Posada Serrano Torres del Paine

... at about 5:30 pm, we didn't have much daylight left (though then sun doesn't completely set down here until about 10 pm, it isn't fun to hike in the waning evening light), so we only hiked the 5.5 km from our dropoff point to our first campsite. I say only, because that's how we/I viewed it going in, but I was in for a rude awakening: 1) 8 days worth of food plus a few hours' worth of water (I drink tons) weighs a lot.. at the start of our trek, my bag was easily over 60 ...

... three days! The first day we drove into the park and on the way saw some local wildlife - guanacos (looks like a llama), rheas (looks like an emu), condors, eagles and ibis. Then we took a boat ride across a lake to our campsite for the night. We dumped our stuff and took off on our first hike, a cool 6 hour hike up to the French campsite between the Towers. The weather was amazing, the sun was out and we got quite warm walking, and there were no clouds so the view was spectacular. We took ...

... buses, we actually had to disembark from the bus so that it could safely cross over the only bridge in the park...<br><br>Now the introduction of the characters for this story: We had some great company for our ¨W¨adventure. First of all, Leah´s friend Kate was with us. She is teaching English in Puerto Aisen Chile and was in Puerto Natales (the jumping off city for Torres del Paine) to visit her buddies from the teaching program. One of whom was Joe, who was kind enough to hook us up with ...

... merveilles, des mini ice bergs dune couleur methe glacial extraordianaire, ce fut le premeir emerveillemt mais pas le dernier, ts les jours ns ns emerveillerons a chaque chgmnt de versants, chque sentier, de ts les cotes... on ne sait plus ou donner de la tete!!! veridique<br>on arrive vers 5h apres avoir decouvert lenorme glacier grey qui a paralyse le lac... impressionnant cest le premier glacier de ma vie que je vois, je suis plus que charmee!!!!<br>et les ...

Based in Puerto Natales, another beautiful town next to another massive lake, surrounded by more snow capped mountains. Here, we got ourselves sorted out for a weeks hardcore survival, including cooking equipment, and a lot of pasta!! <br><br>The hostel people booked us onto a 7am bus to the park for the next day, and we were off into the wilderness! The road itself was a stunning drive alongside lakes and more mountains, for 2 hours or so, til we arrived at the park ...

So what a way to celebrate my dday but to start a 4 night trek around this incredible national park. we started with 3 guys but it ended with just two, souñds like an epic tale, but it isnt Torres del paine is an amazing national park, the first day 2nd April my bday fir a quick reminder. We went off to glacier grey carrying our heavy back packs(about 15-20kg), the view of the glacier with the ...

... cliff faces with the only relief from the trees as we delved into the forst....when I got back everything was soaking wet, every layer of me - even my underwear. We had to dry off in a hotel that was in the middle of the park (a 600 pounds a night hotel...pretty special) and the porters weren`t too pleased! I had to squeeze out my socks and gloves in the sink because they were so wet. We had everything on the radiators and they kept on ...

... 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 floating glaciers, the horns (cuernos) of Paine and a mountainside forming glacier as well as the Torres themselves. The Torres are amazing simply because they are two of the most vertically shaped mountains you can see. They and their surrounding mountains are quite vertical, and they are flanked by ...

I got the 0500 bus from El Calafate, Argentina to Torres del Paine (National Park) in Chile. My first border crossing was quite uneventful, although they did take all of my newly purchased fruit off me, asking if I wanted to eat it then and there (4 apples, 2 oranges, 4 plums, 1 kiwi fruit) - I think not! I arrived in Torres del Paine to 90 km per hour winds. Now I know Patagonia is meant to be windy, but come on! I was seriously ...

... was pitched under a wind shelter with a picnic table. There was a small shop on site and a buffet style restaurant which was a life saver! <br><br>As soon as we were booked in and had our kit we were off again to explore. We went to both the waterfalls and wandered around the outside of the Explora hotel that features on all the photos. Suddenly we heard people calling our names ...