1 March 2006

Torres Del Paine: Paine Grande

Day 155 – Tuesday 21st February 2006

I woke up slightly stiff, but after 10 hours sleep I felt good and ready for another hike. The only hike I had to do for the day was to make my way back down to campsite Paine Grande (where I had got off the catamaran the day before).

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Torres Del Paine: Glacier Grey

Day 154 – Monday 20th February 2006

I woke up half an hour before my alarm and lay awake wondering if I had forgotten anything for my 5 day trek to the Torres del Paine National Park. It was a pretty futile exercise as at 6am even if I had forgotten anything I wouldn’t have been able to go and buy it.

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Puerto Natales: Preparing for the Hike

Days 151 to 153 - Friday 17th to Sunday 19th February 2006

Having Jones as my surname I felt it would only be proper to visit the old Welsh communities in Patagonia. Trelew and Gaiman are about an hour south of Puerto Madryn. That wasn’t my only reason for visiting, I had heard they made a decent cup of tea - something severly lacking in Central and South America.

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