Blogs from Torres del Paine, Magallanes, Chile, South America - page 20

Just back from 5 days hiking the W Trail in the Torres del Paine. My words and pictures can't tell or show how fantastic this place is, its a real wonderland. We were lucky enough to experience the whole range of Patagonian weather - it started sunny, then we had gale force winds (strong enough to blow you off your feet !!!) and a blizzard, then overcast, then 15cm of snow, then complete calm with blue sunny skies and finally clear blue skies and more gale force winds. At times we were in T shirts at others we were in thermals, fleeces and waterproof trousers and jackets. This was just what we wanted, it wouldn have been as good had the weather been good the whole time. The first three nights we stayed in refugios which ... read more

Hey Fans, nach vielm Wandern in El Calafate und El Chalten sind wir auf den Geschmack gekommen und sind nach Chile gefahren um den Torres del Paine Nationalpark zu bezwingen. IN Puerto Natales haben wir uns von unserem sehr urigen Schweizer Hostelbesitzer Camping Sachen geliehen und sind losgezogen... 5 Tage campen und wandern. Man muss erwaehnen das es dort im Sueden noch recht kalt war, es hat teilweise sogar geschneit. Aber wir sind ja nicht aus Zucker und haben dieses Abenteuer gewagt und hatten als Belohnung auch viel Glueck mit dem wetter und eineige wunderschoene Ausblicke. Es gibt verschieden Routen die man durch den Park laufen kann, wir wollten das W machen. wohl die meist gelaufene Strecke und fuer 5 Tage perfekt. Das ist der ganze Nationalpark... bloss das man mal sieht wie riesig. img=http://... read more

Los Extraño Ama y Apa. Muchos pero muchos besos les mando! A pues, aqui les mando mas fotos. Espero que les gusten : )... read more

The original plan was to arrive in Puerto Natales and leave to El Calafate, Aregentian Patagonia. But all that all came to a hualt when I met Katarina. An austrian girl in my hostal who was getting ready for her trekking expedition to Torres del Paine. We got to swapping stories and before we knew it we were talking about kayaking through gloaciers and looking at INDOMITAs Pamphlet of kayaking excursions. Not caring how much $$ we were going to spend, we quickly desserted our current plans to go in search of the perfect rivers to kayak through. We put on our jackets and off we went to tour agency that provided such EXPEDITIONS. All information was covered, what it entailed, what equipment they provided, what clothes to take, etc etc. After signing our lives ... read more

Before I go on there is a big gap in my blog, which I will update later on. For those of you who have been receiving Ads blog you will be right up to date. Strange title I know but it´s so true, it will all become clear. We have just got back from doing a 5 day trek around Torres Del Paine National Park (Chile). Here´s further info on the park for those of you interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_del_Paine_National_Park Met a lovely couple in Ushuaia, Jamie & Alexis and we ended up doing this trek with them. So the four of us headed off last Friday (17th) to do the W walk, which is 76km in total ( didn´t know this at the start)!! So off we set on the 07:30 bus, laden down with all ... read more