Laura and the Cuernos

Torres del Paine

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January 24th 2009
Just got back to Puerto Natales after seven days in Torres del Paine Parque Nacional. Both of us really enjoyed this part of the trip, we had beautiful scenery, got to hike an average of 20 km a day, and met lots of fun people. We started from Lago Amargo, hiked into Camp Las Torres and completed El Circuito going counter-clockwise. We planned for ten days (mostly just in case we had bad w ... 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