Day 4 Torres del Paine W-Circuit

The forth day brought us straight from Camping Francés to Camping Chileno (for our last night in the park!) in 16 km. While the weather was okay during the first part of the trek along the beautifully blue lake Nordenskjöld (with a coffe break at the super cute campsite of Cuernos, where we regretted booking Francés instead of this one) it shifted from a bit of sunshine to rain to snow very quickly - just how the Patagonian weather is supposed to act 😉 On one hand, we were a tad diasppointed to miss out on the views on the valley leading to our final campsite, but on the other hand there was SO much snow it created this beautiful and wonderfully quiet winter wonderland which made it hard to be upset about it 🥰 Also, because the last 3 km leading to the campsite were quite the ascend, we were not cold at all 😄
The campsite itself was a nice one - tucked in at the side of the valley, the tents in between trees (on a wooden platform - a challenge that was a first for us, but luckily we were prepared and brought screws!) and a rather big restaurant where we could spend some time warming up before it was closed for the prebooked restaurant service. Again we arrived at the campsite rather early (approx. 15:30) and had quite some time to spare (in the cold 🥶) and chat with our fellow sufferers / hikers after pitching our tent. But as we planned an even earlier start than usual on our final day (sunrise here we come!), we also went to bed very early and were able to get some solid 7 hours of sleep once our tent neighbours stopped serenading the night with their snoring 😉Read more