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Muelle Prat and the Fishermen’s Pier, Puerto Natales
There are places you don't visit: you pass through them. Muelle Prat, managed by Empresa Portuaria Austral (EPA), is exactly that for anyone traveling to Torres del Paine. It's the edge where Puerto Natales ends and the water of Seno Última Esperanza begins, the fjord that Juan Ladrillero sailed in the 16th century looking for…
Balmaceda Glacier
Northwest of Puerto Natales, after several hours of sailing across the Última Esperanza Sound, the fjord narrows and the wall of Mount Balmaceda (2,035 meters) comes into view. Hanging on its slope, held almost miraculously against the rock, is the Balmaceda Glacier: a tongue of blue ice that never reaches the water, yet feeds it…