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Torres del Paine National Park Patagonia

The tip of Patagonia - Fin del Munde - is home to the Torres del Paine National Park and the third biggest ice field in the world. Breathtaking beautuful, pristine, majustic and raw, it's one of the most desolate and memorable places I have ever visited. And definitely not for sissies!

The highly endangered Patagonian antelope, the huemul (hway-mul) - only 3 000 left in the world and 44 in Tirres.

The glaciers are melting at a rate of 100m a year so get there soon!

The three 'blue towers' (Torres del Paine) that give the park its name


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Kate Turkington is one of South Africa’s best-known broadcasters, travellers and travel writers. From Tibet to Thailand, Patagonia to Peru, Kashmir to Kathmandu, St Helena to St Albans, the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, like Shakespeare’s Puck she has girdled the world. She continues to travel when and where she can but Johannesburg is home where she writes and blogs in print and on social media.

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