{"id":3942,"date":"2015-02-02T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelandreams.net\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2016-01-21T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:22:04","slug":"las-torres-del-paine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelandreams.net\/en\/las-torres-del-paine\/","title":{"rendered":"TORRES DEL PAINE, NATIONAL PARK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andreu R\u00f3denas<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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In my trip to Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego I spent a few days in Chile. The Chilean part of Patagonia is much less than the arid and windy part of Argentina as the Andes makes natural barrier and precipitation such as rain and snow are huge throughout the year. These rains and snow caused water to be the dominant element of life and fauna of this place.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"El

The sky in the Chilean Patagonia<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

In the\u00a0Chilean Patagonia there are fjords, lakes, glaciers, islands, rivers, volcanoes and endless forests. The southern of Chile contrasts with deserts of\u00a0the north of the country, here the water, ice and greenery flood all places resulting in unique landscapes and spectacular as they aren’t in other places of the earth . We visited two national parks in the four days we spent in the city of Puerto Natales just 300 km from the Strait of Magellan. This remote area of \u200b\u200bthe world still preserves the beauty of nature, and no escape from modern life, many aspects of their ancestral people. The footprint of tourism exists but has not yet changed the lives of very few inhabitants of the very few towns\u00a0there. Surely dedication to fishing and livestock has dropped in favor of the creation of services for the\u00a0tourism but surely this has enabled many of these people have had to emigrate for economic reasons only.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"P.N.Torres

Torres del Paine National Park<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Puerto

Puerto Natales<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

At first trip to Iguazu Falls, Patagonia and Tierra de Fuego was thought only to visit the Argentine side, but we could not resist the temptation of visiting some of the Chilean national parks and the truth, I can not imagine a trip to Patagonia without at least spend a few days in Puerto Natales and Punta Arenas to go to visit the national park of Las Torres del Paine.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Benvinguda

Welcome to Puerto Natales\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

We were renting a car in El Calafate and we went south on the famous road that crosses the whole of Argentina north to south. This road is a reference for adventurous travelers because it has 5,500 km of route and more than half are gravel tracks or “ripio” as they say. 500 km south of El Calafate is a mining town called Rio Turbio and bordering the Chilean city of Puerto Natales, are 500 km of lines that never end, wind and land of\u00a0ocher colour without people, where\u00a0the\u00a0life is only put by the sheep and cows grazing on a land of\u00a0\u00f1and\u00fas and some wild guanacos, it is a monotonous landscape, an inhospitable and harsh land that is only broken by some “oasis “or some estancia (ranch) alone.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\u00d1and\u00fas.

\u00d1and\u00fas. Patagonia Argentina<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"De

From El Calafate to\u00a0Puerto Natales. Patagonia\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"De

From \u00a0El Calafate\u00a0to\u00a0Puerto Natales. Patagonia\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

Rio Turbio has this name because the its water\u00a0takes the dark colour\u00a0due to the coal mines there are, those mines are the livelihood of the entire community, also have the means of subsistence sailing gas to the\u00a0Chileans who\u00a0from the other side of the border come close to filling the tanks due to the price difference, to survive in these latitudes any savings are very important.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Flamencs

Flamingos in\u00a0Rio Turbio\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Mines

Coal Mines in\u00a0Rio Turbio\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The Argentine border crossings remembered us those from\u00a0the 50s and 60s\u00a0in the\u00a0dictatorship, with police unfriendly and poorly groomed, facilities and left semi-abandoned. Rather the Chilean border was much more modern and prepared, here certainly noticed the difference between the wealth of the two neighboring countries. Once in Puerto Natales we decided to go a couple of days in Las Torres del Paine and make a day trip visiting a fjord and some\u00a0glaciers in the\u00a0Chilean side. In fact, this trip helped us to visit the Torres del Paine park without having to make the 120 km and other back between Puerto Natales and the park. Along the way we stop to visit the Parque Nacional Bernardo O’Higgins located just halfway into the fjord called Ultima Esperanza, in this park we met glaciers Balmaceda and Serrano, to to approach the glacier Serrano we walk about an hour in a forest rather was a botanical garden.<\/p>\n

\"Glacera

Serrano Glacier. P.N. Bernardo O’HIggins\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Las

Las Torres del Paine<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

After this stop, and since leaving the fjord we go up the river in a zodiac for more than 30 kms to enter the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. In one day you can visit it, but the visit will be very short but\u00a0I speak not go there to do some of the treks there, I leave that for the most experienced mountaineers. Simply cross it in its major tracks by car stopping in the most emblematic sites it\u00a0requires a full day. I won’t lie you if I tell you that this site is probably one of the best tours I’ve ever done just with the waterfalls of Iguazu in northern Argentina, the Grand Canyon in Colorado (USA) and Mt.Cook New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\"Dins

Inside the boat on the way to\u00a0P.N.Torres del Paine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

As it’s known than the images worth more than thousand words I leave you quite a large collection of our visit to Torres del Paine National Park and Bernardo O’Higgins National Park<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Las

Las Torres del Paine<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"T\u00e8mpan

Iceberg on the Grey Lake. P.N. Torres del Paine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Glacera

Balmaceda Glacier. P.N. Bernardo O’HIggins\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Llac

Pehoe Lake. P.N.Torres del Paine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seno

Ultima Esperanza fjord from Puerto Natales\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Del

From the shelter\u00a0Las Torres to the shelter\u00a0Los Cuernos. P.N.Torres del Paine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Glacera

Serrano Glacier. P.N. Bernardo O’HIggins\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Seno

\u00a0Ultima Esperanza Fjord from Puerto Natales\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"P.N.

P.N. Torres del Paine<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Los

Los Cuernos. Torres del Paine<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\"Los

Los Cuernos. Torres del Paine<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

The articles I’v written related with Chile are:<\/span><\/p>\n

LA COVA DEL MILODON<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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