Lake Pehoe - from Condor Nest Hill
Another stunning view.
After the first hike, we stopped at Park Headquarters to see the model of the entire park. We were able to see where the glaciers, wild horse area and hikes we had taken to the base of the Torres del Paine were in the park in relation to EcoCamp and our routes into the park. In our five full days of park experience, we only barely dipped our toes into the entire park. How beautiful it was!
In park headquarters, a wall that listed some of the flora and fauna in Torres del Paine National Park.
At the top of the hill on the last hike in Patagonia.
That night after cleaning up, doing another yoga class in the dome and another marvelous dinner at EcoCamp, we adjourned to the larger dome with the bar and Claudio taught all who were willing a Chilean card game called Chancho. It was a riot. Here are the rules if you are interested but it might be something you had to be there to appreciate!
Rules for
Chancho
To start:
Take a deck
of cards and make a set of 4 (for example: 4 Queens, 4 Kings) for each person
playing the game.
Shuffle the
cards and deal out to each player.
Choose a
dealer.
The dealer
deals out the cards in rotation to each player and calls the action.
Possible
calls:
· Pass one to the right.
· Pass two to the right.
· Pass one to the left.
· Pass two to the left.
· All in.
When one
person gets 4 of a kind, he or she calls “Chancho!!” and puts his or her hand
in the middle. All others pile on.
The person
with the hand on top i.e. the last person to notice that someone has yelled “Chancho!”
loses. The person who called “Chancho!” takes a marker and puts the first
letter of the word Chancho on the loser’s arm. The first person to have the
entire word Chancho on his or her arm (or forehead if you are really daring!)
loses the game.
