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On Saturday we were picked up by the Patagonia Camp van late in the afternoon for the 5 hour drive northeast from Punta Arenas to the hotel near Torre del Paines National Park.\u00a0 Patagonia Camp consists of 18 “designer”\u00a0yurts\u00a0on the southern coast of Toro Lake, Chile’s 3rd largest lake which is fed by the nearby Patagonia glaciers.\u00a0Toro Lake has a glorious, turquoise color which makes it even more scenic.\u00a0 This part of our adventure would be 3 days of hiking around the national park with different views of the signature cliffs.\u00a0Our yurt\u00a0sat high above the lake frontage; and, the\u00a0views\u00a0from our\u00a0yurt were mesmerizing.\u00a0\u00a0The yurt was lovely but, at times, with the high Patagonia winds and \u00a0usual nightly downpours, you\u00a0felt like you were either going to slide or be blown into Lake Toro.\u00a0 It actually was quite a fun experience listening to the rain hit the yurt along with\u00a0the winds howling around\u00a0the\u00a0yurt at the same time.\u00a0 (It was quite noisy; so, the hotel provides everyone\u00a0with earplugs as well as blackout masks.)\u00a0 There is a skylight in the yurt above the bed to gaze at the stars; however, the sun comes up around 5:00 a.m. and it feels like the middle of the day.\u00a0 Needless to say, we were\u00a0up quite early every morning.<\/div>\n
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Our first hike on Sunday morning was the Valle Del Frances Trek.\u00a0 It is a 13+ mile trek to Frances Lookout in the\u00a0Frances Valley just below the key peaks. This hike involved a 1.5\u00a0hour van ride\u00a0into the park, a 30 minute boat ride across\u00a0Lake Pehoe\u00a0and an\u00a08 hour hike up and down the mountain.\u00a0\u00a0About three-quarters of the way up the mountain, there is a suspension bridge and a spectacular view of the French Glacier.\u00a0 Across the bridge is a backpackers camp and some roaring waterfalls.\u00a0 At the final viewpoint, we were\u00a0awestruck with imposing views of the magical shapes granite makes into mountains.\u00a0 We only spent a few minutes at the lookout because of the inability to stand with such high winds shooting down the valley.\u00a0 Our arrival back at “Camp” was 12 hours after our 7:45 start.\u00a0 It was an exhilarating and very rewarding day, but we were pretty worn out.\u00a0 We also had to keep up with a darling honeymoon couple in their mid-20’s and our two guides who were 30 years old!\u00a0 We\u00a0had a lovely\u00a0gourmet dinner tonight\u00a0with Chilean wine from the vineyard of the Patagonia Camp owners.<\/div>\n
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\"View<\/a>
View from our yurt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Punta<\/a>
Punta Arenas H.S. Drum Corps – Saturday on the plaza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Soaring<\/a>
Soaring above the Puerto Notales skate park (on the way to glamping)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Torres<\/a>
Torres del Paines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a> \"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"On<\/a>
On the Frances Valley trek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cloudy<\/a>
Cloudy skies are always present<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Glacier-fed<\/a>
Glacier-fed river – grey because of the high mineral content<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Spring<\/a>
Spring time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Frances<\/a>
Frances valley waterfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Clouds<\/a>
Clouds come & GO!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Beautiful<\/a>
Beautiful scenery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Valley<\/a>
Valley from Frances Valley trek – notice the water color differences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A sunny, windy day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Capped<\/a>
Capped with chocolate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"On<\/a>
On the way back for more glamping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cowboys<\/a>
Cowboys herding horses that escaped into the national park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday we were picked up by the Patagonia Camp van late in the afternoon for the 5 hour drive northeast from Punta Arenas to the hotel near Torre del Paines National Park.\u00a0 Patagonia Camp consists of 18 “designer”\u00a0yurts\u00a0on the southern coast of Toro Lake, Chile’s 3rd largest lake which is fed by the nearby … Continue reading Glamping<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Si9J-glamping","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}