Puerto Natales, Chile

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Puerto Natales, Ultima Esperanza, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena, Chile.

Artistic painted houses along the streets, friendly hostels, modern cafè owned by creative people and traditional ones where to share an empanadas and a coffee in a friendly enviroment, artisanal shops exposing good quality items and art galleries of photographies and painting tell the story of this vast and remote land…Spending one ore two days in this original town after or before the adventure in the Torres del Paine National Park is the essential to slow down at the Patagonia pace.

““I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.”
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— Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia

Thanks to: Kaluve Hostal

Restaurant Alcazar

Etnia Souvenir Sandwool

Cafe El Gauchito

Cafe Guayoyo

Salt and Flamingoes

laguna chaxa

When I arrived at Laguna Chaxa I felt impressed by the vastness of this place, surrounded just by vulcanoes on the distance, the silence was a big impact on my ears. I couldn’t see properly, the white land of salt reflected so much light on my eyes. The ranger here welcomed us and gave us aknowledges about the place, then we have been free to explore

The only colors visible are blue, white and pink. Few birds around, especially flamingoes of different species, they come here especially to eat. In the water lives the brine shrimp. It’s a special shrimp that is able to live at high altitude, it’s also high in protein so it’s good to give energy to the birds before they migrate to north, but what is curious about them is that they provide the pigment to the flamingoes.

Nazaré, Portugal

Standing on top of the Forte de S. Miguel Arcanjo I stare to the horizon line over the ocean while seagulls fly around my head between running clouds. I close my eyes and I try to concentrate on sea sound, and it’s magic to distinguish on left side water swaying slowly whilst on right one rushing loudly

The promontory where I am divides the two beaches of Nazaré. The left one -the beach of Nazaré- is marvelous with the uphill town on background, but the real spectacle is on Praia do Norte where waves are crashing on the yellow shore, and the view losts on the wilderness with all it’s beuatiful natural colours, it is realy impressive.This place is just about seagulls, surfers and few fisherman, all of them with different meaning to stay here but all of them love this place in the same way, I reckon.

On the other side I see the small Nazaré, it seems very quiet and it is. Even if it is a touristic place the town has not lost his soul and it is really pleasant to visit, walking around his narrow streets where houses are mostly white decorated with azulejos and religious icons make me feel in a pacific and ancient place where people live a simple life forgetting what the world has become nowadays…

The Great Wall, Beijing

Jinshanling, il piu avventuroso tratto della Grande Muraglia Cinese. Camminare sopra a questa antica meraviglia è incredibile, si percepisce il senso di vastità guardandola correre per i monti fino a sparire dietro l’orizzonte.

Jinshanling, the most adventurous section of the Great Wall. Hiking on top of this ancient wonder is incredible, feeling the sense of wideness seeing the infinite wall running on top of the mountains and then fading away at horizon line.