Torres del Paine

Származási hely: Torres del Paine

We´ve been lost in the last two days, but we did a hard work over the weekend and yesterday:)
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It was quite an active two days, we spent in the National Park Torres del Paine. A guide (Czech girl, working there for the season) came to pick up us Sunday early in the morning in our hostel in Puerto Natales. We went to an "estancia" to learn kayaking in 15 minutes and to go for 3 hour trip on one the fjords nearby. Although we had more or less a blue sky, it was quite cold and were worried to turn over into the fjords 8 degree warm:) water. Except one us, we were sitting the first time ever in a kayak. As you can see the pics, it went well and we could see some nice birds and amazing landscapes of the Torres.

Származási hely: Torres del Paine

I was always thinking about to start horse riding, so the afternoon we went horse riding... I think Patagonia is the right place isn´t it???? Our guide a dutch girl was verry surprised about our talent.

Származási hely: Torres del Paine

We didn´t feel tired enough after 8 hours active sport, so we continued by car and went to the heart of the national park. The accomodation we had that night was a bit strange. Electricity and heating was shut down at 11 p.m. We were quite unhappy, but didn´t know yet that the next night is going to be much more extreme:)))


The day after we drove around by car in the national park to Lago Grey, Lago Pehoe and to the waterfalls "Salto Grande". The glacier lake was really warm, the color of the lake Pehoe was amazing and the noise of the waterfalls was just scary.

Származási hely: Torres del Paine

Our big plan for the day was to hike up to the foot of the Torres cliffs. A 10km hike with an elevation of 700m (from 100m to 800m), it seems easy or????? It wasn´t...At this latitude things are slightly different:) It started to rain at noon, so we were waiting in a nice restaurant for the time being. Even at 5 o´clock we were facing still the same conditions. We decided to leave and to try to reach a "rifuggio" a few kms below our destination. It was a 2 hour walk in heavy and cold rain to arrive up there, where we were faced to the fact that the shelter is full for the night. We had to go on.... The rain wet over into snow... An other 2 hours of climbing up the trail and we reached a camping at 9 p.m. in the evening.

Did somebody of you ever set a up a tent in snowfall at 700m altitude???
I didn´t do it ever before...

Did somebody of you ever sleep below 0 degrees of temprature???
I didn´t do it ever before...

This day was the good time to start such things to do:)

Aditionally I almost died in a gas explosion, caused by my brand new gascooker, bought in Ushuia. I just wanted to make a nice hot tee, but it seems non of the gods were with us that day. The whole cooker blew up in my hands....

Származási hely: Torres del Paine

I think nobody would wonder about it, that we didn´t sleep to long in the morning after:) A further 100m s up and we reached the morena-lake of the Torres. On the way down the mountain, there was a nice weather and we had nice views of the 3 Torres cliffs. After drying our staff a bit in the parking lot, we left the park and turned back from Chille to Argentina, this time without any problem. We ate all our food carefully:)

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The story continues next from El Calafate s Perito Moreno glacier....