We spent another day driving. We drove from Puerto Natales back to Torres Del Paine after a late breakfast(8am!!) and checking out of our hotel.
We took a slightly different route and visited Laguna Azul first where we saw Guanaco in front of the lake and snowy mountain peaks. It was a bit windy but there was a very short time when we could barely see the top of the towers(the famous three peaks in Torres Del Paine). This is the area we were heading to yesterday when we turned around because we were worried about running out of gas.
After that we drove a slightly different route out of the park so that we could pass by Laguna Ameraga. It was a very pretty mint green lake but the best part is that there were lots of cars parked with people with big cameras all pointing in the same direction. And, yes indeed, they were all watching a puma. After a bit, we were able to barely see the puma with our camera. For sure a highlight of the day even tho it was quite far away.
We had planned to visit Milonga Cave where there was a skeleton of a mammoth sloth and bones of other mega fauna but when we got to the junction it was already 3pm and we decided we’d just continue down the road to Punta Arenas. We didn’t want to get in too late.
We were disappointed there were no condors when we got to the mountain where we saw 6 or 7 condors the day before yesterday. We did see the flamingos and guanacos again.
On the way to Punta Arenas, we got the very sad news that Jennifer, a very close friend of 20+ years, passed away today.
