Goodbye Argentina

We stayed in a lovely hotel for two nights before we got on  buses and boats to make our way across the Andes to Chile. This is the view from our room, and a beautiful shot of the lake, the first water leg of our trip.

Goodbye Lago Puelo

More fruit and farm

Home from the fourth fall

They are hard to see, but the last two pics are ancient Mapuche hieroglyphics. The Mapuche were forced out of this land, then later resettled it. By then, they had lost a lot of their original culture, so no one is sure what these say.

Fourth fall contd.

I really couldn't do the power of this fall justice, but it really was intense. You're in this towering canyon with an enormous fount of water crashing down in front of you. Nature is awesome.

Forth fall (My favorite)

Alejandro and Emilio took us to this fall. If you didn't know it was there, you'd never find it. We followed the river into a very narrow and steep canyon to this fall. My heart pounds just looking at this pic of G crossing one of many bridges like this one. He did great of course.

Third falls

G hanging with our hosts (aka the boys). Wind blowing the fall out from the wall above us. G and Bri enjoying.g the view. G helping out.

Vale la pena (third falls)

This translates to "worth the pain". Waterfalls truly are. Vilma also to us to this one. It's on Mapuche ( the indigenous people here) land, and not everyone gets to go there. Her friend Pablo invited us. The only way to get there is to boat across the river, so he came and got all five of us and rowed us across the river against the current. The path up was loose rock,  and pretty tricky. We didn't realize that we were going to the fall so Bri had flip flops on...

Second fall

Getting here was not easy and it ends in a beautiful canyon. One of two falls that our friend Vilma took us to.

This is Emilio

Emilio is Alejandros son. He is 8. He is a lot like G ;-)

First falls

And tadpole catching ( they were HUGE).

First fall

We did some climbing ...

A week of waterfalls

The last week in Lago Puelo we hiked to four separate water falls. This was the first.

Working the land

G really liked to hoe weeds and feed them to the sheep, pigs and bunnies.

More farm

Arbejas (broad beans), D-liciously sweet strawberries and frambuesas (raspberries) the mainstay crop of the farm. We sold all of the farm produce at the feria, but Olga is known for her frambuesas. There were always women waiting to buy them when we arrived to set up - especially her "frambuesas para dulce", the juiciest, almost too ripe ones that were used to make the most popular jam of the season and region.