{"id":33608,"date":"2018-03-30T13:10:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/highlights\/torres-del-paine\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T08:09:32","slug":"torres-del-paine","status":"publish","type":"highlights","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/latin-america\/chile\/torres-del-paine","title":{"rendered":"Torres del Paine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Glaciers, fjords and lakes in southern Chile<\/h2>\n<div><strong>Torres del Paine<\/strong> in the southern part of Chilean Patagonia is one of South America&#8217;s most beautiful national parks. The landscape of the park is dominated by the Painemassief with the granite towers (torres), to which the park is named.<\/div>\n<h4>Walking<\/h4>\n<div>In the park there are numerous clear hiking trails. The most popular route is the <strong>W circuit<\/strong> that connects the highlights of the park, the Grey Glacier, the Valle Frances, the blue lakes, Los Cuernos (the &#8220;horns&#8221;) and the granite Torres. We are happy to arrange this draw or other draws for you; all transport, tractor cabins and meals \u2013 you just have to enjoy.<\/div>\n<h4>Wildlife<\/h4>\n<div>The lower parts of the park are excellent for wildlife; along the <strong>&#8216;Sendero de la Fauna&#8217;<\/strong> \u00a0 you will find the beautiful spectacle of <strong>guanacos<\/strong> (a llama species), foxes and many birds with the &#8216;torres&#8217; in the background. This is also a very good location to spot the mighty <strong>condors.<\/strong> Although not easy to observe, we would like to advise you in the exclusive possibilities to spot the <strong>cougar.<\/strong><\/div>\n<h4>Sailing through the park<\/h4>\n<div>Also sailing by ship, canoe and\/or zodiac in and around the park is spectacular \u00a0 \u2013 along the mighty Grey glacier, over the Serrano River overlooking the ice fields or through the fjords with sea lions, cormorants and who knows the king of the Andes, the mighty condor&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of South America&#8217;s most beautiful national parks is Torres del Paine, in southern Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":192282,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[241],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[224],"class_list":["post-33608","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-chile","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-latin-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238088,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/33608\/revisions\/238088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=33608"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=33608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}