Day 5 - Torres del Paine

Today was spent exploring from our hotel into Torres del Paine national park. In the morning we went north east over the pot-holed, gravelly, juddering roads, stopping at various view points over Lago Pehoe, Lago Sarmiento, Lago Nordenskjold, past the Cascada Paine to Laguna Azul and back.

Along the way we saw a variety of wildlife. Lots of unconcerned guanacos, a small number of Chilean flamingos, various other birds (a pair of condors high in the distance) and one mountain lion.

We went back to the hotel for lunch and in the afternoon went to Lago Grey, looking north over the lake to the corresponding glacier.

We got back just 10 minutes before the scheduled dinner time and, as usual, we were pretty tired by the end of the day. No reading or anything like that and as I write this Lynn has already fallen asleep.