Torres del Paine National Park
Travel Blogs from Torres del Paine National Park, Chile
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...blue skies from pain...
It's the second day of my trekking around Torres del Paine National Park. I'm doing the classic "W-hike". I'm walking up Valle del Francés, my long thick hair whips me violently in the face, and reminds me that I need a haircut, again! The howling wind ...
Trekking in Torres del Paine
... also (had to as lot of it booked up already) for the park which is expensive too. Bus is about 2 hours north to Torres del Paine national park. I sleep most of the way there and when I wake up it is clear skies and sunny. Looks like I am going to go ...
Touring Torres Del Paine National Park
January 4, 2007 Touring Torres Del Paine National Park Dear Readers: Thankfully, the day dawns bright and clear. I rush to the dining room for my first glimpse of Lago Grey and the Grey Glacier since we arrived after dark last night. The view ...
Walking around a lot!
... finally getting out of Ushuaia we got into Puerto Natales at 11pm. We had decided to leave the next day to Torres del Paine national park,if we could geteverything organised. We stayed at Nikos 2, because Astro and Suse had recommended it and they were ...
Torres del Paine National Park
... . Too many highlights to mention them all, but here are a few in brief: The bus-ride into the park on the slowest bus in Chile. (Not exactly a highlight but memorable nonetheless). Drinking 2 of Pete's 'celebration cokes' on the first day with ...
Hiking in the best Chile has to Offer
... lunch on the viewing platforms but not when we were on the boat. From El Calafate we went back into Chile and on to the Las Torres del Paine National Park. This is a small group of mountains next to the main Andes chain. Here we spent 3 days camping ...
New Year´s Eve from another side of the world
New Year´s Eve...was spent in Torres del Paine National Park. We were worried that we weren´t going to be able to see the Torres del Paine (towers) because yesterday, it was so gloomy! But when we awoke, we were pleasantly surprised at the day´s ...
To the Torres!
... one from Texas. One thing i forgot to mention is that people are from EVERYWHERE, mostly Israel. Did I already mention that? oh. The Torres is a whopping 15,000 pesos just to get in (US28)!! I´m flabbergasted! For locals it´s only 5000!! Two-tiered ...
Towers of Pain(e)
... , and within another hour or so, we were pretty much all in our tents. A long and challenging day!! ***Day 2, still in Torres Del Paine Park*** We got up in the early hours, awakened by the birds and such. It was cold, and the showers were even ...
Torres del Paine National Park
... only his third season in Chile, he spoke great Spanish! After packing up our gear, we took a two hour ride into Torres del Paine National Park. As we drove, we were a little disappointed that it was rainy and gloomy. So gloomy that we feared we might not ...
Punta Arenas to Torres del Paine National Park
January 3, 2007 Punta Arenas to Torres del Paine National Park Dear Readers: Continuing the story of our long travel day, we begin our 290 mile drive north to the National Park bucking strong winds that buffet the bus from side to side. The ...
Day 1 of Torres del Paine: To Campamento Torres
We were up in the wee hours in Puerto Natales to board our bus to Torres del Paine National Park. The buses actually stop at all the hostels and hotels to pick up the passengers, so what was suppose to be a 7:30am pickup ended up being more like 8:15am, ...
8 Cold nights and over 100kms of Trekking
... in Argentina and headed for Puerto Natales in Chile, another small town and the starting point for the Torres Del Paine National Park. The bus into Chile was a very traumatic experience. I had my camera stolen by the Frontera police. Corrupt bastards. ...
Day 19 (Torres del Paine)
... the next breath I can say it was worth all the huffing and puffing and can add it to my list of accomplishments in life - I trekked the Torres del Paine. That makes it worthwhile and gives me enough encouragement to trek all the way back tomorrow." ...
Day 235: Torres del Paine 'The W', Day 4
... gloves and boots. Finally, beyond a few vertiginous and slippery ridges, I make it to Camp Chileno and pitch my tent in one of the few patches of ground free of snow. Through my tent flap I can see the tops of the Torres del Paine, tomorrow's ...
Cuernos on my Birthday
... "Torres" to the Horns "Cuernos" on my birthday, it was day 2 of a 7 day circuit in the infamous Torres del Paine National Park in Chile. I am often asked, why, if you live near the Rockies, would you travel thousands of kilometers to see more of the ...
Day 232: Torres del Paine 'The W', Day 1
... escape. I'm joined by a couple from Perth, Matt and Alicia, for a four-night/five-day camping trek through the Torres del Paine (pronounced 'pi-nay') National Park. We plan to do 'The W', a 123km route with side trips into valleys. It's off-season so ...
Towers and Glaciers
January 5, 2007 Towers and Glaciers Dear Readers: Our final day of touring in the National Park begins at 8:00am. The park is vast, and it seems to take forever to get to each place. Our aim today is to navigate around to the other side of the ...
Trekking in beautiful Patagonia
Within hours of departing the boat, I was on my way to explore the Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia. I had aranged to do some walking with a Swiss girl from the trip called Nathalie, but as we made our way there we found that once ...
Day 234: Torres del Paine 'The W', Day 3
... of terracotta spots that indicate the route. As we reach a forest of beech, the rain turns to snow. Sweeping down Paine Grande, Glaciar del Francés looks filthy, coated with black rocks that slide down the mountain. The peaks around us are disappearing ...
Patagonia at its best
On the way to Torres del Paine we free-camped near Punta Arenas. On the way in to the national park the next day we noticed how windy it was, the lakes had white capped waves all over them, and we were instantly worried for our tents blowing away ...
The Torres del Paine
... . We climbed to the top of the moraine, the lake was under us, the air was very very cold, and after a while the Torres del Paine lit up with their famed orange color (That can seen on any mountain that catches the first rays of sun, by the ...
Patagonia
... . We were me by the Explora Lodge representive and put into the shuttle van for the 5+ hour ride to the Lodge in Torres del Paine national park. Our vanmates were a couple from France, Pierre and Kara, who'd we grow to love like parents, and a Brazalian ...
W trek - day 2
... our camping habbits, sharing the tent, food, and cooking stuff. We walked along the mountain, leaving the Torres valley and heading for Valle del Frances. It was beautiful, and there were huge glaciers hanging high above us, sometimes a bird of prey ...
Trekking, glaciers and towers
... I could see lots of floating icebergs. On our final day I did the towers walk (the towers, or torres in Spanish, are what the park is named after) which was the best by far. Initially it was quite tough as the first section was all ...
Day 18 (Torres del Paine)
I will call today "Torres del Paine for Beginners" - my mission was to hike to the base of the towers, and that was it, if time allowed, do some other walks, but priority no 1 is the towers, I would be happy if that's all I did, I have the evening of the ...
Aborting the W - back to Puerto Natales
... and we went for a big dinner and wine. I was a bit upset I could not do the 4 days inTorres del Paine. But hey, better take care rather than be sick for 2 weeks. ___________________________________________________________ Have a look at the Summary ...
Day 236: Torres del Paine 'The W', Day 5
... weather is not kind. Rain through the night turned the snow to slush. The first part of the path up to the view of the Torres del Paine is treacherous, icy, narrow and with a steep plummet into a rocky valley to the right. At one point a rope is needed to ...
Trekking in the Torres
... Nous voila donc de retour a Puerto Natales apres notre randonnee de 5 jours dans le Parc National Torres del Paine, tout courbatures et couverts de boutons de moustique geants (attention, ils sont vicieux et aggressifs, ils piquent a travers les ...
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