Puerto Natales is a transition place for people both arriving and leaving Chilean Patagonia and it's national parks. The local people is well aware of that. They adopted almost all their businesses to this mere fact and you can find here any type of service they imagine a trekker might ever need.

We arrived there on January 22nd, 2006 from Punta Arenas and, after visiting Torres del Paine NP, we left on January 30th to Argentina. To arrive from Punta Arenas by bus, it took more than 3 hours. To get from there to El Calafate in ... (more)