From Puerto Natales (where I rounded a breezy corner of the bay to find some.....university student accommodation - aarghhh!but those pesky students have such a great view) we were picked up kindly at our hotel by JB bus to take us into Chile´s highlight of all national parks - Los Torres del Paine. How little did we know what pain really was until we climbed those mothers!
A truly beautiful mountainscape for 360 degrees, with the longest snowfield in the Americas (300kms), radioactive coloured salt lakes, glaciers to die for and volcanic peaks to swoon over in the big, big sky. Almost heaven, apart form the cost and the pain,oh the pain!We also met up with Nicky and Mark from Ealing and proud to say Mark is a true Nottingham Forest fan to the last (keep all those fingers crossed UK, they have to go up, for Cloughie up in the sky) who had a similar budget issues in the hotel lined with gold (ours)! The photgraphs will show the grand scale of the landscape we had to scale in our quest to reach the base of Los Torres, the towers, all over 2700mts high.
Like stupid English fools we misread the map when it said four hours walk/climb we thought it meant round trip! Alas no, and your intrepid explorers spent 10 hours all told on foot returning down the mountain in the dark with Phils fab lithium battery torch saving our souls and preventing us falling off the precarious edge of the boulder strewn path with scary noises in the dark! The scene at the peak of our quest was worth the pain in hips, knees and achilles, with an azure blue lago footing the sheer granite vertical towers, catherdral like in their immensity standing another 800metres above us. Los Torres del Paine - and they most certainly were!
The following couple of days were spent recovering or at least trying to walk between the room and the breakfast restaurant and back without swearing , groaning or a grimace! When we had arrived at the hotel we had arranged a 2hrs guided tour to Lago Nordenskjold and the rear view of those Torres. So it was a good test for old sporty muscles and joints to see if they could function 36 hours after they had been so abused! More fantastic views and thanks to our knowledgable-about-all-things guide the yummy Rodrigo (he´s coming to England in May girls)we learned a lot more about the park, natural history, Chile and its social cultures than we would talking rubbish to each other for another afternoon! Plus the added bonus of another forceful waterfall Salto Grande and only 2 hrs walking on the virtual flat this time with a full body massage booked on our return (no extras for me though!)from the diminutive Rebekka. A beautiful bottle of Maipu Valley Merlot joined by four cheeses and followed by a puma spotted just outside the window by the waiter which they tried to highlight using the jeep headlights and steer him away from the horse corall - we felt we had found paradise - then we got the bill......
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