Queulat National Park (another hike)

A magical park in Chilean Patagonia, along the Carretera Austral, is Queulat National Park.  The hikes, views, etc. were all wonderful: the link takes you to previous posts.Here are a few images and thoughts around our last hike before we moved south.We had looked for this trail before, and hadn't...

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Queulat National Park

I'm trying to find time to get back to our trip to Patagonia, among way too many distractions.Here's an view of a wonderfully powerful river, below the hanging glacier in Queulat National Park, in Chile, off the Carretera Austral.It's a wonderful place....

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Flowers, mosses, and lichens

There was an extraordinary diversity of mosses, lichens, and flowers in Chilean Patagon...

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Queulat National Park

This is a wonderful national park along the Carretera Austral in Chilean Patagonia. I've already posted an image of the hanging glacier (spectacular!)Along another trail, the Bosque Encantando (Enchanted Forest), the moss diversity (and that of other bryophytes) was nothing short of amazing.along the...

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Carretera Austral and Queulat National Park

I've gotten totally out of sequence (travel-wise) with my postings, but here are some wonderful images that evoke the experience of Chilean (Northern) Patagonia along the Carretera Austral.Hanging Glacier in Quelat National ParkThe hanging glacier is a stand-out hike (in Quelat National Park). ...

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Wonderful rivers

We saw so many wild and inspiring rivers and streams in Argentina and Chile (Northern Patagonia).I thought we lived in the land of waterfalls, mountain streams and wonderful rivers, but these were remarkab...

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Chilean Patagonia and the Carretera Austral

Jumping around in our travels again, here are some images from a hike in Chilean Patagonia (off the Carretera Austral, a historically gravel road now being regraded and paved through much of its length.)The Chilean side of Patagonia is much wetter than the Argentinian side, so the vegetation is a LOT...

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Returning to winter

It's been rainy, foggy, and dark since we returned from the Southern Hemisphere.Here with a diversity of mosses, ferns, etc.!We saw wonderful lakes and hanging glaciers (here in Quelat National Park in Chilean Patagonia).Not unexpected, but a bit of a transition, too, as our last few days had been in...

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