Torres Del Paine Travel Blogs

By the time morning finally arrived, the rain had finally stopped although the wind continued to blow and gust throughout the day.  Not as hard as the night before, but still more blustery than we had experienced to date other than perhaps on our boat journey on Lago Grey.  And Las Torres…

Torres Del Paine national park is stunning, it was great to get to see it at a different time of year. Now there is much less snow and flowers are starting to appear on the ground. If you are heading to Torres national park and your on a budget its good to know how much you can expect to spen…

The next day we were to take a boat at 12 to our lamb barbeque at an estensia. But before that German offered to take us for a short kayak trip up another river to a lago to have a final view of the torres massif. We took up the offer and were off in the morning sunshine. As has been the case it s…

If I were a religious man I'd say 50 hail Marys or something similarly respectful to the big man/woman/being of non-specific gender in the sky for the four days of close to flawless walking weather we received. I'm not though so I'll just say "Ta!" to Ma Nature instead. There were two light periods…

Despite going to bed last night with a sore throat and high fever, today began at 2am - when me and 4 friends set out on a two hour hike in the darkness up to the Mirador Las Torres.  Our plan was to  set out early and make the ascent to the Towers in a race against the sun.  Sunri…

We spent the day in the lovely scenery of National Parc Torres del Paine. At night we arrived in Puerto Natales (what's in a name? ;-)), a small town where we had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner in a nice restaurant. First Kings crab we had on the trip.

Fresh off the four days on the ferry from Puerto Montt I was looking into planning my hiking trip in Torres del Paine. The cold and rainy weather on the boat had deterred me from camping as I would have had to rent all sorts of gear, carry it across the sixty some kilometers of the trail and deal w…

Our last day in the Park was a rainy one so packing the tent up was quite comical, if a little soggy. We just hhad enough time to clamber up to another mirador to look in awe at the Paines mountains set against the turquoise blue Lago Pehoe. Our final trip was on the disproportionately priced …

Paa fjerdedagen gik vi i land i Puerto Natales, her lejede folk trekkinggrej, som soveposer, liggeunderlag og vi forberedte os alle paa de naeste dagess strabadser. Vi efterlod vores overfloedige bagage paa hostellet ogblev naeste morgen tidlig hentet af en bus.Vi blev sat af ved vores foerste camp…

Neither of us slept well and I was up with the alarm at 5:20, had breakfast in the Horizon Court and was in the Princess Theater at 6:30 against a 6:50 deadline, the first to arrive. The plan for the day was a trip to Antarctica that I had reserved months in advance. Sadly, a bit after 7:00 came th…

5 months and 5 countries... so far just a few photos with writings to come

This is the blog about my travels around Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile!

Ok so the hostel computer has broken and along with it has gone my draft I wrote up last night, so sorry this can only be brief. If you ever get to go to Chile, go here - Torres del Paine National Park. What an incredible, beautiful, challenging, fun, adventurous, breathtaking 5 days, 4 nights we …

Well since I write this is a diary for myself there migth be a little too much info for some people so here is a summary of my 12 nights in Torres Del Paine:It started quite bad with the guards at the entrance told me that the Circuite was closed and I could only do the W which is a shorter trek. W…

Map and some photos of my second trip around South America. Blogs coming soon! Argentina - Uruguay - Paraguay - Bolivia - Chile - Patagonia