PATAGONIA, Torres del Paine National Park: Smart Travel Guide For Nature Lovers, Hikers, Trekkers, Photographers (Wilderness Explorer) Paperback – July 3, 2025

If you are a hiker, trekker, nature lover, landscape photographer or an adventure seeker, this travel guide will help you to plan and realize your dream - visiting the most wonderful, unearthly beautiful and rugged national park in Patagonia – Torres del Paine National Park, Chile. This book is the 3rd edition of my travel guide. I have updated: 1) all factual information, prices, conditions, timetables for the current hiking season 2025-26; 2) improved all topographic hiking maps to the highest possible quality level, rich in details and technical info for hikers; 3) added hiking scenarios for classical W and O treks, as well as a budget version where you can save substantial amount of money. The guide contains 15 topo hiking maps in total, covering around 20 trails. This is the most complete "smart" travel guide I made so far to explore wilderness, rough Andean landscapes, Patagonian unique nature and wildlife – it will make you much more efficient as a hiker, photographer and traveler. The book contains 100+ GPS coordinates of important to know places, 50+ website links, covering all the important campsites, hostels, refugios, hotels, viewpoints, trails, key tourist attractions. All trekking topo maps are in full color, with technical information for hikers like distance (km and miles), hiking time, elevation gain and loss, altitude profiles, difficulty, trail landmarks. The book describes how to get in/out the park (by bus or plane), all park’s up-to-date rules and entrance fees, then how to design your trekking route and how to book all accommodation in the park. In addition to popular “W” and “O” trekking circuits in the park, I give information about another 4 less-known, secret “off-the-beaten-pass” trails with hiking maps for each. I also give all the details for wild and paid camping, hotels, hostels, domes, cabins, food stores, roads conditions, travel scenarios, public buses, catamarans, prices for touristic services, paid tours, kayaking, horseback riding. At the end of the guide, I give detailed information what kind of wild animals and where you can meet in the park (puma, condors, huemul, guanaco, fox) and their behavior. I also describe where you can find fossils from Jurassic Era of ichthyosaurs, of a large prehistoric marine dolphin-like predator, or to see ancient cave paintings of indigenous tribes lived here 3000-8000 years ago. S U M M A R Y1) 15 topo detailed hiking maps for W and O circuits, and other routes, 20 trails in total;2) 100+ GPS coordinates for trailheads and trail landmarks;3) Technical information for each trail (distance, gain and loss in altitude, elevation profile, complexity… etc);4) Detailed description for each hiking route, and where to stay overnight;5) All accommodation in the park with up-to-date (2025-26 hiking season) prices and conditions (campsites, refugios, hostels, hotels, domes, cabins) and how to book them;6) How to get to the park by public bus, plane (fares, schedules);7) Navigation in park’s lagoons with modern catamarans (fares, schedules);8) 50+ web links related to travel in the park and Patagonia;9) Where to meet wildlife in the park;10) How to survive hiking in Patagonia – a survival guide for hikers;11) Color printed inside on high quality paper, with a glance cover, compact 6x9 in (15.2x22.8 cm), lightweight, robustly made book format, which can fit into any backpack. Read more