Showing posts with label Puerto Montt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puerto Montt. Show all posts

Thursday, March 20, 2014

WITH NAVIMAG through the patagonian fjords

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The day for the ferryboat trip to Patagonia finally arrived. Navimag is the company offering the trips sailing from Puerto Montt to Puerto Natales. One characteristic of this trip is that it runs once a week and is sold out long before departure date. All these made it a sort of milestone in my schedule as missing the date would mean waiting one week. The only other transportation mean by land between the two cities is 2.317km long and requires travelling through argentinean roads. 
 
Boarding was done around 1am on Sunday 16th, with almost 2 days delay. The ship was not the one initially planned and had less cabins, but many passengers with a tight schedule cancelled their reservations after the delay so that the reduced cabin offer was not a problem; and the cabins were better. We were around 30 passengers on the boat.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

PUERTO MONTT: bajo el cielo azul ...

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Puerto Montt is a port city in southern Chile that travellers often use as springboard for further trips to Patagonian. In the economical terms, the increased number of salmon farms in the region has helped to bring Puerto Montt to a small boom.

Puerto Montt is also the name of a song the uruguayan band Los Iracundos 
made inmortal in the late 60's. The song is considered the "unofficial" city's anthem. It talks about a couple that is sitting "frente al mar" (at the sea front) just as shown by a huge monument that was build to celebrate it. And continues "bajo el cielo azul" (under the blue sky); it seems the city planners decided to ignore this part of the lyrics.