road for another three days and am now just south of the Torres Del Paine. The road from Punta Arenas has been pretty flat with very long and demoralising straight sections, where I needed 2 meals to get to the end of. On the first day I biked past mine fields and ended the day camping in what seemed to be a cattle pen. This was next to an arena in the first settlement 100km north along the road (I know it sounds like a funny place to sleep but when the winds are up to 100km/hr, anywhere sheltered will do and this was the first structure/shelter in the 100km since Punta Arenas). As I was falling to sleep the thought crossed my mind that the arena was a bullfighting ring and I wondered if they were going to release a psychotic bull into my bedroom first thing in the morning. Luckily they didn´t.

The last couple of days through the pampas have also been windy and flat but beautifully desolate. I arrived in Puerto Natales early this afternoon and I´m hoping to set out to Torres Del Paine, 150km north, tomorrow.