Torres Del Paine

This amazing nature park hidden in the south of chili is worth to visit, but to make an reservation is everyone’s headache. This is the reason that we love to help you to get your trip orgenized for your adventure. Our tips can make your trip just as amazing as ours, or even better!

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Everything they tell you about the park is true, what you find on the internet is true, how you think its gonna be, its gonna be. This amazing park its so beautiful, every hour the landshape is changing, the color of the lakes are changing from green, blue, dark blue to silver. The water from the rivers is clear to drink, the wheater can be cold, hot, rainy or windy and diverent every hour/day. yes its hard to make it reservate, and the prices are expancief, and yes the park is busy. but it worth it, you make friends here, people who you met on the boat till your way back on the bus and the most important a photo don’t speak, but the nature here does and enjoy it!!!

Important to know:

• The reservations of your campsites take time. you”ll need to wait for there response.

• Its expancief

• If tuff

• Cooking and fire is not allowed! ( you can cook in some designated locations but only and an electric cooking stove)

• If you dont have a reservation and you can not make one anymore at the park, you’ll have to leave, so be prepaired.

• High season ocktober-starting, november till march – high season, april – ending season

• And the information we give is about the W-track, its also to use for the other tracks but i dont a the full information for this ones.

• You have to make for every track a reservation for ventice and fantasic sur, the campsites are on different places.

• Keep yourself to the rules of the park, one of them don’t hike in overnight.

• When you are walking its hot, when you sit still sleep it can be really cold

• For the entrance of the park you don’t have to make and reservation.

• Bus you have to reservate in front at least one day. there are a lot of companys who sell bus rides. we had Bus Gomez because they offer a open 2 way ticket.

Hostel Puerto Natales:

Try to look for a hostel in Natales who can help you with your last things for the park, the last reservation, information about the weather, help you with the supermarket of bustickets, they also can help you to find the offices from vertice Patagonia and from fantastic sur. Some of them also offer transfer to the park or rental stuf. Ask them also to store your stuff for a view day for a low price or free if you stay an other night when you come back.

Paying:

• Entrance: if there is internet connection you can pay by creditcard otherwise cash

• Catamaran: only cash

• Transfer/shuttle: only cash

• Shops/campsites inside the park: you can pay with credit card and cash

• Reservations online: paypal or creditcard

• Bus: for the bus to the park you have to make reservation inside the terminal, some of them accept only cash and some creditcards

For the sunrise:

Its only possible to see the sunrise if you stayed at the park. there are 3 nice spots to see the sunrise. first one is ofcours the torres del paine, second is in the center of the park, lookout britanico. And the thirt one is on the glacier Grey. for al the sunrises with the one on the torres as the best one, its the most easy way to start at a campsite close by and leave early in the morning. ( more info at the campsites )

Food:

Its possible to buy your food inside the park, ofcourse this is more expencief then buying it outside. its allowed to bring all food insite, but don’t trow plastic insite the park, and cook only of restricted area’s, the bill is high. If you get the change to buy your stuf before you enter Puerto Natales its even more cheap and probelly you get more choice, almost every hiker buy his stuf here, so the most stuf is sold out. And buy smart, take a cup or jerrycan for the water from the rivers, don’t buy this!!! its good to drink. and nuts or vitamines.

Its also to buy food at your campsite, its really expancief. and some also sell everyday some extra meals for people who did not reservate this. If you rent out of your own food its also possible to buy some small food or at some of the big refugios they also sell some break or pizza for small prices.

Catamaran:

You don’t have to make an reservation for the catamaran and your bus transfer from Puerto Natales wil bring you to the lake and start of the catamaran. it takes about one hour and will bring you to the campside paine grande. its only possible to pay inside the catamaran with cash, 18000 pesos.

TIP’s to make reservations:

• Start with making your route and knowing the date you want to go.

• Then when you know your date, start making reservations at the campsites from vertice Patagonia, you have to send them an email and there response can be weeks to months. if it takes to long or didn’t get response, its always possible to make an reservation at there office inside Puerto Natales or inside the park, they always have space and its possible to pay with credit and debitcard.

• After this you have to try to make an reservation at Campo Italiano ( Conaf ) this free campsite if most of the time already full because everyone like to stay here. its in the center of the park. if it is not possible anymore then you can go just hike another 30 min and go to Frances ( Fantastic sur )

• Fantastico sur have a lot of campsites and a good webpages with a good view of there offers. look here for where you want to stay and how you want to stay, in a rental tent or your own, refugio and with or without a meal. this one you can also reservate just 1 day in front. they only accept paypal in there webpage

• Bus tickets you can buy to 1 day infront. on the day self you can also try or look around for tranfers

• Catamaran and the entrance of the park you cant reservate and you have to pay inside the park/boot.

• Transfer from Basecamp to the entrence you have to pay at tourtist shop from the basecamo, the tranfers leaves from here.

Reservate campsites:

What companys we have: the campsite companys, locations and price.

• Fantastic sur: east side of the park ( expancief ) fantasticosur.com

• Conaf: center part of the park ( free ) www.conaf.cl/parques/parque-nacional-torres-del-paine/

• Vertice Patagonia: west side of the park ( middel class) www.verticepatagonia.com

Fantastic sur:

This is a big company inside the park with a lot of places to stay overnight. its smart for a 3 to five day stay in the park to sleep here 1 or 2 nights. the easy to reservate online on there webpage, but to only way to pay is by Paypal, youll have to make an account.

Campsites & Refugios:

• The campsites: Central campsite ( basecamp ), Frances el chileno, los Cuernos, Francis & Seron ( o-trek

• the Refugios: Torres north ( basecamp ), el Chileno, los Curenos & Seron (o-trek)

Why stay where:

• Basecamp: you can start here your trail or come here to stay for the night. this place has a lot of space if everything is fully booked, here is also a bar, store and restaurant. Wifi and tourtist shop. And for the ones who want to see the sunrise on the torres its possible to go from here. the sunrise is about 6/6:30 am. Te walk is really tuff and around 4 hours. if you leave about 2 AM its possible. Take water and suger and a light for the tuff hike in the night and its possible to leave you tent downstairs, tis is possible and no problem. rember you are never alone, there are a lot people who do this, also from the campsite chileno and the foxes are also a wake.

• Chileno: here you are already on the foot of the torres. a lot of people stay here for the hike to the top. only problem at this campsite is that breakfast is always included. the hike is around 2 hours, look for information at basecamp. also if you come back from the sunrise take a hot drink at the restaurant for a hot drink, its cold on the top.

• Frances: this is a campsite just a bit to the right of the center of the W-track. at this campsite its easy to make an reservation when there is no space anymore in campsite Italiano ( Conaf ) or Los Cuernos. they also have tents to rent and a shop like al other campsites from fantastic sur. If you start from the right side of the park and moving on to the ventice side of the park its a good campsite to go to the Britanico lookout, whatch out its also a tuff hike and the most high point inside the park.

• Los Cuernos: this campsite is between the farm ( basecamp ) and frances. its on a center on a long hike and nice to stay here. also here possible to get a coffee or buy a snack.

• Seron: we didn’t been here its for the O-Track

Conaf:

They don’t have a lot places to stay inside the park, but they own the park. and be shure you reservate at there campsites.

Campsites: Campo Italiano

Why stay here:

• Campo Italiano: its free to stay at this campsite. but they don’t let you in if you have no reservation. they don’t have a hot shower and no wifi, but its free. this is inside the center of the W-track and just a small walk to the Britanico lookout. for a reservation you have to be early and go to there webpage, if they don’t have place don’t worry campsites enouph around.

• Ranger post: the park if from Conaf ( chili ) they have some post around the park, here they can ask you for your reservation most of the time if you walk with a backpack or a tent, they want you to not camp in the wild. if there are a lot of people you have more change they ask you for your reservation and they don’t let you true if you don’t have.

Ventice:

This park company runes the left side of the park of the W-track and O-track. they have a view campsites and refugios there. If you want to contact them for a reservation take your time for this. 2 months at least. they only response by email or make a reservation at there shop inside Puerto Natales.

Campsites & refugios: Paine grande, Grey, Los Perros ( O-track ), Dicksons ( O-track ).

• Paine grande: This is the first campside where you whil enter if you go with the catamaran. at this campsite its also possible to make reservation for the campsites from vertice Patagonia inside the park you can pay with cash and cards. they almost always have space here. from here you can go 3 ways. first to the Glacier grey, second the center of the W ( campo italiano ) of back to the catamaran. If you want to do the classic trail you will also start here. its possible to go in one day to the mirador and back down to the camp ( 13 km one way ), but this is tuff, it also possible to go halfway to mirador lago grey ( 8 km one way ) with view over the lake and the glacier. or stay at campside Grey ( 11km )

• Grey: at this beautiful campsite its easy to go to the mirador grey. where you will be close infront of the glacier. or make a small hike on the O-track to the second bridge and walk next to the glacier. or go ice hiking, its all possible in this campsite.

• Los Perros & Dicksons: O-track

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