Torres del Paine, Chile Travel Blogs

Tremendous Torres
Mar 18, 1992 (14 photos)

... rest of our trip. Two Belgium girls, Mimi and Valerie, were traveling with us (or met us across the continent) for sometime after we left Torres del Paine (I saw Mimi in NYC a few years later, but have since lost touch, so if you know her shoot me a line). ...

...blue skies from pain...
Apr 17, 2005 (19 photos)

... mirrored in Laguna Amarga. So I got to see the towers at least, yes! Before I left Puerto Natales, a gateway town to Torres del Paine, I decided to start the "W-hike" by hiking up to the base of three towers for a closer look if the weather was nice. But ...

Trekking in Torres del Paine
Nov 7, 2006 (15 photos)

... 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 ...

Hiking in Patagonia
Nov 13, 2004 (10 photos)

... hello to centolla, the king crab famous in this southern Chilean region. Our first Chilean adventure was hiking in Torres del Paine. We hiked the popular "W" Circuit, which meant following the same people from refugio to refugio each day. (Refugios ...

Tourist Hell Pain
Apr 13, 2007 (7 photos)

... I had shared a cabin with on the boat. Puerto Natales is the main base for the hiking mecca of the Torres del Paine National Park. In season I imagine the town to be buzzing with people either setting out for or returning from the wildly popular ...

Torres del Paine National Park
Dec 17, 2006 (23 photos)

... than anywhere over the Argentinian side. Torres del Paine Puerto Natales is a town in the south of Chile, a short distance from the famous Torres del Paine national park. Here the town, with it's wooden houses, it's cool climate, and it's ...

Torres del Paine Part II
Nov 10, 2008 (22 photos)

By the second day we were referring to Torres del Paine as "Towers of Pain". The trail itself isn't terribly difficult on it's own, but we typically hiked 12 miles a day with heavy packs through every conceivable type of weather: rain, sleet, snow, ...

Torres del Paine Part I - furious winds
Nov 8, 2008 (20 photos)

... on our backs for 5 days of strenuous hiking into the wilds of Patagonia.         Torres del Paine was painfully beautiful - but there was a price - we slogged through mud, rain, snow, and ...

Torres del Paine Part III
Nov 12, 2008 (22 photos)

... to the base camp, packed all our wet gear and hiked down to meet the rest of the group. In all, Torres del Paine was an amazing experience.  I'm not sure if it was amazing in spite of the difficulty, or because of the ...

Trekking in Torres del Paine, incl a glacier hike
Dec 10, 2003 (13 photos)

Just back from five days trekking in the Torres del Paine national park. Amazing sights... mint-green lakes with brilliant icebergs on them; Glacier Grey, calving bergs into the lake; other glaciers going over precipices; and of course, the mountains ...

Not Bad for a Couple of Old Farts
Feb 18, 2006 (32 photos)

... the others have always been hostile. I would welcome thoughts from any of you on this topic. ---------------------- Logistics for Torres del Paine. If you can afford it, rent a car. Most of the key sites are accessible by bus, but some ...

Touring Torres Del Paine National Park
Jan 5, 2007 (11 photos)

... outside our dining room windows, is a floating iceberg. Far distant is the glacier, backed by the monumental peaks of Torres del Paine. The good-weather gods are smiling on us, indeed. We commence our first day of sightseeing in the National Park at ...

Snow trekking
Nov 8, 2008 (20 photos)

Snow snow and snow could just about sum up this little excursion..

Tough Walking
Mar 18, 2005 (3 photos)

Supposedly one of the most stunning national parks in the world, Torres Del Paine, Chilie, is breathtaking. I spent 3 long days walking on various routes in the national park. The French valley, Grays Glacier and the Twin Towers walks, all very ...

Torres: last day
Feb 7, 2007 (9 photos)

Got up at 4:30 to hike up to the towers and see them at sunrise. We made it just in time to see the sun trying to peek through a mist of fog and snowy clouds. It got durn cold when the wind started blowin´. After we each had our fill, we headed down, ...

Life. Changing
Mar 20, 2008 (14 photos)

... a bit of time constraint because of bus/flight schedules. Friday we spent the day getting prepped for the big trip to Torres del Paine National Park. Rented our tent, cooking equipment, poles, bought food, supplies, etc. Saturday morning we were on the bus ...

Torres del Paine, Feet of Pain
Nov 12, 2009 (32 photos)

... of food, then caught a bus to the park, two hours away. Our initial plan was to hike the full circuit around the Torres del Paine mountains, a trek we hoped to complete in seven days. When we arrived, we were told that the northern part of the circuit was ...

Day 1 in Torres Del Paine National Park
Apr 4, 2008 (9 photos)

We took a 2 hour bus ride from Puerto Natales to Torres Del Paine National Park. The bus was full of backpackers from all over the world, some just out of college, some on vacation and some taking a year off to travel the globe. We arrived at the park's ...

Torres Del Paine
Mar 11, 2009 (4 photos)

Arriving in Puerto Natales was the start of rushing around trying to organise the hike. The Navimag backpackers group I had become a part of decided to split into pairs to make organisation easier. I paired up with Anna, the other British girl and we ...

The Towers of Paine
Mar 28, 2009 (13 photos)

... to get there; which takes a while. So for aspiring travellers, it´s a bit easier to start from Puerto Natales in Chile.   The Torres del Paine National Park is one of the best National Parks I´ve ever trekked. I did the W circuit back in 2001, seeing ...

Torres del Paine National Park
Nov 4, 2005 (40 photos)

... 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 millenium (glacier) ice. ...

Torres del Paine: Worth the pain(e).
Oct 24, 2009 (16 photos)

... tempurature that would make a guanaco (llama) sweat. This was our first day at hiking the ¨W¨within Parque Nat´l Torres del Paine in Chile´s southern patagonia. From the very beginning, the views were breathtaking and we knew that they were only going to be ...

A World of Paine
Jan 10, 2009 (61 photos)

... I jumped on the bus to head to Torres del Paine, the crown jewel of the Chilean tourism industry. The exact meaning of ´Torres del Paine´was lost many centuries ago and even now scholars debate fiercely over its origins, some saying it is so called for the ...

Hiking in the best Chile has to Offer
Jan 22, 2006 (18 photos)

... eating 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 ...

The Torres at Sunrise
Mar 10, 2007

... . A solid pace until we hit a vertical up boulders. We still make it to the peak to see the sun burst through. The Torres have a deep orange glow. The wind is strong and everyone is bundled for warmth. It was definitely worth an early morning. We get back ...

Torres Del Paine and back to Buenos Aires
Dec 28, 2005 (7 photos)

The last few days of our trek was spent on the "W" side. Very busy and many more tour groups and day hikers. Nice views and much warmer weather. I think we were glad that we had done the pass. The lakes were blue and nice to get a reflective photo ...

Torres
Mar 28, 2007

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Torres Del Paine, Chile
Dec 6, 2007 (43 photos)

Hi Everyone,      Here is an update on our visit to Torres del Paine National Park and the Navimag Ferry; Puerto Natales, Chile being the starting point for both.     We had a shortened trip to Torres, only two days, one ...

Christmas in Torres del Paine
Dec 25, 2001 (4 photos)

... then grinded away the soft rock leaving these spires of hard standing. Some of the glaciers are still around, looking cool. Torres del Paine is at 50deg South latitude. It being the longest day of the year down there, you could read a book outside at ...

Well and truly Torres del PAINed ...
Dec 17, 2003

... met some amusing & lovely hikers. But the best part had to be the amazing Mountain ranges. The most famous are the Torres del Paine (towers of Pain) which are like natural skyscrapers sticking out of the landscape! I got up at 5.30 this morning, so that ...