Day 5 - The Marbulous Caves

Last weekend, we went on a day long adventure to the Marble Caves. The Marble Caves are on Lago General Carrera (Lago means lake). We had to wake up really early because we were getting picked up in a mini bus at 7:30 in the morning. The bus ride was 4 hours long, but we had lots of stops along the way. Our tour guide and driver was Sebastiano.

The stops were mainly for photos, but one stop was because we picked up some of the wrong passengers. We needed to stop in a town called El Blanco, and waited for another mini bus to arrive to pick up the passengers we stole from them. Then we waited a bit longer for a taxi to arrive with the passengers we forgot to pick up.

Once we got to Puerto Rio Tranquilo (the town next to the lake), we had a bathroom break, then headed down to the lake. At the lake we were given life jackets and we hopped into a boat. The boat was pretty small, only fitting 10 people sitting and the two people leading the tour were standing.

The Marble Caves are an island that has been eroded away by the water in the lake. This creates caves and interesting patterns on the marble. We boated around the island for a while then we came back to land.

Then we had "lunch" (even though it was 4:50). It was three courses, the first was soup, the second was lamb, and the last was jelly. After that we had a shopping break, but we didn't buy anything. We then got back in the bus and headed home.

On the way back we spotted a native deer, so we pulled over to take photos. There was another bus and car that also stopped to take pictures. When we got home it was 11:00pm so we decided to got straight to sleep.