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A short 5 and half hours on the bus and we were in Puerto Natales. It only took so long due to the usual Chilian border crossing, where they look through all our stuff looking for food and meat.

Puerto Natales, quiet is probably the best word to describe this place. Most people are just here waiting to move on to the Torres de Paine area, for which we now have our tickets. Although we still need camping gear. Yes we are camping! Quiet is one word to describe Peurto Natales windy is another. Not sure how well things are going to pan out, although my back has been better maybe something to do with better quality beds.

The bites that Lisa recieved from the horse flies in El Chaltén were looking really bad. I did ask if she wanted to go to a farmacia but she was playing it cool! Back at the hostel after seeing the bits she wasn´t playing it so cool and was keen to get to the farmacia asap. Well the farmacia staff were keen that we came back at 9 to see El Medico. We came back at 9 only to discover we hadn´t changed our watches for the time difference. At 9 Chile time, I told the story to El Medico and he seemed interested that we were in El Chalten. Turns out that there are some parasites that live in cows and some had been trasmited by the horse flies (vector) to Lisa who now has them living in her face. An injection in the bum, some cream and some antibiotics came to $30,000 pasos, ie 30 quid.