So it´s time for my last trekking expedition in South America. I catch a bus from El Calafate in Argentina to Puerto Natales in Chile to prepare to attack the ´W´ hike in the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. This is within several hundred kilometers of the southern most part of the terra firma and it sure feels like it. Its freezing and super windy here but there is a nice feeling of being so far south. I can´t explain it but it´s nice. I hire my tent...

San Pedro de Atacama is a very touristy oasis town in the desert but it somehow still has charm. Buildings are made of mud and are very small, there's not many trees, it's hot and very expensive by south american standards but you can't help but like the place. By night it is totally different than during the midday sun to the point where it's almost as if you're staying in two different towns. There's candles and low lighting everywhere and the town is inviti...