1 TORRES DEL PAINE
The view from our Hotel Paine, at the Torres del Paine National Park entrance
The view from our Hotel Paine, at the Torres del Paine National Park entrance
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3 The front of the hotel
4 The cabin rooms
5 The Andes in this part of Chile are not a continuous range, but broken up into a series of isolated 'massifs' separated by rolling Patagonian steppe. This is the Torres del Paine massif itself.
6 The flags of Chile (R) and Magallanes province
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8 Two of the famous three slender granite tower tops are just visible from here. To see more of them, we will have to move around to a different side of the massif. Technically, this massif is not part of the Andes but is a much younger magmatic intrusion.
9 The pond in front of the hotel...
10 ...has a distinctive feature - a bird's nest
11 The dining room
12 Side seating nook. The WiFi only comes in right here.
13 The weather changes by the minute
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18 Sunrise on the peaks
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10 Patagonia - Torres del Paine Oct 23