Our bus lingers on dusty, unpaved roads taking occasional stops to admire alert groups of guanacos, graceful pink flamingos, and curious reas (ostridge like birds). We have been driving for about an hour and I was asking myself "where are those famous Torres?" when our guide exclaimed: "Here they are, the famed Torres del Paine".
Rugged, majestic blocs of granite, shoot out towards the deep blue sky, their peaks embraced by gentle, fluffy clouds. They are indeed towers, or "torres", probably guarding a fabled passage of gods.
We arrive from Puerto Natales and enter the park via Porteria Y Guarderia Laguna Amarga and witness immediately the beauty and splendor of the Paine Massif – a range independent from the Andean one, formed some 12 million years ago when granite pluton penetrated through a crack in the Magellan’s basin.
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