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The South American Odyssey

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    Break at Villa Cerro Castillo

    17 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    It was almost 5 pm when we reached Villa Cerro Castillo. This is one of the venues we had on our itinerary for a trek into the mountains. But we had decided to do it on the way back since it takes a full day to do it.
    Now, we just stopped for some snacks and tea/coffee. The 3 people we were giving a ride realized that we were driving all the way to Rio Tranquilo and asked if they could come along. We didn't have a problem with that. They too had their meal and then we were off again.
    The views of the granite peaks were stunning and we all were looking forward to stop for the trek on the way back. We were hoping that the skies would be clearer when we do the trek so we could see the beautiful peaks.    Okumaya devam et

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    Lago General Carrera

    17 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    The road continued along the Rio Murta till we reached Lago General Carrera. The lake is easily recognized by the milky blue color of its water. The color is due to the marble stone found all along the shores and even below the water. Even at the late hour of 8:30 pm, with hardly any sunlight, we could still see the blue shade of the water.
    General Carrera Lake (Chilean side, officially renamed in 1959) or Lake Buenos Aires(Argentine side) is a lake located in Patagonia and shared by Argentina and Chile. Both names are internationally accepted. The lake has a surface of 1,850 km² of which 970 km² are in the Chilean side and 880 km² in the Argentina making it the biggest lake in Chile, and the fourth largest in Argentina. In its western basin, Lake Gen. Carrera has 586 m maximum depth. The lake is of glacial origin and is surrounded by the Andes mountain range.    Okumaya devam et

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    Cabaña SilvanaThe bedroomKitchen in the cabaña

    Puerto Rio Tranquilo

    17 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    There were some very lovely views of the Lago General Carrera from the road. It was getting a bit late and we didn't have a booking so we continued without stopping. We reached Puerto Rio Tranquilo around 9:15 pm. After searching around for a while, we chose to stay at Cabañas Silvana. We negotiated the price down to 40000 CLP per night for the 4 of us, for 2 nights. The cabaña had its own parking and a nice small kitchen with a fireplace. It was a bit chilly in the evening so we lit the fire and went for our dinner. Here too Melinda felt a bit claustrophobic among the bunk beds so she moved her mattress out to the living room.Okumaya devam et

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    Off for the Marble Caves

    18 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    In the morning, we woke up a bit late. Melinda prepared a quinoa soup and pasta from the remains of the packets we had been carrying for the last few days. It was almost 1:30 pm when we were done with the food.After that, we went around the town trying to find the options to do the Marble Caves tour and the San Rafael glacier walk. After some searching around, we found that all of the operators were having the same price. We had got prices from 55000 CLP to 70000 CLP per person for the glacier walk from the tourist information office in Coyhaique but we found out quickly that those were for the previous year. Now all of them had ganged up and it was not possible to get it for below 70000 CLP per person. Similarly, the boat operators for the Marble Caves too had ganged up and were not ready to go below 10000 CLP per person. We even tried negotiating with a combined package of glacier walk and marble cave but except one who offered 75000 CLP pp combined, none of the others reduced even a bit. This one offering it for 75000 had groups as big as 14-16 people while the others were capping the groups at 7-8 max. So, we decided to go with the actual ones doing the glacier walk.
    After booking the glacier walk for the next day, we wanted to do the marble caves in the remaining time of the day. Here we had a split opinion, Melinda and I wanted to do it in the afternoon since the weather was ok and there was a clearing in the sky towards where the caves were. Maria and Hristo wanted to do it a day after the glacier walk early in the morning since the caves look much better in the early morning sun according to the blogs we had read. Looking at how the weather had been since we started in Patagonia, I didn't want to take a chance for the day after morning and wanted to make the best of the good weather we had now. Before we could make up our minds, Melinda, who was hungry, went to a restaurant nearby and ordered lunch. It was 3 pm now, so we all too ordered food and decided see after the food if we would have enough time to do the boat ride to the marble caves. It was almost 4:30 pm when we finished with the food. We were still contemplating what to do whether to do the marble caves today or after a day when one of the boat owners came over and offered to take us at 8000 CLP per person. This was the cheapest offer we had got so we decided to go for it now.
    The boat operators had a fantastic way of accepting payments by card. They would take the person wanting to pay by card to the petrol pump and ask for the fuel equivalent of the total money you owe them. They would fill up the jerry cans with the fuel amd you could swipe your card and pay for them. Neat.. Eh??
    After spending another 15 min with Melinda trying to pay with her card at the fuel pump and failing, Maria went and paid with her card. Then around 5 pm, we were off to the marble caves.    Okumaya devam et

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    The choppy ride

    18 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    The lake was very choppy. The wind was pretty high. Our boat was flying through the air every few seconds. It was a fast boat but the waves were huge and we had a nice roller-coaster ride all the way. The lake is extremely blue and has a soft, smooth milky texture mainly due to the marble particles in the water.Okumaya devam et

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    Marble hills

    18 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ 🌬 24 °C

    20 minutes from the port, we reached the marble hills. The whole hills are made from marble. The base of the hills are eroded by the waves in the lake to form small caves. The first ones we saw were at the tip of the península. These were small but still fascinating with beautiful shades of white looking amazing in contrast to the blue of the lake.Okumaya devam et

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    Vista Los LeonesLago Negro and Lago General Carrera

    Off to La Confluencia

    18 Ocak 2018, Şili ⋅ 🌧 17 °C

    Back in Rio Tranquilo, we still had about 2.5 hours of sunlight left so we decided to drive South upto La Confluencia to see the confluence of the river Baker and river Nef. The confluence is about 80 kms from Puerto Rio Tranquilo so we knew we would make it before sunset.
    The route is quite scenic. We passed the Mirador for the Los Leones vista. Its a beautiful view of the snow covered mountain peaks. After that, we continued on the Carretera Austral till just before Aldana where we turned off the Carretera Austral to the right towards Lago Negro. Here, there is a stunning viewpoint of the Lago Negro and the blue colored Lago General Carrera behind.
    We reached the confluence at about 8:30 pm just as the sun was setting.    Okumaya devam et

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