Today's view

Day 134 - Camp Italiano - Camp Torres

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November 13th 2006
Today's walk was scheduled to take 6 and a half hours, though Gemma's fierce pacemaking brought this down a bit. On our low resolution map, with 100m interval contour lines, it looked pretty flat and nothing more than a stroll along the edge of a green lake. In fact it was quite up and down, and pretty slow in parts. Well, slow for humans. We were overtaken by a guy on horseback leading a train of ... read more

South America » Chile » Magallanes » Torres del Paine

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more