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Punta Arenas - Puerto Natales - Torres del Paine FREE Travel Information Magazine welcomepatagonia Welcome to the Ice Age. Your home in Torres del Paine National Park... Hostería Lago Grey. welcomepatagonia welcomepatagonia 2 Travel Information Magazine Travel Information Magazine 3 Editorial Your home in Torres del Paine National Park... Some things never change. Go back ten or twenty years in your life. Travel with your mind and you Hotel Lago Grey. will notice that even though you have probably changed in time, there (This is the actual view from the deck) are many things you keep doing time and time again just because you like it. I don’t know what it is in your case, but in my case, photography is one of them. I am lucky to live near a lot of wonders and one thing that (56.61) 712100 calls to my attention is that although I go time after time to the same places, they look and feel different. This land has been a source of delight to me for years. Every sunrise and sunset is different, the wind blows in WP a different direction and the grass dances different tunes welcomepatagonia of wind. There is one big difference between you and me... that is you have traveled thousand of miles to get here. I sincerely hope you have a perfect journey across a land of aborigins, sailors and discoverers. A land untouched by men, but by God’s. 30 fine rooms - Bar, Lounge & Restaurant Book(56.61) Today!712100 Excursions & Navigation to the Glaciers www.turismolagogrey.com You are officially Welcome to Patagonia. Issue Number 1 Cover image: Lago Grey, Marcelo Kunstmann ©2008 Don’t miss it when youwww.turismolagogrey.com are up there in Torres del Paine... Bateries - Memory cards - Music and video Players - Cameras - Bags - Cd’s - Dvd’s - Video tapes We were born and raised in Patagonia. Our goal is to let you know insteresting stuff about Patagonia and go with you as you travel and discover. We are totally neutral on political issues and we are not related to any Index regional authority. Director: Punta Arenas Puerto Natales Torres del Paine Marcelo Kunstmann Gardella An Encounter with the Past 7 Puerto Natales Map 26 Welcome to Ice Age 4 Publisher: “Braun Menendez Palace”, Join us in a wonderful trip across Welcome Patagonia® Regional Museum in Punta Arenas. Puerto Natales. 26 Lago Grey to the Glacier Wall Graphic Design, Maps & Illustrations: The door to Torres del Paine Manuel Aguila for Agencia K Punta Arenas Map 22 National Park and Camping in the Park 15 Contact & Sales: Perito Moreno Glacier. [email protected] Punta Arenas 22 Torres del Paine Map 16 Capital of the Magallanes Region. What to do? 27 Thanks to: María Gómez from the Regional Museum, 254 kms to Puerto Natales. Torres del Paine Trekking Map 18 CERE from Universidad de Magallanes. Milodon’s Cave. 28 What to do? 23 Between myth and reality. First Class Excursion 19 The opinions within Welcome Patagonia, written or implied, are not necessarily those of the advertisers. The Magellanic Penguin. 24 A funny guy in a tux that Welcome Patagonia® Magazine Postal: Jorge Montt 735 Punta Arenas, Chile goes away but is more loyal Telephone: +56 61 613940 than any other one. Copyright 2008 Marcelo Kunstmann. Welcome Patagonia is a registered trademark. We accept credit cards ©2008. All rights reserved. Zona Franca Mall, Store 137 in Punta Arenas The use of the name of the brand or any content (Beside the mechanical stairs) of this paper is forbidden by law. This issue Telephone (56.61) 710105 printed in La Prensa Austral, Punta Arenas, Chile. www.welcomepatagonia.com/magazine welcomepatagonia welcomepatagonia 4 Travel Information Magazine Travel Information Magazine 5 Welcome to the Ice Age! About the Glacier Grey Glacier is 27 meters long and 4 Join us on a wonderful trip across Lago Grey to the Glacier Wall. kilometers wide. Its front has an average Text & Images by Marcelo Kunstmann height of 25 meters. It is part of the Campo de Hielo Patagónico Sur which is the third biggest water reserve of the planet after Antarctica and Greenland. The Campo de Hielo Sur or South Ice Field in English, is 350 Amazing! Beautiful! kilometers long with a minimum width of 8 kilometers and a maximum of 65 meters. September 19th. Torres del Paine National Park. A total of 13.500 square kilometers that We woke up early, had a delicious breakfast at the Hotel and got gathers 48 big glaciers and more than 100 ready to catch the bus from the hotel to the beginning of our small ones. 18% of the Ice is in Argentina adventure. This is the first part, when we cross the bridge over Rio Grey and walk and the rest in Chile. among the forest to get to the shores of Lago Grey. This is a perfect moment to make new friends and share impressions on the surroundings. A zodiac boat is Grey Glacier is a calving type glacier. It is now ready to take us from the dock to M/N Grey II where the captain is waiting in its reverse period. Today it is composed for us to begin the navigation. A brief talk on safety and we are on! by 2 fronts showing 3 rocky risings. The biggest one is called Nunatak which began About the Lake appearing 100 years ago. Lago Grey is 17 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide, with a maximum depth of 550 meters near the glacier. The temperature varies between 2 and 5 degrees The Retraction Celcius. Its “milky” color is produced by the sediment material in suspension as The retract ratio of the glacier is of 4 meters a consequence of the erosion produced by the glacier over the rocky ground. per year in the last century, but in the last 12 The lake comes from the glacier. It is poor in nutrients and very rich in sediments years the glacier has lost almost 1kilometre so the sunshine does not penetrate. This and the low tempretaure of the water in the oriental side and almost 2 in the make life imposible. occidental side. It is said that the accelerated retreatment of the glacier is produced by The ices floating near the shore of the lake come from the front of the glacier. The the global warming. The glaciers coming travel from the front of the wall towards the beach takes between 3 and 7 days. from the Campo de Hielo Patagónico Sur are near their fusion point which means It takes 3 to 12 months to completely melt. that any increase in temperature will affect the glaciers directly. The deep blue color that can be observed is an effect produced by the decomposition and refraction of light. Light itself decomposes in a continuous color spectrum of red, green and blue. Water moleculs absorb red waves 6 time more than the others producing a strong blue. The intensity of the color varies depending the state of the ice. If it is more compacted and free of oxygen bubbles the blue will be more intense. Back on the Tour Already aboard and thirsty of adventure, we went outside to enjoy the live view from the deck. The Paine Grande Mountain is getting closer. We are lucky today, the water is so calm that it looks like a mirror and there is a lot of ice floating near us. We can see the glacier and its walls at the end of our sight as they highlight the whole scene. Mr. Arturo, the captain, kindly offered me a very informative talk on the surroundings. After an hour of sailing we reached the front of the glacier. The deep blue color is unbelievable. The captain slowed down the engine so we could appreciate the magic of it all. The crew offered us a Pisco Sour or a Whisky chilled with ice of the very glacier! Now going back to the Hotel the captain was going among the ices so we could appreciate the different shades of blue which are really impressive. I realized that the deepest blue is when you are watching at 90º degrees from the sun location. When we were with the sun in our back ther was no color, but when in at one side it was really blue. We were lucky. The sky was completely clear and a lot of ices were floating all around. I hope you have the same fortune! Good luck and enjoy your trip on Lago Grey. Departures Everyday Price: One Way CLP 32.000, Round Trip CLP 40.000 8 AM: Round trip. Back at 11AM. Check in at Hotel Lago Grey front desk at 7AM. 12 PM: One way to Regufio Grey. Only transportation. Check in at 11AM. 1.30 PM: Return trip from Refugio Grey to Hotel Lago Grey (this trip CLP 35.000) 3.30 PM: Round trip. Back at 6.30PM. Check in at Hotel front desk at 2PM. Check for avalaibility calling +56.61 410220 or 410172 For booking email to: [email protected] welcomepatagonia welcomepatagonia 6 Travel Information Magazine Travel Information Magazine 7 Patagonia Aborigins Selknam were not real, and their goal was to unmask them. At the time they realized An Encounter with the Past. that these “spirits” were actually human beings, they were then told a story of the creation of the World about the Sun and Moon. There was also, a story told “Braun Menendez Palace”, Regional Museum in Punta Arenas. (actually part of the same) that at one time women used these spirits to control Text & Images by Marcelo Kunstmann men: they would disguise themselves as spirits and threaten the men while they been preserved in its original did not know that these were not spirits at all.