From Torres del Paine to El Calafate

As some people complained about the fact that we don't give news that often, we'll try to try to maybe do better... But it's very unlikely that we'll do more! Well, we were absolutely outraged to see that the camping site at 2500m in the Parc nacionales Torres del Paine didn't have connection!!

So, since last time... we took a bus to Puerto Natales and arrived at night at 9pm. Of course, we didn't know where to sleep (we hate to know in advance what's going to happen :)). So we get off the bus, wait for a bit, and then a girl is coming to us and is asking us if we want to sleep at her place. Hum... so, before Amance had the time to say something, I was like: Yes, of course! So, we find ourselves in a big family house, with everybody talking to us (in a language that seems still unknown to us). They invited us for a crazy barbecue. They offered us crazy drinks (Amance told me not to mention them, scared of being killed by some members of his family). So we drunk and ate, again and again, we talked to them, they talked to us, I don´t think any of us were talking about the same thing, but the atmosphere was really really nice...until we realize that it was 2am and that we have to wake up 4hours later for... 4 days of trekking.

On the following morning, we meet on the way to the park a very nice British-French girl (oh, no she will read the blog and she told us she makes an amazing chocolate cake), sorry, an amazing girl, studying in Santiago, as well as a couple of 2 Germans. After exchanging few words, going through the storms, rain, and cold (the weather was very moody this first day) we eventually made it to the camp. And though we first thought that a tent for 2 could just fit 2 people, we got it wrong. This mysterious girl joined us for 2 nights. And we went on in this adventure, from the glacier delivering huge ice blocks (some being, as we didn't expect, amazingly blue) in the lake, to the astonishing views from the Valle del Frances (our valley, yes!!) and the immense Torres, big mountains forming very high towers.


Thank you for those who wrote the comments and who are supporting me in the hard task of convincing Amance to jump (especially Ida!). Well, I think I have another challenge. I want him to cut his hairs before I really scream on the morning, thinking that I am Han Solo waking up with Chewbaca!! or worse... that I stayed on the island in Ushuaia (or in CP Zoo for Moumou) and that I´m waking up with a huge unshaved sea lion... Just talking about it, I´m going to have nightmares tonight.. Oh, and I need to say that Amance did a great job in improving his communication skills, with an amazing question to start a conversation with two roommates: a very quick and memorable whr fom?. It´s very sad we cannot attach audio files...


We keep saying that the pictures will come soon. They will, but... we may have a different perspective of time here :).
We are going tomorrow (we still need to book, and it´s only 10.30pm here) to Perito Moreno, an amazing glaciar, apparently very close, where you can see huge blocks of ice craking and falling in the water. We´ll then head to El Chalten, another beautiful site for a 3 or 4 days trek.

Special thanks to The Ball, without whom all this wouldn´t have happened :)

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