Torres del Paine

Apparently Torres del Paine National Park is too far south for Santa to fly on Christmas. He couldn't even bother to deliver us some coal for being naughty; too bad because we could have used it in our cast-iron stove in our eco-dome.

No matter. Who needs presents from Santa when you've got fantastic weather and scenery like this:

We spent the first day here driving around looking at the massif from various different viewpoints.

Then we were taken on a boat ride up to Grey Glacier, which failed to meet our high glacial standards that we developed whilst in Antarctica: not white enough, not calving enough, and we didn't get to hike on it. While everyone else was on deck taking pictures, we stayed inside the boat and caught up on some sleep.

That's right: we're officially glacier snobs.

(Written on Dec 25.)