The Torres del Paine at sunrise

The walk to the Torres was not easy in the dark, made worse by a wrong-turn that I took towards the end, that meant I had to scramble up a few hundred metres of 45 degree sand and scree. Not fun. Fortunately the view made it all worthwhile.

Aches and pains at the Torres del Paine

April 20th 2006
After the trip down southern Chile aboard the Puerto Eden we were very excited about our forthcoming visit to probably the most celebrated national park in the entire continent. We'd tried to buy pretty much everything we'd need, although we were still pinning our hopes of hot dinners on a camping stove (bought on eBay some weeks before) which we were to collect at Puerto Natales post office. We w ... read more

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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

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