Day 6 - Queulat National Park

Last weekend on the Sunday, we went on another day long trip. This one was to Queulat National Park, and it also took 4 hours. We had to wake up at the same time because it was at 7:30 am. Sebastiano was our driver again and he arrived about 20 minutes early to give us seats at the front of the mini bus. However, we were not ready at this time and we told him to pick up the other passengers.

Once we were on the bus, we started driving. On the trip yesterday, we were driving on gravel roads most of the time because there was no pavement the way we drove. But on this trip we were only on gravel for about 40 minutes.

We stopped at a field of lupins (which is a type of plant) because we saw a fox really close to the side of the road. We watched it for a bit, but then it ran away. Once we got to the national park, we had a toilet break as usual then we regrouped. Then we went on a walk through the bushes and across a wobbly swing bridge that was over a rushing glacier-fed river.

At the end of the walk there was a lake with a boat that would take you to the hanging glacier that was there. However, the wait for the boat was at least one and a half hours so we couldn't do that.

We walked back along the trail and had a picnic lunch. There was sandwiches, eggs, cookies, salad and juice. After lunch we headed back and got home at around 8:30, much earlier than yesterday.