Nice lake ... but no flamingos

Torres del Paine

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March 29th 2009
Beautiful scenery = Exhaustion Ola! Buenos Dias Just back in ¨civilization¨ in Puerto Natales after spending an amazing 5 days hiking the ¨W¨ track in Torres del Paine National Park. Some say ¨Paine¨ is a local Indian word meaning blue, others say Paine was an early Welsh settler. We say its the feeling in our legs after the first day of hiking. Whatever it means its an incredib ... 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