Only a short 5 hour journey today to get to Puerto Natales so we had plenty of time to enjoy the sunshine and stroll around time after we confirmed which Torres del Paine tour we were on - well not which tour but that we we on a tour that would see something! The only thing to mar it was me falling flat on my face while walking from the bus station - thuis time ripping my trousers and causing bleeding - felt very sorry for myself and decided the pack had to get lighter!

A smaller town than Punta Arenas with mostly one storey buildings and a lower level of a colonial feel. It is on the shore of the sea but the route to the sea as so circuitous that you would think that it was on a lake. It was also our first introduction to the most famous local resident - a milodon who had died thousands of year before.

Our room at the hostel looked like something you find at in a nice guest house and the whole place had a very bo-ho shabby chic feel. The staff were rather vague about everything but friendly!

Next day we were picked up - later than advertised and headed off to Torres del Paine national park - finding out for the first time what we would actually see and had paid for. Our excellent guide filled us in on what we were passing and then we travelled to our first view of the massif - a truely impressive sight.

The tour continued stopping at Lago Amarga (Bitter lake), the Salta Grande cascade and stopping at Lake Pehoe for lunch. Here we had a chance to explore while our guide and the driver cooked lunch. We came back for lunch to find another guest had joined us - a very curious armadillo who was determined to steal our lunch. Lunch was very tasty and came with wine!

Afrew lunch we went to Lago Grey to see icebergs and the glacier before going to see the cave where they found the milodon. Altogether a very good tour and that just left us with the mission of finding somewhere to eat on a Sunday.

We ended up in a place called Afrigonia - a Chilean-Zambian fusion restaurant with excellent food - worth of all the photos that people were taking of it - who would of thought black bean pannacotta would work!!!