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The Torres del Paine national park is one of the most well known parks in Patagonia. Situated close to the southern tip of Chile, on the edge of the Andes, it is a beautiful place with stunning granite peaks, lakes, glaciers and unpredictable extreme weather. There are two main trekking routes here, the Circuit which is approximately a nine day loop around the Cordillera del Paine and then there is the more popular W trek, a four or five day trail in the shape of a W. The W trail can be done as a camping t
My original intention was to trek the full circuit but given I was in the shoulder season (March 2014) and the weather was particularly average I decided to only do a four day trek of the W.