Insider Tips for Hiking the W Trek: Now that we’ve completed the W trek, there are a bunch of Insider Tips for Hiking The W Trek West to East that we can share!
Tag: chile
Usted está aquí. You are here. These three words embossed on the corner of the trail map proclaim both our physical arrival at the start of Chile’s famed W Circuit as well as our spiritual.
We’d heard a lot about the bus ride over the Andes mountain range from Santiago to Mendoza with its famous ’29 curves’, and it didn’t disappoint.
Central Chile is only about 200km wide. While Santiago is in the foothills of the Andes, a short two hour drive finds you on the shores of the South Pacific at Valparaiso, and nearby Vina del Mar.
Our guide screws up his face, waves his arms, contorts his body and generates remarkable sound effects to help make his points. He brings the bottle he’s casually holding up from his side and mimics pulling the cork out of the bottle, replete with the matching ‘thrrwwwp – pwap’ sound.