The towers of pain

Sorry, Torres del Paine (one of the major Chilean National Parks), but well there were moments when that was how it felt.

Would you believe it, we actually went on a 3 day hike and lived to tell the tale. On our boat trip to Puerto Natales we met a young fit Australian chick, Alicia and cool Irish lad, Tom who made us believe trekking through the park is a good thing, no. Ahhh I pity the fool.

Anywho, long story short, we loaded ourselves with food for 3 days trekking and went into the deep deep wilderness of Torres del Paine. First day 18km to the Refugio was good, the sun was shining, the peaks were stunning and legs were still working. Second day the rain started to fall but we still managed to do a 16km trek over half frozen track to the glacier. On our last day we did the first day in reverse but by then we got used to walking so 18km back was a doddle. Especially with the dream of a shower and a pizza at the end to keep us going.

The best bit was that, apart from pumas, guanacos and condors, we were all alone in that mighty park. Didn't see a single soul on our way. And having a 200 beds refugio to ourselves was wicked. We ended our days by sitting next to the fire, drinking wine and watching the sun going down the peaks. Ahhh