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It's been only two weeks since I added my last entry, so I don't have that much to tell.. I'm flying to Buenos Aires in 7 hours, and that's closing the chapter "wind and cold" for me. This post will al be about glaciers and insane walks in the national park of torres del paine.
The Villarrica Volcano close to Pucon was a highlight so far. We were totally lucky with the weather on the day of our excursion, the sun came out exactly afer we were standing at the volcano's fett and had decided that we wanted to do the climb and not go back to the van. In full gear, with crampons and ice-pick, we climbed for 4 hours towards the smoke, A sea of clouds was waiting for us at the top and a slight sulfuric smell, which I wasn't able to claim for myself... The way down was faster than the climbing: we wore gigantic diapers-thingies on our bottoms and slided on our bottoms through the slopes. Now i can add glacier-sickness to my travel sicknesses...
The Perito Moreno Glacier trip was fun aswell, we could walk exactly along of it's east and north side hearig the crackings and seeing massive ice-blocks falling into the water making loud noises. The wall touching the lake is up to 70m high, it's like a 22 stories building collapsing. Every boys dream..
On the Viedma Glacier we did some iceclimbing. It's harder than it looks. :) Our guides tought us the technique: climb like an "X". I never have ever seen a "X" climbing, so I did it in a proper "butt out and pretend you shat yourself" way. They were pretty content to see that it didn't actually happen.
Odin, my best mate on the trip, managed to get himself locked up in prison for smashing a window with some south african fellows on his birthday. As we woke up and saw his empty bed and the police car in front of our hostel, it wasn't that difficult to guess that he might have spent the night in prison. We had to leave h9m there in order to stay on schedule, so he had to travel all by himself and try to find us. Without any informations of where we would stay in the gigantic national parc, only asking for a big yellow truck. His spanish is limited to: cerveza, hola, gracias, chica linda, puta, e varie altre simpatiche descrizioni per ragazze.
The torres del paine National Park was closes until 1 week before we got there because of srtikes, so we were totally lucky to be there. The weather was freezing cold and windy. We had an awesome time at the camping. We did a couple of treks out of the reccomended "W-Trek". Odin, Sophie and I were once again late on time: we started walking at 10:30 so we had to run the Frances-Trek (30 km - 11 h reccomended). We had a half an hour break on top of the lookout and got back in 6 hours. Enough time to grab a hot chocolate and take care of the blisters, before we got the last ferry leaving at 18:00.
As we left the National Park the rear axle of our truck broke down, so we had to continue on public transport. Not for the pleasure of the few chileans and argentinians sharing their bus trip with us. So we finally managed to get to Ushuaia - the end of the world. There isn't a lot here: a boat to sail closer to the end of the world. And beavers.
Hope your teeth are still healthy and intact, lots of kisses
mEo
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