Torres del Paine

We spent 2 days camping in this magnificient national park in Southern Chile. Our campsite was on the shores of Lake Pehoe with postcard views of the surrounding landscape. On our first day we walked to a viewpoint of the famous towers which was a roundtrip of 6 and a half hours. A beautiful but tough walk through quite a lot of snow and fortunately not too much ice at the end, allowing us to scramble up the slope of boulders to the viewpoint.

The weather was unkind the next morning but that failed to deter us from saddling up and spending 2 hours on a couple of damp and long haired horses. After an hour and a half, Trenno (my chosen stallion) became very keen to get back to his stable, so ´we´ decided to up our trot to a fairly unconventional gallop. This sparked fits of laughter from Jackie and a renewed energy in Cheesepuff (her horse). A gap in the weather and the sight of some sun gave us the opportunity to explore nearby Lake Grey, with it´s huge icebergs and glacier.

Torres is a place that is wild in every possible way and we both wished we´d had a bit more time to enjoy it.