Hi Geofriends!
I would like to tell you about one of the most beautiful vacations that i had. I went to Torres del Paine, on the Magallanes Region, and it was a really cool experience! I think that maybe you have listen or seen something about this place, because is one of the most visited landscapes in our country, besides it also appear in the one thousand pesos bill (if some of you have never noticed that). I went there with my sister, she invited me, but both of us planed the trip. First we go to Puerto Natales, a little town that is "close" to the national park, then we start our adventure... In the Torres are 2 recurrent ways to treking, one of them its called the W, because it has like that form, and also there is the O route, that has the W and the north part of the Torres. The first is the most easy way, because it has the Torres del Paine (thats the name of one of the mountains) and the ways are more used for the tourists. The another way, the O, has really difficult parts where you can hurt yourself if you dont go with carefull. In the travel we do that second and difficult way, carring out backpacks with food, a tent (that has to be a strong and little one because of the wind), clothes and equipement to do our treking ready for anything that could happened and to cook our meals. All of those things do the backpacks really heavy, like 25kg or something! that was a big thing beside the fact that we are in the middle of the forest or the mountain, walking, climbing and going on with our adventure. I really like it, because we had enough time to do the treking and see those beautiful landscapes that make you say WOW. I remember seen the southern Patagonian ice field at the top of a mountain and it was like, dont know, i cant describe it, its like seen the sea but instead of water, you can see glaciers all over the mountains!
The journey was exhausting, because the distance we walked with our backpacks was like 300km, sometimes going up, sometimes going down, sometimes in a clear and good route, sometimes preaching for our lives hahaha, but it was really really really good, seen that you dont need a vehicule or something, that you can move and do a lot of things just with your foots its something that makes you think that maybe we dont need vehicules, just need time.
I hope that some day you will go there, you will see the Glaciers and the mountains, and the forests full of Lengas, before all desapear because the climate change and the participation of the human polution. Its isnt cheap but i think that its value more than all the money you could pay for it, also i think its just save the money for a thing that would change your life and make it more free.
See you, friends, remember the places that we have in here, also they are beautiful and we have to protect them, like the cajón del Maipo, Panul, quebrada de Macul and some other.
Bye :3
