19.12.2010: Punta Arenas – and 130.000 Penguins

Punta Arenas is not a place worth visiting really, we’d say – expensive, certainly not a beauty, cold – except for one reason:

130.00 PENGUINS breeding on a nearby island!


Walking through the "city center" - bit cold too

Walking through the "city center" - bit cold too

Saw this one next to our hostel

Saw this one next to our hostel

Getting onto the ship to the penguin island - a car ferry! :-)

Getting onto the ship to the penguin island - a car ferry! :-)

Tickets are collected by the "Chief of operations" :-)

Tickets are collected by the "Chief of operations" :-)

And there they are already waiting for us

And there they are already waiting for us

65.000 penguin couples nesting here - 130.000!! Very cute, but also interesting smell really :-)

65.000 penguin couples nesting here - 130.000!! Very cute, but also interesting smell really :-)

So cute, and absolutely not afraid of the human visitors at all

So cute, and absolutely not afraid of the human visitors at all

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