oh yeah this is what it was all about...oh yeah the torres...

Day 7. We elect to stay in bed at 4am rather than climb up the mountain to see the Torres in the light of a sunrise. I hear that it turns a really nice red then orange then yellow. Even spoke with and saw photos from people who had dared the 3 hour limb in the dark. Not for us. I did contemplate it for a short time until I worked out that - if you can see the top of the Torrres from the hostal then you would see them go red from the hostal. So, today we climbed to the Torres in daylight, very nice but difficult climb even in the light of day and then took a nice 4 hour return walk to Camp Japonese. This is a climbers only camp well into the valley de silencio. Basically we follow the river upstream through the forest to the camp and climb over several moraines as we go.

everyone should vist the torres...

Day 8 after another night in nice bed we are woken at 6:30am to see the mountain go red. We didn’t carry an alarm or phone so we asked our roommates to wake us. I elected to not take any photos as it would be cheating just a little. Later in the morning we walk back down to Camp Las Torres. Beautiful views down the valley the whole way. Arriving around 1pm we have a light lunch pitch our brave little tent once more and spend the rest of the afternoon - warm and sunny - lying in the sun and sun baking. A really nice way to end our hiking through the national park. We are able to cook up feast that night because tomorrow night we will be back in Puerto Natales for Pizza again.

Day 9. Bus back to Puerto Natales. The first bus out is not until 2pm so we have to hang around for a bit. Omah is happy to see us again and has room available for us. He even organises our bus tickets for El Calafate, our next destination. We stay with him for two nights so we can get all our clothes washed before we head off again. We return our brave little tent after having rented it for ten days. Have a good feed of vegetables and a steak and we are off again.