A Day in Jurassic Park

Leaving Coihayque, the Carreterra Austral leads through Valdivian rainforests into the Queulat National Park with its huge trees and enormous ferns.
The jungle is so thick that you can´t see the ground and only hear the noise of the almost constant rain and the birds hiding in the green.

In this landscape you totally wouldn´t be surprised if an ancient dinosaur would suddenly appear on the narrow road in front of you and even the birds´cries resemble the noises that we all know from certain movies....

After hours of driving up and down, passing waterfalls and glaciers, we reached little Puerto Puyuhuapi on the fjord and I was glad to be back with some more humans ;)

General Carrera

The second day of our road trip we spent driving around a huge lake in a beautiful landscape. In Argentina it is called Lago Buenos Aires, but after crossing the border into Chile, they call it Lago General Carrera.

The gravel road is quite narrow and winds up and down along the shores of the lake, so you get very pretty views from a lot of different angles.

After hours and hours we finally reached the Carreterra Austral and left the General behind us to get to Villa Cerro Castillo - but before we left, we got a beautiful rainbow as a goodbye...

da wo der gletscher kalbt...

The legendary Glaciar Perito Moreno is part of the third-largest continental icefield and is simply huge...

Even in El Calafate you can see pieces of ice drifting on the nearby lake, so being really close to the majestic glacier and hearing big chunks of ice thundering into the icy blue water was a great experience!