Punta Arenas and Puerto Natales

So from Puerto Montt I landed in Punta Arenas, right on the Magellan Straight. It's quite an important city, regional centre for the south of Chile - some 160,000 inhabitants. For those who don't know Fernando de Magalhaes was a portuguese seeman who, working for the spanish crown, undertook the first expedition to go around the world. It was in 1519 and it took 3 years to complete. He found this passage to the South Seas which he named 'Pacific Ocean', which is still used by ships, some 500 kms lomg and maximum 40 kms wide. Unfortunately he did not end the trip, being killed in fights againts local populations in the Philippines, so Sebastian Del Cano ended the expedition. In the central square in Punta Arenas, there is a statue to Magalhaes (here known as Magellan) and of course his name is wrongly spellt... Hernando, instead of Fernando. But there's nothing particularly interesting about Punta Arenas, although there are some interesting buildings. So from there I drove up to Puerto Natales, a small town in the middle of the land (but which actually is a seaport because it is in a fjord!). Puerto Natales (10,000 people) is the 'door' to the nearby (well, 100 kms more...) National Park of 'Torres del Paine' (read pá-i-né) otherwise it seems that nothing much would happen here.