Kitesoul Magazine #27 Iternational Edition

small miracle that the tendon is still intact, and I’ll be
forever grateful that all my fingers are still where they
belong. After a tetanus jab and with a pack of antibiotics
still in my poncho, I trudge outside. Nobody is waiting
there for me and I figure Matias would have been super
keen to get back on the water. With all the time in the
world to wait for Mike, I sit down on a little park bench
in dismay. It’s Game Over for kiting for me for the time
being.
Challenges, obstacles and unforeseen events are all part
of travelling. It’s my first kitemare in ten years and of
course I’m majorly pissed off that it had to happen on
this trip. However, injuries never come at the right time
and life’s too short to mope about something that can’t
be changed.
I will fly to Patagonia, I announce to Mike a few hours
later sipping a consolation-Pisco Sour at a beach bar in
Matanzas looking out to the ocean where others are still
kiting and windsurfing. Mike chokes on his Pisco and
stares at me with raised eyebrows coughing. He reckons
I would be the only person who has decided to visit and
fly out to Patagonia within 24hours. Most take months,
sometimes years to plan this undertaking. That same
evening, I book a flight online for the next day to Punta
Arenas, the capital of the Chilean side of Patagonia.
Patagonia is at the most southern tip of South America
and stretches over two countries, Chile and Argentina.
With a spectacular landscape, Torres del Paine National
Park on the Chilean side is among the world’s great
natural wonders of our time. With an area of over 181.000
hectares, Mother Nature displays her beauty and energy
here on an epic scale: dazzling glaciers and mountains,
gigantic granite rocks in the most peculiar formations,
luminescent turquoise lakes, crystal clear rivers as far
CHILE