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Mayuresh

With our goal to complete W trek, we shifted to east side of the trek. Grey glacier is another point on the W trek, and on the other side of the Towers. This is a massive 28km long glacier that is part of the southern Patagonia icefield. This is the furthest away from EcoCamp. This trek though it is an easy 2 km walk, reaching there took almost 2 hours of bus ride.

This gave us a chance to see many guanacos again.

Since the road goes to a different part of the park, we got to see different views of the mountains.

The bus ride took us along Lake Nordenskold and Lake Pehoe, and one of the famous old hotel on one of the lakes. The hotel is so beautifully located, we took many pictures here. The water was so clear that I was able to see the trout from about 150ft away.

You can easily see the color difference in the two lakes. One has glacial silt while the other does not.

We saw very rarely seen American kestrel on the way again.

We reached Grey lake and after 2 km walk boarded the catamaran. The boat ride was comfortable and we saw all the three sections of the Grey Glacier. The blue colors were vivid.

Onboard the catamaran, we shared maté with expedition team and introduced them to our Indian snacks.

We had to then retrace all our steps back and had couple of stops on the way back. The first stop was just a restroom stop but we happened to see one of the rarest birds in Patagonia.

The final stop was to see this gorgeous waterfall.

We got back to our Camp just in time for dinner.