Day 2 of or Torres Del Paine excursion begins with us waking up and making a nice breakfast outside our tent, in the lovely morning sunshine. Then the challenging task of packing up our tent and heading back to the main park entrance, you can get mini-vans to take you back but being still in the trekking spirit we decided to hike the 7.5km through dirt roads, fields and over bridges back to the entrance. All the time with a diminishing view in the background of ...

Torres Del Paine is a famous national park in Chile, just under 1000 sq.miles of snow-capped mountains, lush valleys, countless lakes, rivers and massive glaciers. The showpiece of the park is the ´Paine Massif´which are three granite towers rising up to 2500 metres and can be seen for many miles around. This UNESCO world heritage site was on our must do list but was doubtful due to its remote location and the unfortunate event of a silly person who lit a toil...