TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK
Sep 11, 2019
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There are some national parks that are in the essential-to-see-before-you-die category: Yosemite (USA), or Zhangjiajie National Forest Park (China), for example. And then, there’s Torres del Paine in Chile’s Patagonia region. Part of a vast wilderness area, it straddles the ice fields at the foot of the Andes and incorporates immense glaciers, clear turquoise lakes, expansive grasslands and forests, and a dramatic mountainscape so iconic, it probably already feels familiar to you from magazine pages such as these.
The three famous, immense buttresses of rock, the park’s namesake Torres
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