Buenos Aires/Iguazu/Patagonia: Days 17 to 20 - Torres del Paine and the "W" circuit
March 2nd 2013 Following our break in El Calafate we headed west to Chile and the famous Torres del Paine national park. We got picked up by our bus at 5am. The trip across the border was loaded with vast arid landscapes speckled with occasional sitings of rhea (large ostrich like birds) and guancos (wild llamas).
After ~6 hrs of driving with occasional bathroom breaks and view stops (one of which we saw the
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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 
