Hello all, We completed our five days of trekking in Parque Nacional Torres del Paine yesterday and returned to Puerto Natales safe and sound late last night. A few additions to our last email: El Calafate, Argentina is named after the calafate berry. It is a purplish-black berry similar in appearance to a blueberry, but darker. It grows on bushes in Patagonia. The taste is akin to a mix of blueberry and black grapes. Mild, not too sweet, slightly astringent. We had calafate flavored icecream in the town of El Calafate. Also, they make chirimoya (cherimoya) flavoured yogurt and icecream here. Back to our trek: We did a five day trek known commonly as "the W". We rented gear (tent, 2 sleeping bags with mats, stove, pot, backpack) from our guesthouse. Day 1: 7:15 bus to
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