Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Puerta Natales - rest day





  


 Puerta Natales Rest Day 

And much needed, though the real aches didn’t set in til afternoon!  The morning poured with rain, which gave us time to sort out the photos for the blog, a very time-consuming exercise given the hundred plus photos we take each day!!  Luckily, it stopped by lunchtime and we walked out of town to The Singular Hotel which we were told was worth visiting as it has a fascinating museum, being situated in the buildings of a former abbatoir, thriving in the middle part of the last century, but fallen to ruin.  It was saved and superbly converted into a unique and beautiful hotel, a process that took ten years.
 
 
 
       Reception!

 
As well as being an abattoir, the carcasses were frozen and stored in cold storage, and the hides and fleece processed and forwarded to England.  Fascinating displays and relics.
 
 

Then a windy walk back to our hotel and…..blog time!  


 
Dinner in the hotel tonight, as tomorrow sees the long drive to El Calafarte and a flight to Ushuaia on Tierro Del Fuego for the next exciting adventure…..

 
 
 
 
 

No comments:

Post a Comment