{"id":5897,"date":"2015-01-24T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T15:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2020-12-19T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:12:19","slug":"car-return_puntaarenas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/2015\/01\/24\/wagenrueckgabe_puntaarenas\/","title":{"rendered":"Car return in Punta Arenas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Morning return to Punta Arenas to return the rental car<\/li>\n<li>Take care of organizational matters including withdrawals and exchanges of money<\/li>\n<li>Shopping tour through the Zona Franca<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>After the usual morning procedure, we leave a little after 9 a.m., finally we have to return the comfortable car at 1 p.m. in Punta Arenas. With a little rain we leave Puerto Natales and drive on the excellent Routa 9 back to the navel and the only metropolis of Patagonia. The deserted expanse is once again impressive. Apart from countless sheep and rheas there doesn&#039;t seem to be much in the wilderness of the pampas.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>After the return, we will organize ours\u00a0<b>Bus ride<\/b> to El Calafate. Tomorrow, unfortunately, everything was fully booked, so we will have to take a day off. Since we will be traveling in Argentina again, we want to withdraw a larger amount of cash again and exchange it for dollars and pesos.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>We take a taxi out to the <b>Zona Franca<\/b>, the tax-free shopping street Punta Arenas. The shops offer an astonishing number of electronics, outdoor clothing, fashion, perfumes and alcohol in a somewhat chaotic manner. I find a new photo bag, which Niki buys for me as a Christmas present.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Back in the city center we look for a nice restaurant where we order another generous portion of Parrillada.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Morning return to Punta Arenas to return the rental car<\/li>\n<li>Take care of organizational matters including withdrawals and exchanges of money<\/li>\n<li>Shopping tour through the Zona Franca<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<div>After the usual morning procedure, we leave a little after 9 a.m., finally we have to return the comfortable car at 1 p.m. in Punta Arenas. With a little rain we leave Puerto Natales and drive on the excellent Routa 9 back to the navel and the only metropolis of Patagonia. The deserted expanse is once again impressive. Apart from countless sheep and rheas there doesn&#039;t seem to be much in the wilderness of the pampas.<\/div>\n<p><\/br><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,820,1032,1109],"tags":[1034,1103,1104,1105,1106,1120,1154,1155,1156],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tagebuch","category-suedamerika","category-chile","category-patagonien","tag-chile","tag-patagonien","tag-patagonia","tag-punta-arenas","tag-region-de-magallanes-y-de-la-antartica-chilena","tag-puerto-natales","tag-routa-9","tag-zona-franca","tag-samarce-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcelgross.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}