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 the towers that conquered yesterday.

After an hour and a half of what turned out to be rather challenging we arrived back at the park entrance and were picked up by the tour group from our Puerto Natales hostel.

This was arranged before we left and gives us the opportunity to see the vast southern areas of the park, so we jumped into the van and we were greeted by a bunch of very surprised South Koreans! Turns out that the entire trip (apart from us) was for a big group of South Korean tourists (of course they had massive expensive cameras and were all very excited to be seeing the park)

Dave and Emily were of course tired from battle (battling the mountain yesterday in case you´re wondering) and sat in the back happy to be driven around for the day. There were some hiking moments which were nice and short but overall it was a very pleasent and easy trip around a area of the park that we did not have time to hike ourselves (takes about a week)

We went to many beautiful lakes, an amazingly ferocious waterfall and a rather sad scene of thousands of burnt trees as a result of the recent fires that happened here.

After a nice picnic on the shore of a mountain side lake we went to our final destination for the day called ´Grey lake´ which is a massive lake that is fed by a massive glacier at the far end, to add to the already impressive scene there were also lots of amazing ice bergs floating about.

However at this moment the trip started to go wrong, our guide told us very clearly that we have 1.5 hours to look around so we are only to walk down the beach to the end (where you can see the glacier in the distance) and walk back. ´We must be back on the bus by 16:30 so we can get back to Puerto Natales´ said the guide. We all nodded and off we went.

So a nice stroll along a very windy beach, and we returned to the bus on time, then 3 others turned up in our bus......and that was it.

We were missing 5 people in our bus and after a hour it became clear that they had not fully understood the guides instructions and walked onto the beach and straight onto a boat!

This boat is a 3 hour tour of the lake and costs $100 each! The 5 Korens jumped on unaware of either the duration or the cost (Latin Americans love to charge you after the trip rather than before). Our guide was not happy at all when it emerged that the boat would not return until at least 19:00! She radioed the boat saying ´You have 5 people who got on you boat WITHOUT AUTHORISATION!!!´

The Koreans that were already in our bus were very ashamed of their friends and spent a long time apologising to us and giving us gifts of biscuits!

After almost 6 months of travelling you get very laid back about delays and things going wrong so Dave and Emily just sat there and read their Kindles in the back, chuckling to themselves at the image of the 5 Koreans on the boat with their big wide smiles unaware that they won´t get back by 19:00, have to deal with an angry guide and friends, and that they are about to be stung for $100 each!!

For some reason everyone felt bad for us having to wait so they arranged for us to jump onto another tour company´s bus to take us back. So we said goodbye to our friendly Koreans and said hola to a bus full of Chileans and off we went.

On the way back we stopped at the ´Cave of the Milodon´ which is a large and impressive cave that some bloke in 1895 found skin of a big sloth, after more investigation the skin was identified as an extinct animal called a ´Milodon´ a kind of big bear/sloth that lived alongside it pals of Sabre toothed tiger and dwarf horses some 10,000 to 13,000 years ago.

Theses days you wander into the cave and then at the end is a life size model of the Miladon, which of course you get your photo taken with.

From here we all headed back to Pueto Natales and our hostel, very tired from 2 days of exploring the park. Later on that night the Koreans arrived looking rather ashamed and quickly dissapeared off to bed.