Chileno hut

W trek day 1 - lets go

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February 19th 2008
The W trek takes in the highlights of the park over 4 days of trekking - in surprisingly enough a rough W shape. The crucial issue for the wife being that you can stay in the mountain huts rather than camping. So less kit to carry and somewhere dry to sleep - to be fair probably not a bad call. We were walking from right to left taking in the towers on the first day before the cuernos on day 2, ... 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