December 27, 2005 - Day 4, Refugio El Chileno: This was mostly all up up up up. Felt very tired after today´s trek. There wasn´t as much lush vegetation today as there was yesterday, but the sites were still impressive, since we were at a fairly high elevation. We had great views of the relatively flat terrain below and the last view of the lake.



We arrived at Refugio El Chileno in the later afternoon. The refugio is situated in a very beautiful area - overlooking a river, which is fed by the glacier melt water.



We enjoyed the companies of a couple of South Africans from Cape Town and our friend Karin, an Austrian working in Santiago for a few months. Really fun and interesting personality.

Had a nice meal at the refugio. Ziad kicked my ass at chess.