We drove about 100 km to Torres Del Paine National Park. We left a bit early to try to get good views of the mountains and hoped to see a puma. Once we arrived at Torres Del Paine we took the long route thru the park and saw many wonderful sights but no pumas. Tibor purchased tickets to the park yesterday so it was a simple matter of showing them the pass at the checkpoint and we were into the park.
The geology was interesting. There is a black cap of metamorphic rock on top of granite. And there were rows of harder rock interspersed with softer rocks. Some of the large peaks look knife edged.
We drove around so much of the park we were very worried about running out of gas. We actually turned around and didn’t go to Laguna Azul in order to conserve gas. There were no gas stations between Puerto Natales and Torres Del Paine- that we saw at least and we forgot to fill up before we left Puerto Natales. Tibor was very careful of his speed, used the downhill speed to get uphill, and manually shifted. He increased the liters per gallon from 14.3 to 15.7 so we made it back to town without running out of gas. Whew!
